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

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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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[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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?

I use:

Immich for photo hosting
Jellyfin and navidrome for media (video and audio)
Calibre and calibre-web for ebooks
Minecraft server
Mealie for recipes.
Home assistant for automation
Habitica for habit forming
And I have fpp for my Christmas lights (the application is xlights, fpp is the server that runs the scripts)

All of these I like.

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

which habitica fork are you running at home? do you have the forked android app also? with home assistant, it's all just so slick!

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm running https://github.com/awinterstein/habitica/ and have built the android app locally to get access. I really need to update and build it again eventually.

It's not seamless, but it functions for the family.

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 points 2 days ago

yayy habitica twinsies

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