Define your company's terminology, link related terms, publish a searchable glossary. The living document that onboards new hires and ends the 'what does X mean?' Slack messages.
SaaS tools hold your data hostage. Export formats are incomplete, migrations are painful, and pricing changes whenever the vendor feels like it. Glossary stores everything in SQLite on your own server. Your data is a file you control, back up, and query directly.
Install Glossary with the one-line shell script or download the binary directly from GitHub. Run it, open /ui, and start creating terms. The SQLite database lives in a single file under the data directory. To migrate to a new server, copy the binary and the data directory. That is the entire migration procedure.
A non-profit with no DevOps budget downloads the Glossary binary, sets two environment variables, and runs it on the same Linux box that handles their email. It has been running for three months without intervention. When they need to update, they download the new binary and restart the process.
GET /api/terms — List all terms. Supports ?q=keyword for search and ?status=value for filteringPOST /api/terms — Create a new term. Send JSON with at least nameGET /api/terms/{id} — Fetch one term by IDPUT /api/terms/{id} — Update fields on an existing termDELETE /api/terms/{id} — Remove a termGET /api/stats — Returns total count and breakdown by statusGET /api/health — Returns {"status":"ok"} for uptime monitoringSelf-hosted term and jargon manager. Self-hosted on your infrastructure. Your data never leaves your server.
curl -fsSL https://stockyard.dev/install.sh | sh -s -- --tool glossary
PORT=9260 ./glossary
http://localhost:9260
Single binary. Embedded SQLite. No Docker. No database. No dependencies.
Your license key arrives by email within 5 minutes of checkout. Set it as an environment variable and restart the binary.
export GLOSSARY_LICENSE_KEY=stockyard_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ./glossary
No cloud connectivity required. The binary validates the key offline with Ed25519 signatures.