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What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm already hosting pihole, but i know there's so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I've got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

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[–] 68 points 3 years ago (9 children)

For me it's 100% Nextcloud. It was a pain to get working at first (and I'm dreading the day it breaks, if that happens). But it is so much more than just a self-hosted Dropbox solution:

  • Maps
  • Calendar
  • Email
  • Markdown editor (I'm using this to try and replace Google Drive for collaborative document editing with my friends; most of what we need can be achieved with Markdown formatting)
  • I haven't tried it but there is a Talk plugin that allows for video conferencing in browser;
  • a bunch of other stuff I've never played with like mind maps, PDF conversion, music player, etc.
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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    My experience has been that Nextcloud can do 1000 different things, and it sucks at all of them.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Been using nextcloud for about 5 years, right now I use it for storing files and nothing else, and it still kinda sucks at that.

    Gonna use paperless for any documents I have in NC, after that there won’t be much left in there, just some old dot files. Maybe I’ll get rid of it entirely

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago*

    Nextcloud is the Wordpress of cloud storage. You can customize it to do literally everything. You can even write your own plugin if necessary. But unlike Wordpress, the default setup is quite locked down (you can't just drop php files somewhere and have it accessible to reduce security risk) and you'll actually have to follow certain formats and standards when writing a plugin, unlike the free-for-all every-man-for-himself nature of wordpress plugin development.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Carnet to replace google keep notes

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's a lot of pain to set up, but Nextcloud with OnlyOffice is just great for editing documents collaboratively and in realtime on the web. Actually one of the things that works better than O365's web editors.

    Some of my notes here if anyone wants them

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    The problem with OnlyOffice is that it doesn't allow for editing from Android, because then you'll have to pay, which is why I switched to Collabora Office.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I've also found that issue a while ago. Though I don't use the editor on Android anyways, so not an issue for me.
    I had trouble setting up Collabora Office, but maybe I should revisit that.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Before you set up Collabora, you should know that the rendering is done server-side and not client-side. This provides really good synchronization, as the clients will receive the changes simultaneously, but it also results into slower performance, because the server has to do the rendering, instead of the clients.

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