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by hcengineering

Huly is an all-in-one team platform that combines project and issue tracking, chat, a CRM, HR tools and recruitment tracking in one system. This repository is the frozen source code, and development has moved to a new repository.

Worth a lookEstablished, with a few things to check (listed below).

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Stars
28k +6 a day
Licence
EPL-2.0
Runs on
A small server
Setup
Technical
Language
TypeScript
Age
1914 days

What you can do with it

  • Track projects and issues with a team, in place of a separate issue tracker
  • Manage customers in a built-in CRM and run team chat alongside it
  • Handle recruitment and HR records using the applicant tracking and HR modules

Could replace

  • Linear
  • Jira
  • Notion

Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.

Make money with it

A freelancer could set up and maintain self-hosted team workspaces for small companies as a paid service.

An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.

Ways a business could use it

  • Replace several paid subscriptions for project tracking, team chat and CRM with one self-hosted system
  • Run client projects and sales follow-up from a single place, keeping data on your own server

Can you use it commercially?

Usable in paid products, but changes to its own files must be shared under the same licence.

Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.

Getting it running

This repository is a developer build needing Node.js 20.11.0, Docker, Rush and a GitHub token. For simple hosting, the README points to the separate huly-selfhost Docker project.

Follow the official instructions in the project README.

Things to check

  • This repository is frozen and no longer maintained; development has moved to Platform-Collective/platform
  • The hosted Huly service has shut down, so self-hosting is the only option
  • EPL-2.0 licence has copyleft conditions if you modify and distribute the code
  • Building from this repository is complex; the self-host project is easier

Checked 29 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.

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