For those who’ve never heard of us:
Libre Closet is a free, open-source, self-hosted wardrobe organizer - with client side garment image background removal. Catalog your clothes, upload photos, build outfits, and access everything from your phone as an offline-ready PWA - all on your own server.
We at Lazztech LLC have crafted and engineered this project with care and intention to be as easy to self-host as possible. It defaults to local SQLite storage and local file storage. It has optional auth/multi user support.
docker run -p 3000:3000 -v wardrobe-data:/data ghcr.io/lazztech/libre-closet:latest
Please feel free to ask any questions you may have, whether about the development choices we’ve made, or about the product itself. We’re excited to continue to build a community around this project.
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For those already familiar, I’d like to share some progress updates.
First, I’d like to introduce Leolazz, who’s joined the project as our 3rd core maintainer, alongside ShoshannaTM, and myself!
Second, I’d like to share gratitude for the warm and supportive reception Libre Closet has continued to receive. It sincerely makes my day when we get a new feature request or comment about how users are enjoying it. Since the first post, we’ve gotten 234 Github stars, over 10.8k docker image pulls, multiple community PRs contributed, and many helpful issues filed.
Latest News - Significant Performance Improvements:
We've refactored the server resulting in nearly a 2x throughput increase, almost half the latency, and the lighthouse speed score has gone from 68/100 to 99/100.
| Metric | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Requests/sec | 1,188.10 | 2,091.64 | +76.05% |
| Latency avg | 7.90 ms | 4.24 ms | –46.33% |
| Latency p50 | 7.00 ms | 4.00 ms | –42.86% |
| Latency p99 | 18.00 ms | 11.00 ms | –38.89% |
| Throughput | 26.39 MB/sec | 44.30 MB/sec | +67.87% |
Latest Releases:
- v0.3.2 - June 09, 2026: Added background removal toggle for garment image uploads.
- v0.3.1 - May 26, 2026: Refactored server resulting in nearly a 2x throughput increase and almost half the latency.
- v0.3.0 - May 21, 2026: Garment image background touch up tool
- v0.2.5 - May 1, 2026: Added option to disable register functionality
- v0.2.4 - April 28, 2026: Fix garment photo upload cropping
For full details refer to the CHANGELOG.
We can’t wait for everyone to try it out, and we hope you enjoy v0.3.2 of Libre Closet!
Public: https://librecloset.lazz.tech/
GitHub: https://github.com/lazztech/Libre-Closet
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How do you intend to monetise this?
At this point we don’t have a concrete plan, but for the sustainability of the project I would like to monetize it eventually.
As of now we do have a ko-fi donation page set up and linked in the repo though.
What I do know for sure though is that it’s important to me that the selfhosted deployments always be maintained as full featured as possible. I’m a selfhoster myself and have been doing so for many years. I’ve thought a lot about this subject and really don’t want to f it up.
I really like the Bitwarden, Immich, or ghost blog model. “Want to use our convenient cloud hosted instance? Toss us a few bucks a year to support development. Otherwise selfhost it and you’ll still get the same full experience… it just might take a bit of work.”
I’m entertaining some kind of paid plan for professional stylists on the public cloud instance.
The selfhosters will always be our core audience though. It takes actual effort to selfhost and invest in open source, so those who do so will remain first and foremost. And ideally this good will may result in positive recommendations for our cloud offerings down the road to those less inclined to self host.
It occurs to me (who dresses in shorts and a t-shirt) a good market that might be worth exploring would be costumers, like on Broadway, Theater, etc who has a warehouse of wardrobes, and needs to pick some things that convey a certain atmosphere for the performance ... maybe theme based Operas. Runway model manager,. people in charge of choosing wardrobes for public performances.
I sincerely hope your endeavor is successful and you reap the rewards.
That’s a really good suggestion, thank you for your support 🙏
Make millions bro. Come back and tell us all about your adventures.
Perhaps they are not?
Why would you think that?
https://lazz.tech/about
PNW? People's new world? Pepes new wardrobe? This doesn't compute in my mind for any countries in the world.
Pacific Northwest (Seattle)