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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[–] 12 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Here is my list:

  • Open WebUI to have browser access to ollama
  • AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion Web UI to generate images
  • HomeAssistant to automate my home
  • Immich to backup pictures from family phones and computers and make them accessible like Google Photos
  • PeerTube to store and make accessible family videos
  • PieFed to access the threadyverse
  • Mastodon to do microblogging
  • Uptime Kuma to check that all my services are up and running
  • Synapse Matrix Server for Text, Video and audio chats with family and friends
  • Syncthing to share files
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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    +1 for Home Assistant, though the Docker implementation doesn’t allow add-ons. That may be fine at first, but a lot of the more complicated setup requires add-ons. For me, it was worth it to just go ahead and grab an HA Green to run my HA stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (3 children)

    FYI, A1111 is obsolete. The diffusers or comfy-based backends are way faster, richer, less buggy and support newer things.

    I’d recommend UIs that support SVDQuant, in particular.

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