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!

  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Off the top of my head:

    • Paperless ( Digital filing cabinet, tagging is local LLM backed
    • Immich (Google Photos replacement)
    • Nextcloud (Replaces the rest of Google Cloud functionality)
    • LubeLogger (Vehicle maintenance logger)
    • Home Assistant (Home and other things automation)
    • Jellyfin (Primary media server)
    • Hoarder (Online bookmarking, tagging and summarizing service, Local LLM backed. I think this project has changed names)
    • Audiobookshelf ( Does what it says on the tin. Audiobook server, kinda like audible but I can actually find the books I already own. )
    • Navidrome (Not sure if I’m keeping this one. Like the features but it largely duplicates the music side of Jellyfin)
    • Minecraft Server (Again, does what it says on the tin)

    There are other services I run but those are the ones I use most often and can rattle off when I’m as tired as I am right now.

    • starshipwinepineapple@programming.devEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I much prefer navidrome for music over jellyfin. Better presentation and usage, tracks meaningful data and displays it by default, and won’t delete your music library data if a folder gets moved. In other words jellyfin just gets rid of that data but navidrome will track missing songs and make you explicitly confirm removing them from the database.

      • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        8 days ago

        I use FinAmp client with Jellyfin for music.

        I agree the Jellyfin interface is not well optimized for music, but FinAmp negates most of that and my phone is how I mostly listen to music anyway.

        I like Navidrone, but it’s a duplicate service that doesn’t really have a big value add over Jellyfin beyond the ability to share tracks with friends. A major feature upgrade, but not something I use terribly often.