I think everybody on here is constantly keeping an eye out for what to host next. Sometimes you spinup something which chugs along nicely but sometimes you find out you’ve been missing out.
For me it’s not very refreshing or new: Paperless-ngx. Never thought I would add all my administration to it. But it’s great. I probably can’t find the thing I need, but I should have a record of every mail or letter I’ve gotten. Close second is Wanderer. But I would like to have a little bit more features like adding recorded routes to view speed and compare with previous walks. But that’s not what it is intended for.
What is that service for you?
Never knew I needed? Another vote for Paperless-ngx. I still feel like I’m living in the future using it. The trick I’ve found was initially setting up a good document naming & management convention & following it religiously for every document. The search function is fantastic at narrowing down results. Used in conjunction with specific coloured tags I can immediately see what I need from search results.
Fired up Immich recently. Amazing. Will be donating as I like their stance.
I also enjoy Linkwarden. Switched from the also excellent Hoarder as I prefer the UI.
Most used? Nextcloud with Joplin.
@saltarello@lemmy.world funnily enough, I switched from Linkwarden to Hoarder. I like the smart lists. Just bookmark everything, check it later.
Self hosted Librespeed. Just so usefull to know if I or my ISP screwed up!
https://github.com/Waterboy1602/Addarr
I use this all the time instead of opening Radarr and Sonarr
Posted above, I’ll drop it here as well, requestarr performs the same service but via discord.
Isn’t this a bit more steps than using Overseer?
It’s more work to set up, but a much easier experience if you have users who can’t remotely access Overseerr. You always have to account for the “mom factor” when hosting services; Will your mom be able to learn how to use it? My mom can use Discord, but good luck getting her to learn Tailscale to access my Overseerr remotely.
Immich! Backs up my phone pictures for my family with automatic backup through an easy app interface. Knowing my large album of photos on my phone won’t be tied to an endless growing subscription fees for…ever?!
Same!
Did not realize how good it is to have digital albums with the family! And also having a backup is great as well, for a peace of mind.
Immich is fantastic. Yes.
Is this accessible outside your own home network, or is it restricted to local?
Same as any piece of software you’re hosting, it’s up to you to decide. I run my instance on my Hetzner vm.
It’s very accessible with a reverse proxy. Just please be secure if you choose to do so. It’s been a wonderful piece of software and i will be paying for the lifetime server license this weekend.
Unpopular opinion from what I’ve seen in this forum, but for me it is Nextcloud followed by Jellyfin.
I use Nextcloud setup fory whole family, about a dozen all together. I even sprang for the DavX5 plugin for several people so we can share calendars and contacts as well as files and notes. We backup photos from our phones using the Nextcloud app. Several of us use it as a backend for KeePass.
We use Jellyfin for streaming; movies, tv, music videos and music. It is the backend storage and library organizer for four Kodi boxes, five browsers, several phones and tablets and a couple of Roku’s. It works like a champ, even with the occasional library re-sync.
What was disappointing about wallabag? I have an ebook reader, and Koreader has it integrated into it, and its great.
I found the UI to be horrendous, and managing tags was very painful. During the time I was paying for the cloud-service, there wasn’t any noticable development of the web-app, so I stopped using it. Mind you, this was pre-pandemic and things might have changed since then.
I’m hosting it also, and the only regret is no android app, so don’t appear as a “share” possibility. But definitly perfect on PC browser :)
FYI, the repo has been moved and the link is outdated
The one that was way more useful then expected is immich. I have over 100,000 photos I took during my life and it usually takes me DAYS to find a specific picture I need.
I installed immich and let it AI scan everything for a week or something. Now I can search for something specific like “it’s a black square in the middle of the photo and has a little knob on it” and it finds me the photo I need.
It’s also cool to see photos of people, organized by the individual by searching their name or clicking on their face.
I’ve only just set it up, mainly for the facial recognition. I had no idea that it could do that type of search too. It’s going to be really helpful with my faulty brain and not remembering words 🙂
Pet detection is sorta on the roadmap for 2025… I couldn’t be happier.
+1 for immich, if I didn’t already know I would be doing photo backups it would have been my entry. For things “I didn’t know I needed”
Is this local only? No clouds reported data?
Local only.
Of course it is.
You can download different models as well. For me, without a GPU, searching for example ‘cat’ takes a few seconds, and it is not the most accurate, but still works OK.
This is exactly why I’d want a GPU in a home server.
