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!

  • WingedObsidian@sh.itjust.works
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    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