hcengineering/platform

Huly is an open-source, all-in-one project management platform that bundles tools normally spread across multiple paid services: project issue tracking (like Jira or Linear), team chat (like Slack), documents and notes (like Notion), HR and applicant tracking, and CRM (customer relationship management). Instead of paying for and context-switching between four or five subscriptions, a team can run Huly on their own server and manage projects, conversations, hiring pipelines, and customer contacts in one place. Under the hood, Huly is built on the Huly Platform, an open-source TypeScript framework designed to accelerate building business applications. The framework handles data synchronization, real-time collaboration, and pluggable applications, which is how the repository manages to ship multiple distinct tools from a single codebase. Self-hosting uses Docker and Docker Compose, and the repository targets Node.js v22. Teams would use Huly when they want a self-hosted alternative to the cluster of Linear, Jira, Slack, and Notion, either for privacy, cost, or control reasons. It is best suited for software development teams comfortable setting up and maintaining a Docker-based server, rather than non-technical users expecting a hosted service. The tech stack is TypeScript on Node.js, with Docker for deployment.