My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024
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#2I’m interested in the alternative YouTube front ends like Pinchflat and Glance mentioned here. Ideally I’d avoid scrolling the YouTube homepage while still giving views and likes/subscribed to the creators I watch, because it helps support them (to what degree exactly I’m not sure but it seems like the right thing to do). I do find the archiving/downloading case meaningful as well, since a few yt vids that I enjoyed have been taken down over the years.
But.. reducing mindless scrolling while still giving me a way to follow content I care about seems good.
Does anyone have experience with using these? Are there alternate tools which are better than the ones listed here?
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#3I love, love all the energy in the ‘self-hosting’ space. These apps are all that stand between us and the cloud hegemony goin' on.
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#4Self-hosting is such a crapshoot. The installation/setup process is completely bespoke for each different app. Self-hosting apps could have a real impact on overpriced SaaS if installation could be made as simple as installing a mobile app.
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#5What’s the purpose of appending ?ref=selfh.st to every outgoing link? Generally you can’t just make up parameters for other people’s websites.
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#6Self-hosting is such a crapshoot. The installation/setup process is completely bespoke for each different app. Self-hosting apps could have a real impact on overpriced SaaS if installation could be made as simple as installing a mobile app.
There are many tools that provide this experience but you then lose some of customization.
Some examples are
Cosmos (https://github.com/azukaar/Cosmos-Server)
Younohost (https://yunohost.org/)
Runtipi (https://github.com/runtipi/runtipi)
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#7Self-hosting is such a crapshoot. The installation/setup process is completely bespoke for each different app. Self-hosting apps could have a real impact on overpriced SaaS if installation could be made as simple as installing a mobile app.
As far as I know, there are no inherent problems preventing simple installations. You make it sound like there is.
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#9I’m interested in the alternative YouTube front ends like Pinchflat and Glance mentioned here. Ideally I’d avoid scrolling the YouTube homepage while still giving views and likes/subscribed to the creators I watch, because it helps support them (to what degree exactly I’m not sure but it seems like the right thing to do). I do find the archiving/downloading case meaningful as well, since a few yt vids that I enjoyed…
> (to what degree exactly I’m not sure but it seems like the right thing to do)
It doesn't help them very much, or at all. If you want to support them, you can pay them.
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#10Self-hosting is such a crapshoot. The installation/setup process is completely bespoke for each different app. Self-hosting apps could have a real impact on overpriced SaaS if installation could be made as simple as installing a mobile app.
Most of them are OSS so you could make a real impact if you spearheaded this! Some buy-in on some sort of standardized install process from the top projects could go a long way if you decide to pursue.
I’ve had enough success with using docker images (lots of projects provide them) that I don’t feel the pain acutely, but there certainly is some bespoke fiddling with every one. To me that’s part of the self-hosting experience, but I know plenty of people that don’t self host because of it, can’t blame them.