I’ve been using various contact managers but they all feel like sales tools, so I built Nametag to track the people I actually care about - friends, family, colleagues. It maps relationships, tracks birthdays, and visualizes your network as an interactive graph.

Self-hosting highlights:

  • Docker Compose setup - PostgreSQL, Redis, Next.js app. One command to start
  • No email service needed - Accounts auto-verify, works completely offline
  • Unlimited contacts - No artificial limits (hosted version caps free tier at 50)
  • Complete data ownership - Your relationship data stays on your infrastructure
  • Optional email - Can configure Resend if you want birthday/reminder emails
  • No phone-home - Runs entirely on your network if you want
  • AGPL-3.0 licensed - Full source access

Features:

  • Track people with flexible attributes (name, birthday, contact info, notes)
  • Map relationships between people (family, friends, colleagues, custom types)
  • Interactive D3.js network graph visualization
  • Custom groups for organizing contacts
  • Birthday reminders (if you configure email)
  • Dark mode, i18n (English and Spanish for now, but more are coming)
  • Mobile-responsive

Tech stack:

  • Next.js 16 (TypeScript)
  • PostgreSQL + Prisma ORM
  • Redis for rate limiting
  • D3.js for graph visualization
  • Tailwind CSS

Quick start:

git clone https://github.com/mattogodoy/nametag
cd nametag
# Edit .env with your secrets
docker-compose up -d

Database migrations run automatically on first start.

Access at localhost:3000.

There’s also a hosted version at https://nametag.one/ if you don’t want to self-host (helps fund development).

GitHub: https://github.com/mattogodoy/nametag

Happy to answer questions about the setup, architecture, or deployment!