GLOU Simply precious
🔓  Free & open source · self-hosted · Docker

Your cellar, fully yours.

Glou is a self-hosted asset manager for luxury collections — wines, spirits, bubbles, and cigars. Visual recognition, expert data, and peak maturity indicators in one stack you fully own.

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Self-hosted
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Asset types tracked
MIT
Licensed
Why Glou

Top 5 highlights

Zero-effort intake

Snap a label photo. OCR pre-fills the details instantly.

Shared inventory

Every user on the instance shares one collective cellar — built for families, roommates, and wine clubs.

Peak maturity alerts

Get notified when a bottle enters its drinking window before it's too late.

Fully self-hosted

A Docker Compose stack (Node.js · Next.js · PostgreSQL) you run on your own machine.

Guest sharing

Scoped, revocable links to let friends or family browse (or help stock) part of your cellar.

See it for real

A cellar you'll actually enjoy browsing

Shared inventory dashboard
Shared inventory dashboardRich cards, faceted filters, and live stock stats.
Item detail with traceability
Item detail & traceabilityTactile fill level, tasting journal, and per-field history with one-click rollback.
Analytics and terroir dashboard
Analytics & TerroirValuation, movement flows, drinking-window urgency, and a geographic view of your cellar.
Run it yourself

Quick start

1

Configure

Copy the env file and set three mandatory values — none of them has a safe default.

cp .env.example .env
⚠️ DB_PASSWORD, JWT_SECRET (openssl rand -base64 48), and CONFIG_ENCRYPTION_KEY (openssl rand -hex 32). Running with placeholder values makes all user sessions trivially forgeable.
2

Launch

Docker pulls the pre-built images and starts the stack. No compilation required.

docker compose up -d
ℹ️ The AI label scan is optional and off by default (~9 GB disk, ~3 GB RAM). Enable it with docker compose --profile scan up -d.
3

Create your account

Open localhost:3000 and click Register. The first account created is automatically granted admin privileges.

💡 To update later: docker compose pull && docker compose up -d
Where it's headed

Roadmap

Recently added

  • Expert / Collector Mode — sommelier-grade tasting grid, appellation & cask fields, humidor panel.
  • Express label scanning — self-hosted, CPU-only vision model pre-fills name, producer, category, vintage.
  • Guided food pairing — ranked shortlist from your own cellar with one-click "drink it now".
  • Smart consumption plan — a personal drink-now / drink-soon list.
  • Wishlist & budget tracking with deal alerts and spending envelopes.
  • Trusted offline mode with auto-sync and conflict resolution.
  • World map, heatmap & filters.
  • Scheduled backups & data portability.

Next up

  • Smart data engine — auto-enrichment via Vivino and Whiskybase, backed by a local cache.
  • Predictive analytics for collection valuation.
  • Advanced IoT integration for live cellar temperature and humidity monitoring.
  • Native mobile companion application.