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Tidewell
Light self-hosted team projects and docs that run on one small server
- Score
- 34
- confidence 43
- Evidence
- 5
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 2
- named in sources
- First version
- 60 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2002
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: IT admins manage server configuration and updates, teams work long stretches on boards and pages, dense dashboards and many fields demand desktop workflow. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Instance health
Healthy38% RAM
About this appAI proposal
Tidewell is a project board and shared wiki that you run on your own server. It is built to work on modest hardware, so IT does not have to defend a budget for more CPU, RAM or storage just to keep a team tracker responsive.
It is made for mid-market companies whose IT staff look after a self-hosted collaboration tool. Install is one package, updates apply in one step and can be rolled back, and a health page tells the admin what needs attention before users notice.
Instead of piling on features, Tidewell keeps the daily flow short: boards, pages, mentions and a personal inbox. The aim is that people actually open it, rather than leaving it as a tool the company pays for and nobody uses.
- Tagline
- Team work tools that stay light on your servers.
- Voice
- PlainSteadyPractical
- Why this name
- A well is a steady source you own and keep close. Tide suggests a calm rhythm: the tool rises and falls with the team without straining.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
One-package install
Deploy on a single small server with a guided setup. No separate search cluster or database tuning needed to get started.
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Update in one step
Admins see pending updates, apply them in a maintenance window and roll back if something breaks.
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Resource health page
Shows CPU, memory and storage trends with plain advice, so upgrades are planned instead of forced by slowness.
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Boards and pages together
Tasks link to wiki pages and back, so plans and the documents behind them stay in one place.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Team work tools that stay light on your servers.
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. These tiers are a starting point to test, including whether buyers prefer a perpetual licence over yearly fees.
Team
$600 a year
- Up to 100 users
- One instance
- Updates and email support
Business
$2400 a year
- Up to 500 users
- SSO and audit log
- Updates and priority support
Perpetual
Contact us
- Licence for 500 to 5000 users
- Optional yearly support
- Contact us for a quote
Would you pay Team · $600 a year?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Users invite others. Team members invite colleagues and other departments to boards and pages inside the same company instance, so use spreads within a licensed company.
- Do they become customers?
- Invites grow seats inside one customer, not new customers. Test whether a department pilot converts to a company licence.
- First customers
- IT managers at companies of 100 to 500 staff who run a self-hosted tracker and wiki on ageing servers and have little budget for upgrades.
- Where to reach them
- Sysadmin communities: Share an upgrade and sizing guide in forums and Hacker News threads where admins discuss neglected instances.
- Direct outreach: Contact IT leads in mid-sized firms with a free migration trial.
- First milestone
- Five paying companies of 100 to 500 staff, each moving one live team off an existing tracker within 90 days.
Why people already pay for this
- AI inferenceCompanies running on-premise instances of these tools avoid upgrading infrastructure and hardware to contain costs
- Public claimOn-premise software instances are chronically neglected and go without updates
- Public claimHigh ongoing costs for hosting and infrastructure make companies reluctant to invest in these tools
- Public claimUsers remain disengaged from company-provided tools despite significant spending on them
- Public claimCompanies must dedicate employees to manage on-premise software installations
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Self-hosted packagingContainer image and installer with offline licence keyCustomers run it on their own servers, so the product must install and license without our cloud.
- This app · Embedded databaseBundled Postgres with built-in searchAvoids a separate search cluster, keeping the footprint small.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialThe material shows only public claims about neglected on-premise tools. Buyers may already be moving to cloud, so demand for new on-premise software is unproven.
- TechnicalShipping to customer servers means many environments, upgrade paths and support cases for a small team, unlike a single hosted app.
- CommercialReplacing an entrenched tracker is hard. Without strong import, teams may not switch.
- RegulatorySecurity reviews, patch duty and vulnerability disclosure for self-hosted software add ongoing work.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.