Intake workspace for designing Ananth's home lab: apps, agents, storage, NAS, IoT, and operating model. Answer what you can, skip what you can't — Dab uses these inputs to draft the architecture and shopping list.
Once you've filled enough above, Dab/Claude will spin up four parallel research streams and return with a recommended architecture, a self-hosted shortlist, a NAS decision memo, and an end-to-end operating plan tailored to your answers.
Docker Compose, Proxmox, Pi cluster, hybrid MacBook + Pis, NAS-first, and cloud/home hybrid via Tailscale — evaluated against your reliability tiers, complexity tolerance, and hardware on hand.
Postgres + admin UI, Supabase self-host vs alternatives (PocketBase, Appwrite, NocoDB, Directus), MinIO/Garage, Coolify/Dokploy/CapRover/Kamal, Caddy/Traefik, Uptime Kuma/Grafana/Prometheus, Immich, Jellyfin, Syncthing/Nextcloud, Home Assistant + MQTT + ESPHome, Gitea/Forgejo, n8n/Activepieces, and Ollama only if your hardware supports it.
Synology/QNAP vs DIY NAS vs mini PC + DAS vs repurposed MacBook + externals vs current-drive interim — compared on India cost, data safety, expandability, noise/power, ops ease, backups, photo/media experience, and agent/project utility.
Tailscale mesh, domains and reverse proxy, full service inventory, backups, secrets, monitoring, agent access model, deploy flow, storage map, security tiers, documentation, Notice Board integration, and a Dab control surface.