WebDAV And CalDAV Sync Plumbing For Self-Hosted Household Apps
Yuvomi, a privacy-first self-hosted family planner, gathered 723 GitHub stars, and its loudest issues are about interoperating with the protocols households already run: WebDAV document storage and CalDAV calendar sync that does not work reliably. Families adopting self-hosted planners want them to slot into Nextcloud, Synology, and existing calendars rather than become another island. A drop-in CalDAV/WebDAV sync component for these household apps removes the integration work each one currently reinvents and gets wrong.
Problem Statement
A family wants its self-hosted planner to read the shared calendar already living in Nextcloud and store documents on the home WebDAV server, but Yuvomi's CalDAV integration is reported as not working properly and external WebDAV document storage is still an open request. Each household app rebuilds CalDAV two-way sync, fumbles recurrence and timezone edge cases, and ships something that silently drops events, which is the fastest way to lose a family's trust in a shared planner.
The Idea
A drop-in CalDAV and WebDAV sync component for self-hosted household and family-organizer apps that need to mirror existing calendars and file stores correctly.
Why Now
Households are spinning up Nextcloud and home servers in larger numbers, and the new wave of self-hosted family planners launching in 2026 immediately hits the wall of two-way calendar and file sync. Yuvomi's top feature and bug threads both point at CalDAV and WebDAV, showing the protocol layer is the adoption blocker, not the planner UI.
Target User
Developers building self-hosted family and household organizer apps, and the self-hosters deploying them
Target Market
Self-hosted household organization and family-planner software
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