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Fun/interesting things to self host? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by halloween_spookster@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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What things do you self host (or know about) that are fun/interesting/useful to you? I'm thinking of setting up a home server and am looking for things that would be useful or fun for me to run on it. I want to host things that are useful/fun, but not a project itself (I've got enough projects), if that makes sense.

Most of the lists I see online are mostly lists of technical projects like docker, kubernetes, grafana, nginx, etc. I see these as infrastructure rather than the interesting project itself. ETA: the infra is important, but not "interesting" in this context as I deal with infra at my day job.

Examples of the type of service I'm looking at: a media server, photos app (to replace Google Photos), game servers, recipe management, home automation... What other things do you know about that are fun/interesting/useful?

Edit: thank you everyone for your awesome responses!

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[–] WingedObsidian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Headscale with headplane UI for access across servers

Openwebui for LLM stuff with tika for doc processing

Nextcloud for data and such

Immich(migrating away from photoprism) for better photo management and phone upload

Caddy for reverse proxy

Not used as much: Monica for contact management Mealie for its ease of importing recipes

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Keep an eye on Open Web UI. I’ve heard rumblings that it’s starting to enshittify.

[–] WingedObsidian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the heads up! I’ll keep that on my radar. It would be unfortunate if the rumbles are true