Helium
★ 8A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Asana, Notion
MIT LicenseFree Tier + Paid Plans6 Containers — 6 containers — moderate hosting footprintDocker · SourceNeeds MySQL
About
Helium Platform is the backend service for Helium, a student planner aimed at organizing classes, homework, grades, and notes. It provides the server-side functionality that powers the product,...
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Features
- API
- worker functionality
- admin site
- async tasks
- scheduled tasks
- offline development mode
- local AWS service emulation
- auto-generated API docs
Details
- Last Updated
- Aug 30, 2026
- Created
- Nov 20, 2017
- Install Methods
- dockersource
- Requirements
- DockerPython (>= 3.12)MySQL (>= 8)Redis (>= 7)VirtualenvLocalStack
- Authentication
- local
- API
- REST
- Backup & Export
- api-export
- Runtime / Stack
- PythonDocker
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: OptionalOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓6 Containers — moderate hosting footprintRuns as 6 containers
Docker Compose
6 services · database: mysql · infra: mysql, valkey · 4 unclassified (localstack, platform-resource, platform-api, platform-worker)
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (1 volume)
docker-compose.yml · @ 2ffba4c · scanned Jun 5, 2026
name: platform
services:
db:
image: mysql:8.4
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: "password"
MYSQL_DATABASE: "platform_dev-local"
MYSQL_USER: "helium"
MYSQL_PASSWORD: "helium"
ports:
- 3306:3306
healthcheck:
test: "mysql $$MYSQL_DATABASE -u$$MYSQL_USER -p$$MYSQL_PASSWORD -e 'SELECT 1;'"
timeout: 3s
retries: 20
cache:
image: valkey/valkey:8.1
ports:
- 6379:6379
# ...
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