That and transcoding. Wonder what the best option would be without breaking the bank/wasting too much idle power. All the GPU talk online seems to be for gaming.
Been using anytype.io (self-hosted) for a month now and it has been amazing.
Using it as a journal, bookmark manager, general note taking, etc…
Actual Budget a selfhosting budget software. It helps me keep track of my finances
couldn’t find it please provide a link thanks
Yeah I left the massively overpriced closed source YNAB and Actual is actually better.
That looks nice. Added it to my list to look at. Thanks.
A clone of 12ft.io but the old version before they got into beef with the New York Times and kneecapped it. It doesn’t work on every single article with a paywall but it works on the overwhelming majority (including New York Times articles)
And it doesn’t really count because I knew I’d use it but komga+komf+fmd2. I list it though because I didn’t realize I’d use this stack so much. I can now read with my phone, my laptop, my ereader, etc. tachiyomi/mihon works, reading progress is synced, and I never have to visit one of those garbage manga aggregation sites ever again
Would you mind sharing links?
oh duh
https://github.com/wasi-master/13ft/blob/main/docker-compose.yaml - this is the 12ft.io replacement i use. there are a few clones but this is the one I like, it’s real barebones and uses very little overhead
https://komga.org/ - komga library https://github.com/Snd-R/komf - komf - this isn’t strictly necessary but it fetches metadata for your komga library from sites like manga updates. can be a bit of a pain to configure https://github.com/Snd-R/komf-userscript - this is a tampermonkey script that makes komf MUCH easier to use https://github.com/dazedcat19/FMD2 - this is an app that rips manga from most of the “free manga” indexer sites like mangadex, bato, etc. docker and kubernetes version at https://github.com/ElryGH/docker-FMD2
you can read directly via komga web but frankly it kind of sucks for that. i prefer using an app. tachiyomi was the gold standard but companies threatened it and they stopped development. there are several forks now that are all good in various ways. i prefer mihon https://mihon.app/ but there are alternatives that have different feature sets
Quickly send files, paste images/text snippets between devices.
I’m using the older Snapdrop (which PD was forked from) with some patches I made to:
- Work behind Authelia for SSO + 2FA
- Use the display name provided by Authelia instead of the random usernames it gives out by default
- Send transfers over the internet without dealing with the temporary “rooms” that Pairdrop uses (it’s behind Authelia, so only authorized users can get to it).
It has 100% replaced emailing things to myself or shuffling files to/from Nextcloud. I probably use it to send text (URLs, clipboard contents, etc) to/from my phone as much as I use it for sending files back and forth.
KDE Connect masterrace represent!
I love KDE Connect but I can’t figure out how to get it to work at work. Probably some firewall thing. It works fine at home, but can’t find my phone at work.
Definitely firewall things. Do you connect your personal phone to your work’s Wi-Fi? I would really not.
I just setup Pairdrop on my home server. Holy crap it’s amazing!
Nice! Yeah, I’ve been a big fan of it. Planning to eventually replace my custom Snapdrop with Pairdrop since they’ve made quite a few other improvements.
Somehow this one has had eluded me! Thanks for the req!
I think there one I never expected would be Kitchenowl. Shopping list, recipe list, planner for food, expenses… very useful for a joined household.
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thought it was overkill. now does tons of things.wouldnt wanna live without it.
discord bot for my families group chat server. I know it doesn’t really mesh well with the mentality of selfhosting but it works for us.
I’m able to do silly stuff like each person getting a ‘score’ that gets taken down or up when they say something good/bad and people react to it
I have so many shitty little discord bots I’ve tossed together, I love self hosting them lol
Love that
Y’all get a lot of good use out of Discord?
Why not Matrix via Conduit?
I’d say the ARR suite but I knew beforehand that would need it. I just love that I can access overseerr, search up and coming and already out content, click “request”, and then magically it just shows up on my plex after a couple minutes.
A service that I host that I never knew I needed is Nextcloud. Works exactly the way OneDrive worked for me. I record footage on my phone, upload it to Nextcloud, and log onto any computer of mine in the house and can edit the footage. Sometimes I edit footage in VR while I play XPlane, then I’ll save it, turn everything off, and continue right where I left off on my laptop.
Probably super basic but locally syncing things is a godsend to the way I used to do things (KDE connect transfers footage from my phone to a single computer).
Layering on top of that (I’m sorry to recommend a discord app) but, Requestarr is awesome as well. It allows you to attach a bot to a channel and request up through Overseer, Sonarr or Radarr. Works for local and remote users.
