I’m happy to answer — I am one of the developers of Safebox. First question: the store. It’s not finished yet, but if you visit our original gitea site (https://git.format.hu/safebox/default-applications-tree) and check the template examples, you’ll see that any application that can run in Docker can be added. I will soon move this repository to GitHub so it can be freely forked and you can add your own. You can already try adding one on an earlier (uglier) interface that we experimented with: http://<the IP address or hostname of your Safebox>:8080/manage_old.html. Click Settings, and the first menu item is the option to add another repository.

Second question: remote access is not subscription-based, and it does not require VPN. If you have a public IP address, install Safebox there, register a domain name somewhere (point it to your IP address as an A record, wildcard is also possible), and the proxy service will work. (But be aware: Safebox will also be accessible on port 8080, and there is no authentication protection for now!)

Third question: I wasn’t very familiar with Podman when I started working on this (I only had to learn it for the RedHat exam…)

Alright so this is a feature that a homelab user can actually use - backups. Could you expand on how you will be managing this feature / plan to implement it once it is offered?

Very good question, the backup/restore processes are under development. We would like to use the Borg backup for and prepared the backup services for access each others both local network and vpn network. You can find it takeing a look at the source code of the framework-scheduler repository (https://github.com/safeboxnetwork/framework-scheduler/blob/main/scripts/scheduler/entrypoint.sh # it is started at line 1339)

I mentioned earlier that your branding seems to emphasize security - but all I’m seeing is mention of existing security features inherent in the software being wrapped. Does your team do additional tuning for security? Do they have experience in infrastructure security, hardening systems, or the like? To be clear I just want to better understand the branding and what is being offered.

Hi, I am one of developers from Safebox and would like to answer your security related questions: you have right, our Safebox platform contains only a HAproxy loadbalancer and Nginx backend proxies to route your domain based TCP packets and does not responsible for security of the 3rd party providers applications. That means Safebox is not more secure as the installed 3rd party applications, because if the application you install isn’t secure or you don’t take care of your passwords, then your data could still be stolen. But it does provide security in the sense that you know where your data is, and you know that it belongs to you.

In addition we plan to develop a ‘homeguard’ plugin for Safebox to manage accessing the main platform and set individualy permissions via backend proxies to access the deployed 3rd party applications.