Backslash

A Backlog tracker.

STATUS: Pre-Development

A self-hosted backlog tracker that enables you to import content, organize, create lists, add notes to lists or individual items, leave reviews and ratings and track progress. As this progresses more features will be added of course. The end goal is to create a system that allows you to track multiple media types: Books, movies, TV Shows and games etc

To begin I will create the system focused on games, the reason being I want to create this system to I can track my game backlog as well as wanting to interact with steam and play around with importing media.

There are other options out there that are much better and established but I want to give this project a go in an attempt to improve my programming skills. By no means am I a programmer, In my day job im an Infrastructure Operations Engineer so Im likely way out of my depth here but here goes xD

My Goal is to create this project with minimal use of AI, I will restrict AI usage to asking questions and brainstorming ideas and best practices, again the goal here is for me to learn programming.

Screenshots and Demo

TBC — no working prototype yet.

Getting started

As of right now there is no working program, not even a prototype :D

Docker Compose

TBC once a working prototype exists.

Kubernetes

TBC once a working prototype exists.

Tech stack

I want to write the program in go, for no other reason than thats the language I want to learn. architectural decisions will be made and change as I go this can be tracked in DECISIONS.md, as needs and requirements change. Im stepping into this blind so continued research is required.

Contributions

I am accepting feature requests / bugs however as this is a learning project for now, no prs.

Roadmap

Will begin with basic functionality and focus on game management with imports from steam. Still unsure on feature priority / development order

Data storage & Privacy

As this is selfhosted you are responsible for all data you hold using this project. Please be mindful of other users you may have using the system once the project evolves to allow that. I have no idea about best practices when it comes to writing programs that deal with sensitive data such as API keys or PII, I will try to make sure security and privacy take the forefront when it comes to data storage and privacy.

Desired Features

Auth & Security

• Secure Login
• Integration with Auth Providers i.e Authentik

Account

• "Families" - Allow users to view / compare libraries, notes, match shared items
• General profile customization - Profile Pictures (linked with auth / ldap / gravitar), Custom names, Bio, Profile Pages, publicly shared favourites.
• Media preferences

Clients

• WebUI Client
• CLI client

Media Importing

• Steam for games
• Jellyfin for media (Movies, TV Shows, Audio Books, Books)
• Support for other sources
• Scraping for descriptions, ratings, images, tags

Organization

• Create lists
• Add notes to lists
• Add notes to individual items
• Leave personal ratings
• Filters (Genre, Length (HLTB for games), Themes, Rating)
• Sorting (Length (HLTB for games), Rating)
• Bulk actions

Recommendations

• recommend media by comparing tags
• take into account profile media preferences
• separate recommendations based on media preference matches between family members
• Public recommendations from external lists such as imdb
• recommendations based on steam sale / steam wishlist (default off)

License

Backslash is licensed under the GNU AGPL-3.0. See LICENSE for the full text.