[thingification]

Have you considered sandstorm.io?

https://sandstorm.io/

I realize this doesn't meet your requirement re hosting it yourself -- but since I don't know the full background, perhaps that doesn't matter to you.

[popham]

You can host Sandstorm yourself. The most recent relevant Dev Group post that I see on the subject of self-hosting is at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sandstorm-dev/ff3oZG....