Should I self-host Inoreader?
Miniflux is 20MB of Go that does the reading part of a $120/yr subscription. Bring your own opinions about minimalism.
Inoreader's rules/automation engine and article monitoring
Fancy dashboards — Miniflux is deliberately plain
follow feeds · read-state sync · keyboard-driven reading · integrations (save to wallabag/pocket-likes)
* Percent of the subscription price. Your time is priced at the slider's rate — $0/h ("my homelab time is free and I love it") is a legitimate position. Every number is derived from the record, never hand-written. Price source, checked 2026-08-07.
Runs comfortably on a Raspberry Pi.
CREATE_ADMIN only fires on first boot; set the env before, not after, or exec the CLI
# Miniflux — minimalist RSS reader (replaces Inoreader)
services:
miniflux:
image: miniflux/miniflux:latest
container_name: miniflux
restart: unless-stopped
depends_on:
miniflux-db:
condition: service_healthy
environment:
DATABASE_URL: postgres://miniflux:miniflux@miniflux-db/miniflux?sslmode=disable
RUN_MIGRATIONS: "1"
CREATE_ADMIN: "1"
ADMIN_USERNAME: admin
ADMIN_PASSWORD: changeme-now # throwaway test value
ports:
- "8084:8080"
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD", "/usr/bin/miniflux", "-healthcheck", "auto"]
interval: 5s
timeout: 5s
retries: 24
start_period: 15s
miniflux-db:
image: postgres:16-alpine
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: miniflux
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: miniflux
POSTGRES_DB: miniflux
volumes:
- miniflux-pg:/var/lib/postgresql/data
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U miniflux"]
interval: 5s
timeout: 5s
retries: 12
volumes:
miniflux-pg:
Want a guided install instead? caniselfhostit.com/inoreader has AI-agent prompts that assume a bare machine — that's their half of the stool, and it's good.
FULL TIMED LOG
# Timed setup log: Inoreader → miniflux **Protocol:** v1 · **Verified by:** zernonia · **Date:** 2026-08-10 **Assistant:** claude-code · **Environment:** containerized runner, 2 vCPU class, Docker 29.3 / Compose v5.1 ## Timeline | Step | Time | |---|---| | Read upstream docs, draft compose with healthcheck | ~11 min | | **Boot: all services healthy in 24 s (measured, `compose up --wait`)** | — | | Endpoint-level workflow check (login/health/API serve) + re-run from clean volumes | ~11 min | | **Total: ~35 min** | | Boot and endpoint checks are machine-verified; `setup_min` is the wall-clock total for this session including authoring, diagnosis and re-runs. Endpoint-level ≠ full human UI workflow — dispute anything that doesn't reproduce (CONTRIBUTING.md). ## What broke - CREATE_ADMIN only fires on first boot; set the env before, not after, or exec the CLI ## Verdict-relevant notes - Built-in healthcheck binary (`miniflux -healthcheck`) makes the compose gate trivial.