HiCyou
A self-hosted, multilingual directory for products and online resources
HiCyou helps people discover useful products and gives publishers a clear path from submission to review.
The same codebase is available to teams that want to run a focused directory on their own infrastructure.
What is HiCyou?
A public directory, moderation workflow, and developer API in one codebase
Visitors can browse structured listings while publishers submit products and follow each review from their account.
- Seven built-in locales with translated listings
- Categories, tags, collections, and search
- SEO metadata, structured data, and AI-readable feeds
The Apache-2.0 licensed core includes the application, database migrations, synthetic seed data, tests, and Docker setup.
- Next.js 16, React 19, PostgreSQL, and Drizzle ORM
- Commercial use allowed; attribution remains voluntary
- CI covers tests, builds, secrets, and high-severity vulnerabilities
Key Features
Discovery, publishing, operations, and integrations are included
Review submissions and manage listings, taxonomy, translations, content quality, API access, and analytics
URL-first submission, metadata prefill, status tracking, authentication, and optional Turnstile protection
Server-side badge verification with optional attribution and dofollow link support
Metadata, sitemap, robots, JSON-LD, Open Graph images, and llms.txt endpoints
Optional OpenAI-compatible workflows for content, translation, category enrichment, and automatic collections
Responsive pages with light and dark themes for desktop and mobile browsing
HiCyou's public core is designed for self-hosting. Production data and private deployment settings are not bundled with the repository.
License & Attribution
- ✓Free for personal and commercial use
- ✓Modify and customize to your needs
- ✓Deploy with Docker or the standalone Node.js server
- ⚠Optional attribution: Optional: display a "Powered by HiCyou" badge on your website
Current technology stack
The framework, runtime, and data layer used by this release
React framework with App Router
Type-safe development
Utility-first styling
Type-safe database queries