Overview
The Donetick tasks and chores dashboard
The Donetick web UI showing a household task list with recurring daily, weekly and monthly chores, priorities and a calendar overview, served behind nginx with a per-instance admin login.
The Donetick tasks and chores dashboard
A task detail view
Secure per-instance login
This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.
Overview
Donetick is a free and open-source, self-hosted task and chore manager for individuals, households and teams. It handles recurring schedules, assignments, points and shared circles or groups, giving you a private alternative to hosted chore and to-do apps that you run and control entirely in your own AWS account. This AMI is delivered fully installed and secured, so a working task manager is reachable in your browser within minutes of launch.
Why This Image vs a Manual Install
This image eliminates the manual binary download and checksum verification, systemd unit authoring, reverse-proxy configuration and credential hardening that a from-scratch install requires. Donetick signs user sessions with a JWT secret that must be unique per deployment; a shared secret baked into an image would let anyone forge sessions on another customer's instance. This image never ships that secret. What normally takes several steps across binary setup, service configuration and security hardening is completed for you at image build time. Launch the instance, read your unique administrator credential and sign in.
Application Stack
Donetick is a single self-contained Go binary that bundles the web application; there is no runtime interpreter to manage and no external database to provision. Its datastore is an embedded SQLite database, keeping the whole appliance self-contained on a single node. The server binds to the loopback interface only and is fronted by an nginx reverse proxy on port 80. systemd starts the application and the web server on boot and restarts them on failure.
Security Hardening
This image follows a defence-in-depth approach:
- Network isolation: the application binds exclusively to the loopback interface and a host firewall rule drops any external traffic to the application port; only the nginx reverse proxy is exposed
- Unique signing secret per instance: a fresh 48-byte JWT session secret is generated on each instance's first boot and is never baked into the image, so sessions cannot be forged across deployments
- No default or shared credentials: a cryptographically random administrator password is generated on first boot and written only to a root-only file; no default account survives into the image
- Closed registration by default: after the single administrator is seeded, open self-registration is disabled so the appliance ships closed; re-enabling it is a documented one-line change
- Least privilege: the application runs as an unprivileged system user with NoNewPrivileges, ProtectSystem and ProtectHome set
- Automatic restart: systemd monitors both the application and nginx and restarts them on failure
Buyers requiring formal compliance documentation should contact cloudimg to discuss specific requirements.
Concrete Use Cases
- Household chore coordination: A family sharing recurring cleaning, bins and pet-care tasks across a circle, with rotating assignments, due dates and points to keep everyone accountable
- Small-team operational checklists: An office or lab tracking recurring maintenance, opening and closing routines and compliance checks, self-hosted so task data never leaves the company AWS account
- Personal recurring task management: An individual managing bills, medication reminders, subscriptions and home maintenance on a private instance with multiple views and completion history
AWS Integration
Deploy on any EC2 instance type. Use the health endpoint with an Application Load Balancer for availability monitoring. Back up the SQLite datastore and configuration using EBS snapshots or AWS Backup. Terminate TLS at your own domain and certificate in front of the instance for HTTPS access.
Getting Started
Read your administrator credential from the root-only file, open the web interface in your browser, sign in, and create your first tasks and recurring chores. Organize work into circles or groups, assign it to members, and track completion history from any of the built-in views.
cloudimg Support
24/7 technical support by email and chat. Help with deployment, reverse-proxy termination with your own domain and certificate, enabling registration and inviting members, and backup planning for your task data.
Highlights
- Prebuilt and secure in minutes: unlike a manual install that requires downloading and checksum-verifying the binary, authoring a systemd unit, configuring a reverse proxy and hardening credentials, this image completes every build and hardening step at image creation time. Launch an instance and reach a working, authenticated task manager without editing a single configuration file.
- Secure by default with unique per-instance secrets: every instance generates its own cryptographically random administrator password AND a fresh JWT session-signing secret on first boot, so no two deployments share a credential and sessions cannot be forged across instances. The application binds exclusively to loopback behind nginx, and open self-registration ships disabled with only the seeded administrator present.
- Full-featured self-hosted task and chore manager with 24/7 support: recurring schedules, assignments, points and shared circles or groups across multiple views, backed by an embedded SQLite datastore with no external database to run. A single self-contained Go binary fronted by nginx, backed by 24/7 cloudimg technical support via email and chat.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/hour |
|---|---|---|
m5.large Recommended | m5.large | $0.08 |
t3.micro | t3.micro instance type | $0.04 |
t2.micro | t2.micro instance type | $0.04 |
c6id.24xlarge | c6id.24xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
c8a.xlarge | c8a.xlarge instance type | $0.12 |
m5d.4xlarge | m5d.4xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
i4i.2xlarge | i4i.2xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
m8i.2xlarge | m8i.2xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
r5dn.12xlarge | r5dn.12xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
r7a.4xlarge | r7a.4xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
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An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Initial release of Donetick as a ready-to-use self-hosted task and chore manager, running as a single Go binary with its web interface served behind nginx, secured with a unique admin credential and a unique JWT session secret generated on each instance's first boot, with open self-registration disabled by default.
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Usage instructions
Connect via SSH on port 22 as the default login user for your operating system variant (for the Ubuntu 24.04 variant the user is ubuntu). Read the per-instance admin credential with: sudo cat /root/donetick-credentials.txt. Open the web interface in a browser at http://<instance-public-ip>/ and sign in with the admin username and password from that file. A health endpoint is available at http://<instance-public-ip>/api/v1/health. The datastore is an embedded SQLite database at /var/lib/donetick/donetick.db. The instance security group opens ports 22 and 80. Open self-registration is disabled by default; to re-enable it set DT_IS_USER_CREATION_DISABLED=false in /etc/donetick/donetick.env then run: sudo systemctl restart donetick. The services run under systemd: systemctl status donetick nginx.
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cloudimg Support
cloudimg provides 24/7 technical support for this product by email and live chat.
Contact: support@cloudimg.co.uk
What we help with:
- Deployment and initial configuration
- Reverse-proxy termination with your own domain and TLS certificate
- Enabling self-registration and inviting family or group members
- Backup planning for your task data using EBS snapshots or AWS Backup
- Performance tuning and troubleshooting
- Updates and security patching guidance
Refunds: For refund requests, contact support@cloudimg.co.uk with your AWS account ID and subscription details.
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