Self-Hosting the prompts.chat Prompt Library Behind Traefik and Tailscale
A developer describes deploying f/prompts.chat, the open-source prompt library formerly known as Awesome ChatGPT Prompts, on a private homelab to avoid leaking internal prompts to third-party services. The setup uses Docker Compose with Traefik as a reverse proxy for automatic HTTPS, and restricts access through a Tailscale network with ACL rules and firewall changes that block public exposure. The author reports that concurrent edits caused SQLite lock errors, which were resolved by enabling Write-Ahead Logging, and that an early misconfiguration exposed the Traefik dashboard, which was indexed by Shodan within hours. The post lists performance figures such as sub-80ms warm responses and roughly 235MB combined memory use. It notes the approach is unsuitable for distributed teams without a VPN, multi-region replication, or strict compliance audit needs.
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