doory

Doory is a Canva-style design editor you can run yourself: posters, social posts, slides, resumes, business cards and short animations, exported as PNG, PDF, MP4 or GIF. There's no paid plan, no watermark, and no account needed to start. A free hosted copy runs at doory.art.

Self-hosting is a Docker Compose stack: a Django API, a real-time server for live co-editing, Postgres and nginx. Set two secrets, bring it up, create an admin. Then seed it, because a new site starts empty: fonts, icons, the background-removal model and templates are each separate download commands. Brand kits, share links, comments and version history all come free.

Solo: use the hosted site. Small teams: self-host to keep designs on your server. Larger teams: not yet. Sign-in is email or Google, no SAML or OIDC, and ten starter templates is a long way from Canva.

The catch is the license. It's the Attribution Assurance License, not MIT, and the author reads it as requiring a visible "Doory by Siam" credit in the running app for anyone who hosts it for users. Fine internally, a dealbreaker for white-labeling. The NOTICE file even calls the code MIT, contradicting the LICENSE. And it's five days old.