🚀 Your Data. Your Server. Your Agents. Zero SaaS Bills.

💸 The SaaS Tax Is Real

Let's do some quick math. 🧮

• 🗂️ Trello for tasks — $10/user/mo
• 📝 Notion for docs — $10/user/mo
• 📧 Gmail + Google Workspace — $7/user/mo
• ⚡ Zapier for automation — $30+/mo
• 🤖 An AI chatbot tool — $20+/user/mo

A 10-person team is spending $400–700/month just to manage work. That's $5,000–8,000/year on tools that don't even talk to each other.

Five tabs. Five bills. Five places where context goes to die. 💀

What if you replaced all of it with one thing you run yourself?

That's HiveOps. 🐝

🧠 What Is HiveOps?

HiveOps is an open-source, AI-powered company operating system. It's not another chatbot wrapper. It's not a toy project. It's a full-stack application that handles:

And it runs in one Docker container on your own server. 🐳

🔥 The Killer Feature: AI Agents That Actually Work

Most "AI tools" are chatbots. You type a question, they type an answer. That's not automation. That's a search engine with extra steps. 😤

HiveOps agents are different.

🏢 Each department gets its own agent

📣 Marketing Agent → Custom system prompt, marketing context
💻 Engineering Agent → Custom system prompt, dev context
🎧 Support Agent → Custom system prompt, support context

⚡ They execute tasks autonomously

Assign a task to an agent. It runs it. Not "suggests next steps." Actually runs it.

Here's the execution loop:

📥 Task assigned to agent
  → 🤖 Agent picks it up
  → ▶️ Executes
  → ✅ Success? Mark complete.
  → ❌ Failed? 🔄 Retry (3x, exponential backoff)
  → 💀 Still failing? Dead letter queue + notify the creator

That's production-grade execution logic. Not a demo. 💪

🔗 Agents can delegate to each other

Complex workflow? Agent A can delegate a sub-task to Agent B. Your engineering agent can hand off a deployment verification to the ops agent. Chain them together.

⚙️ Workflow Automation Without the Zapier Tax

Zapier charges $30+/month for basic automation. HiveOps has it built in. Free. 💸

How it works:

Triggers 🔀 → Conditions 🎯 → Actions ▶️

Build your ops logic once. It runs forever. 🔁 No per-action billing. No "premium tier required."

📧 Real Email, Not a Placeholder

A lot of "all-in-one" tools skip email. HiveOps doesn't. 🙅

• 📬 Full inbox — sent, drafts, starred, labels
• 🔄 IMAP polling — automatically pulls new mail and notifies you
• 📤 SMTP outbound — works with Gmail or custom SMTP servers
• ✍️ AI drafts replies — the agent reads the email and drafts a response
• 🔍 Search — find anything across your inbox

It's not a mock. It's actual email integration. 💯

🛠️ The Tech Stack (For the Builders)

HiveOps isn't a spaghetti project. Here's what's under the hood:

🖥️ Backend — Node.js + Express

server/
├── src/
│   ├── config/
│   │   ├── db.js              🗄️ Dual SQLite/PostgreSQL adapter
│   │   ├── logger.js          📋 Pino structured logging
│   │   └── migrate.js         🔄 Versioned migrations
│   ├── middleware/
│   │   ├── auth.js            🔐 JWT + role-based access
│   │   ├── rateLimit.js       🛡️ Brute-force protection
│   │   └── validate.js        🧹 Input sanitization
│   ├── routes/                🛣️ 12 API route modules
│   └── services/
│       ├── ai-engine.js       🧠 LLM integration
│       ├── email-real.js      📧 SMTP + IMAP
│       ├── execution-loop.js  🔄 Retry + backoff + DLQ
│       ├── scheduler.js       ⏰ DB-persisted cron
│       ├── workflows.js       ⚙️ Rule engine
│       └── notifications.js   🔔 Socket.IO broadcast
└── __tests__/                 🧪 58 tests (Jest + Supertest)

🎨 Frontend — Next.js 14 (App Router)

web/
├── app/                       📄 12 pages
├── components/                🧩 Shared UI
└── lib/                       🔌 API client + auth

🗄️ Database Flexibility

Same API, two backends. Switch with one env var. 🔄

14 tables: users, departments, agents, tasks, task_comments, messages, knowledge_base, workflows, workflow_logs, emails, notifications, uploads, scheduled_tasks, schema_migrations 📊

🧠 LLM Agnostic

Works with any OpenAI-compatible API:

• 🟢 OpenAI
• 🟡 Ollama (local models)
• 🔵 Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint

No vendor lock-in. No API key required — simulated fallback mode works out of the box. 📦

⚡ Setup: 60 Seconds

# 1️⃣ Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/mamoor123/hiveops.git && cd hiveops

# 2️⃣ Copy the env file
cp .env.example .env

# 3️⃣ Generate a secret
openssl rand -base64 32  # paste into .env as JWT_SECRET

# 4️⃣ Launch everything 🚀
docker-compose up --build

Postgres + API + Frontend. One command. 🎯

📊 The Comparison That Matters

You own the code. You own the data. You own the infrastructure. 👑

🎯 Who Is This For?

• 🚀 Startups that can't afford $500/mo in SaaS tools before they even have revenue
• 🌍 Remote teams that want one platform instead of five disconnected ones
• 👩‍💻 Developers who prefer self-hosted over vendor-dependent
• 😤 Anyone tired of the SaaS tax and ready to take control

📜 Open Source. No Strings.

HiveOps is fully open source. No "open core" trickery. No "premium features" behind a paywall. No "contact sales for pricing." 🚫

git clone https://github.com/mamoor123/hiveops.git

⭐ Star it. 🍴 Fork it. 🚀 Deploy it. 👑 Own it.

🔗 github.com/mamoor123/hiveops

🐝 Stop renting your tools. Start owning them.

Tags: opensource, selfhosted, ai, productivity, devops

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