Codidact Qpixel by codidact

Q&A-based community knowledge-sharing software

railsq-and-ahacktoberfestco-design
Verdict 76/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty 1 open CVE Last release 2 months ago

Self-host Codidact Qpixel on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
76 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
438
71 forks

About Codidact Qpixel

From the project's README at github.com/codidact/qpixel. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

Rails-based version of our core software, powering codidact.com. Currently under active development towards MVP. Table of Contents Features Community Contributing Installation License Features Supports multiple communities within a single installation Allows multiple categories within each community And multiple post types (Q&A, Articles, ...) within each category Voting on content and sorting based on a modified score that accounts for controversy Abilities/privileges based on activity Content written in Markdown with live preview Support for MathJax, image uploads, custom content lice

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
90
maturity
90
community
84
security
85
sustainability
100
adoption
23

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 438 github.com/codidact/qpixel
GitHub forks 71 github.com/codidact/qpixel

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age6.3 yearssince Jan 2020
Last commit6 days agoMay 1, 2026
Releases shipped15last: 2 months ago
Security policySECURITY.mddeclared by maintainers
Funding links2declared by maintainers

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

Security advisories

1 known advisories tracked via OSV.dev. 1 currently open without a documented fix. Most recent: CVE-2025-22138.

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Ready to self-host Codidact Qpixel?

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