Our principles

Your digital home. Owned by you.

kombify is built to help you make more of your digital life: your photos, files, passwords, media and smart home, run to the standard a business takes for granted, at home and in the cloud. Everything we build follows a few convictions.

Let's embrace the future.

What we believe

Five convictions behind everything we build.

  1. Your digital home deserves business standards.

    Access control, backups before changes, a way back and one place to manage it all belong in the product, not on a checklist you have to work through.

  2. At home and in the cloud. One digital home.

    A modern homelab lives in both and takes the best of both. You decide what runs where, and it all still feels like one home.

  3. Simple to use. Open to build on.

    The household gets its wish fulfilled, the tinkerer gets everything open. The core is useful on its own, without AI and without a cloud connection.

  4. Your digital life. Taken care of.

    Kubi and a team of specialist agents are built to take work off your hands, from paperwork to your homelab. Always optional, never a requirement.

  5. Own your setup. Choose your level of care.

    Your services run as the original open-source software, on hardware you choose. You decide how much help you want, and you can take everything with you.

What we hold ourselves to

We don't rebuild great software. We make it yours.

The open-source world already has outstanding tools for photos, files, passwords, media and smart homes. kombify picks the best of them, sets them up properly and keeps them running, so you get their full value without becoming a system administrator.

  1. Curate instead of reinvent

    Where a mature open-source project solves a problem well, we use it instead of writing a weaker copy. We compare, test and choose, and we explain why.

  2. Installed is not the same as ready

    A tool only helps when it is configured, secured, reachable and backed up. That last mile is our work, so every service starts in a state you can rely on.

  3. Get the best out of every tool

    We connect services where it makes sense and use the features their makers built, instead of hiding them behind a lowest common denominator.

  4. Respect for the projects behind it

    We name every tool and its makers, honour its license and link to the project's website and documentation. The credit belongs to the people who build it.

  5. Help the developers

    Many projects live on donations, sponsorships or paid editions. Where a project offers a way to support it, we point you there, because good open-source software needs people who keep it alive.

  6. Open, and yours to leave

    Your services run as the original open-source software, in standard formats, on hardware you choose. You can change, extend or take over your setup at any time.

Behind kombify

Kombiverse Labs builds kombify from Paderborn.

Marcel Kombächer founded Kombiverse Labs to give every household a digital home that runs as reliably as a well-run company's IT and still belongs entirely to the people who live in it. kombify is that idea, built together with the open-source projects it stands on.

Technology can do wonderful things. Let's build them together.

Marcel Kombächer Founder, Kombiverse Labs

The best tools already exist.

Our job is to make them usable for everyone who wants a digital home of their own. Tell us which tool you are missing.

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