epm

Extremely Personal Manager

A marketplace of starting points for your extremely personal software stack. Designed to be owned, customized, and run by you.

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Install, deploy shell, access from your phone.

Install epm

macOS / Linux

one-liner · preferred

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Slam-Dunk-Software/epm/main/install.sh | sh

macOS / Linux

from source

cargo install --git https://github.com/Slam-Dunk-Software/epm

Windows — not natively supported. Install WSL2 and run the curl installer from there.

Then

epm new todo                    # start from a harness
epm new todo my-notes           # optionally, give it a name
cd my-notes && cat CUSTOMIZE.md

Why Extremely Personal Software?

Truly private

Run everything on your own machine or a server you control. No ads, no annoying AI features, no telemetry, no price increases, no terms of service.

It's feasible

The build v.s. buy equation has been completely shaken up in the last few months. If you're a developer, or technically-inclined at all, you don't need to be nickel-and-dimed by SaaS anymore.

It's fun

Seriously, just try it. With a little bit of configuration, you might find that this is the most enjoyable way to work with software.

Vibe-upgradable

You own the source. Change the colors, the copy, the entire personality; rewrite it in another language, nothing's off-limits, no permission needed.

AI-native by design

Small, single-purpose codebases easily fit in a context window. No bloat from features you don't need. A growing collection of Claude Code skills makes it easy to jump right in.

You may have heard: "If it's free, you're the product." That's true for SaaS. But not for Extremely Personal Software. There are no big tech giants trying to make money off your personality here. This is the way out.

Escape the algorithm

Every major platform is optimizing for engagement, not your wellbeing. Your feed, your inbox, your search results, your recommendations: all shaped by what keeps you clicking, not what actually serves you. You didn't choose what surfaces to the top. An algorithm did, on behalf of an advertiser.

Extremely Personal Software is your way out. Your personal todo app doesn't know your demographics. Your notes don't have a recommendation engine. Your RSS reader shows you what you subscribed to, in the order things were published. Your news isn't curated to outrage you.

Think of it as an extension of de-Googling: not just moving your data somewhere else, but removing the incentive structure that quietly shapes what software does to you. Local-first, self-hosted software has one master: you.

The effect is subtle at first, then striking. Fewer rabbit holes. Less ambient anxiety. You use the software when you want to, for what you actually wanted to do. It's a small act of reclaiming your own mind.

The Ecosystem

epm services (process supervisor)

Built into the epm CLI. Start, stop, restart, and monitor your personal services. Auto-starts on login via a LaunchAgent or systemd unit.

observatory (watch your stack)

A web app (or TUI) for monitoring every service in your ecosystem, with SMS alerts when something goes down.

Skills

A growing collection of Claude Code slash commands for managing your EPS stack. Deploy, release, publish, and more.

Packages

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crm 2 version(s)

A minimal personal CRM EPS — contacts, interactions, follow-ups.

MIT nickagliano

daily_brief 2 version(s)

Texts you a daily summary of your todo list at a scheduled time.

MIT nickagliano

epm 20 version(s)

The CLI for the EPS ecosystem — publish, search, and install personal software packages.

MIT nickagliano

eps_docs 2 version(s)

Official EPS ecosystem documentation — concepts, ADRs, guides, and EPC reference.

MIT Slam-Dunk-Software 1 install

eps_mcp 3 version(s)

MCP server providing authoritative knowledge about the EPS ecosystem — philosophy, ADRs, packages, and harness design.

MIT nickagliano 10 installs

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