Piotr
Szaran

A self-hosted household recipe manager with serving scaling, meal planning, grocery lists, AI recipe import, and MCP access, built quickly on top of the Pior Labs platform.

Migrating my Raspberry Pi media stack to an upgradeable OptiPlex, adding photo storage and a central dashboard, and using the same service addresses at home and remotely.

A private, self-hosted household platform with shared authentication, design, data, networking, and deployment infrastructure for independently deployed productivity tools.

A deployed, self-hosted household finance tracker with PDF statement imports, manual transaction review, spending dashboards, central SSO, and a read-only MCP server.

Converting a decade-old Dell OptiPlex into a headless home server for self-hosting on hardware I already owned.

A rebuilt personal portfolio using Astro, MDX, and Tailwind.

Discord bot that helps organize gaming meetups by creating groups, proposing events, and collecting RSVPs directly in chat. It was containerized for deployment and self-hosted on my own VPS, with reminder messages to help players keep track of upcoming events.

I built my wedding website as both a personal project and a serious test of agentic coding. Designed for around 200 guests, it included custom RSVP flows, an admin dashboard, guest management tools, and a strong focus on mobile performance and reliability.

A desktop tool for submitting IT support requests with issue details, attachments, and basic device diagnostics.

Internal order and inventory management system for tracking hardware assets from purchase to deployment. It supports ordering, receiving, assigning, returning, and administering user access.

Pior Labs Cookbook is a self-hosted household recipe manager with serving scaling, AI-assisted meal planning, generated grocery lists, and AI recipe import, built on top of the Pior Labs platform.

Moving my Raspberry Pi media stack to a Marketplace OptiPlex with a 1 TB SSD and 32 GB of RAM, then adding photos, a dashboard, and consistent service URLs.

Pior Labs is the private, self-hosted platform that grew around my household productivity tools. This is the story of how one finance tracker led to shared authentication, a design system, and a complete deployment foundation.

FinLens is a deployed, self-hosted personal finance tracker I built as a better alternative to managing household finances in Excel. This post covers the decisions and infrastructure changes that turned it into part of my wider Pior Labs platform.

Payload CMS was overkill. Here's why I went with Astro and files in a repo.