Hey r/selfhosted Lemmy crowd,
I built TravStats because I wanted to log my flights without handing my travel history to MyFlightradar24, App in the Air, or whatever SaaS-of-the-month. Started as a weekend project, has grown into something I actually use daily.
What it does
- Booking email parser — drop your Lufthansa / BA / Berge & Meer / whatever confirmation mail in and it auto-fills the flight via local LLM (Ollama, gemma3:12b works great). No manually typing 200 flights.
- 3D globe of all your routes (deck.gl + MapLibre), plus heatmap, hexagon, arc and time-slider modes — watch your flights build up over the years
- Boarding pass scanner as a fallback (OCR) for the cases where you only have the PDF
- Stats, achievements, certificates for the gamification fans
- Cruise tracking with sea-route rendering (because flights aren't the only travel) (Comming Soon)
- DE / EN UI
Stack
- Single Docker image, Postgres sidecar
- Node + TypeScript backend, React + Vite frontend
- AGPL-3.0
- Optional: Ollama on a separate box for the parser (CPU-only is fine, gemma3:12b on a Mac mini works)
Install
- Unraid: in Community Apps, search "TravStats" → one-click
- Anywhere else:
docker compose up -dwith the example compose file in the repo - No external account, no telemetry, JWT in HttpOnly cookies, secrets auto-generated on first boot
Links
- GitHub: https://github.com/Abrechen2/TravStats
- Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/abrechen2/travstats
- GHCR:
ghcr.io/abrechen2/travstats:latest
Still actively developing — currently on v1.2.1. Happy about feedback, issues, feature requests. If you give it a spin and the parser eats your booking confirmation cleanly, I'd love to hear it; if it doesn't, even more so.
How much of the codebase do you write by hand?
The core started as a personal tool I wrote by hand years ago — basic CRUD, my own flight list, ugly but mine. The polish, the visualisations, the parser, the multi-domain stuff, all the things that make it actually shareable — that's where AI assistance (Claude Code) kicked in. I drive the architecture and review every change; the AI does a lot of the typing. Without it I'd never have gotten this from "works on my machine" to "you can run it too".
One more thing: I have dyslexia, so all written text in the app, the docs and posts like this one gets cleaned up with AI help. That's not a workaround I'm hiding — it's the only reason the README is readable and the UI strings are consistent. Same principle as the code: I decide what it should say, the AI helps me say it clearly.
Oh I'm not saying any use of ai is immediately bad, but as a dev I would want the author of the stuff I use to actually understand the whole codebase. I'll try it out when I get some time to deploy it.
Ahh, Okay i understand what you mean. I try of course to understand how everything in the app works. Most of comments tha start like your first end with lot of hate, beacause of the use of AI, thats why i am more carefull and a bit anti.
Yeah I mean you come here to promote your app and don't even write your comments using your own fingers and we won't hear from you again after this thread because you never intended to really be a part of the community - just get some app ideas from us.
It's just take take take.
No wonder people react badly.
Didn't down vote. I don't have a dog in your hunt but....What's he taking?
Hey, I understand and see the Problems my Self in every Community with the AI Apps.
But this one is not a simple Vibecoded AI Shit, and I really try to get a really nice good working App.
And I stay on it, and want to do more. I am working currently on getting it to do Multi Domain Tracking, so not only flights.
But it’s your opinion, so feel free to ignor me… 😀