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

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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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[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Here are some of the things I self host that I haven't seen mentioned:

Continuwuity is a chat server that talks Matrix, so you can join the chat rooms of a lot of open source projects or make end to end encrypted private chats
Forgejo is a self-hosted code forge (github alternative) - very useful
FreshRSS is a good one if you like to follow blogs, newsletters or pretty much anything 'news'
Grafana plus VictoriaMetrics and/or Quickwit is very useful for keeping track of the health of all your services
Homepage is a... homepage for all your services
Stalwart gives you a mail server. Set it up for any other projects that need to send mail, or as a backup for your emails, contacts or calendars - it's the easiest way to set that up self hosted. Making it suitable as your main email may need more effort (delivery).
Related to Continuwuity / matrix, you can set up the Mautrix collection of bridges, which let you bridge Discord, WhatsApp, IRC, telegram, and more into your matrix account or chats seamlessly.
LMS (lightweight Media Server, not to be confused with Logitech Media Server) is an alternative to Navidrome that I find works better with my library tagging and ListenBrainz
Speakr - audio transcription with diarisation. Very useful if you like to record meetings.

[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 1 points 22 hours ago

Speakr looks amazing! Thanks

[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t know about stalwart but I can personally recommend mailcow

[–] arcayne@lemmy.today 1 points 21 hours ago

I used Mailcow for a while before switching to Stalwart out of curiosity. Stalwart was a bit easier to deploy and feels more polished than Mailcow, but they both get the job done.