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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Reality_Forger on 2025-06-14 18:48:30+00:00.
Hi folks!
I’ve inherited a small desktop‑only home‑inventory program that works great for me, and I’m about to port it to mobile under an FOSS license.
The issue: The ecosystem is fragmented. There are plenty of commercial and FOSS apps, but no agreed‑upon way to migrate or sync data between them. I’d love to keep my app from becoming yet another walled garden.
Are there any existing open standards or well‑documented schemas for home‑inventory data (maybe something hiding under schema.org, GS1, XBRL, etc.)?
If nothing formal exists, is anyone interested in collaborating on a lightweight spec + reference library so future FOSS or even proprietary apps can interoperate?
I would like to see my app to have bi-directional integrations with existing solutions.
Cheers, and thanks for keeping data under our roofs!