Get started

Try it

The quickest way to see Sideporch is to run it on your own computer. Nothing you do here is hard to undo: all data stays in one place you can delete afterwards.

With Docker

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -v sideporch:/data ghcr.io/niklas-heer/sideporch

Then open http://localhost:8080. Your data lives in the sideporch volume; docker volume rm sideporch removes it after you’ve stopped the container.

With Homebrew

On macOS and Linux:

brew install niklas-heer/tap/sideporch
sideporch

Then open http://127.0.0.1:8080. Sideporch keeps its data in sideporch-data in the directory you started it from.

Your first minutes

1. Create the admin account. The first person to open Sideporch creates it. That’s you.
2. Invite someone. Open People in the sidebar and create an invite link. Anyone with the link can join; nobody needs an email address.
3. Look around. Start a channel, reply in a thread, add a poll with /poll Lunch? | Pizza | Tacos, or press ⌘ K (Ctrl K) to jump anywhere.

To keep it and use it with other people, install it on a server.