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My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

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Re: My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

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Post by turtlebits »

xnx wrote: post #14
nesarkvechnep wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I know, there are no inherent problems preventing simple installations. You make it sound like there is.

No inherent problems, just a very fractured landscape where install could involve: Linux, MacOS, Windows, WSL, Docker, or AWS. If your setup has anything that differs from the developer, it could unexpectedly take hours of extra troubleshooting.

Most self-hosted services I've seen all use Docker, which have nothing to do with your OS or cloud provider.

The biggest hurdle for me is being too lazy to setup proper DR/backups.

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Post by kevinfiol »

c54 wrote: post #2

I’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…

> But.. reducing mindless scrolling while still giving me a way to follow content I care about seems good.

My solution [1] to this was to create a static site that is built by a Github Actions workflow that runs every hour. The script just pulls RSS feeds I have listed in a .js file, and uses that to build the site [2]. The result is I'm more deliberate in what videos I watch, and I discover new creators organically (a friend recommends one, or I find them while doing a search).

For "favoriting" videos, I just add them to a folder in Firefox bookmarks manager.

My newest "feature" is a "Picks from your subscriptions" thing that uses an external Deno service [3] to grab a random video from one of my random subscriptions. This helps me discover old videos from my subscriptions I may have never seen.

[1] https://github.com/kevinfiol/youtube

[2] https://kevinfiol.com/youtube/

[3] https://github.com/kevinfiol/youtube-random

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Post by Saris »

xnx wrote: post #4

Self-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.

Pretty much everything has an official docker image and included docker-compose file at this point, so installation is pretty standard and can be done in a couple of minutes for just about any of them.

But if you do want mobile phone app level of simplicity, there are options like Cosmos that handle everything for you and just give a pretty UI.

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Post by ryandrake »

xnx wrote: post #12
elashri wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 )

Thanks for the list. I hadn't heard of some of those.

I feel so old, I haven't heard of any of them.

When I think of installing software, my mind goes to things like "apt-get install" and maybe opening /etc/xyz.conf in "vi". Who knew installing software needed so much support? Even docker seems so overboard for 90% of "single home lab machine" use cases.

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Post by AznHisoka »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #20
xnx wrote: post #4

Self-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.

I self host about 30 services. Each of them is in a docker container and I do not know what happens inside. I only configure the startup in a YAML file and I am done. Works great.

This is a blessing and a curse. If there is a bug or something that you need to debug in it, it can be painful

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Post by gf000 »

ryandrake wrote: post #24
xnx wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the list. I hadn't heard of some of those.

I feel so old, I haven't heard of any of them. When I think of installing software, my mind goes to things like "apt-get install" and maybe opening /etc/xyz.conf in "vi". Who knew installing software needed so much support? Even docker seems so overboard for 90% of "single home lab machine" use cases.

That apt-get install never actuay worked properly - what if packageA uses version A of a dependency, but packageB uses version B of that same dependency? Sure, debian/Ubuntu maintainers did the painstaking job of making an environment where most packages can happily live together, but that only worked until you had to use this new version of program C that requires a newer dependency for this and that and that.

Also, it always left behind orphaned packages, a good test was/is to install the whole of gnome, then the whole of plasma, and remove them both. Ideally, nothing should be left alone.

The only package manager capable of that is Nix (and those that use the same fundamental model). A second best option is to simply ship your whole work machine, a la docker.

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Post by dchuk »

Here’s a business idea for someone: find the best open source/self hosted business and start up tools (such as a chat app, a project management tool, a wiki, etc) and offer startups a managed hosting service of those selected apps. Toss up a cheap but decent vps per client, run some open source monitoring tools for yourself, price as a flat rate per app under management (vs scaling rate of a per user seat in most SaaS products).

Seems like a pretty damn easy lifestyle business that many early startups would find valuable because it saves them money and the headache of doing it themselves.

Re: My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

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Post by aitchnyu »

The idle sleep feature of Go Proxy could be a gamechanger since cheap servers can host lots of infrequently used apps. Guess it should become the standard and extend to background processes too, like a PM2 or Systemd.

https://github.com/yusing/go-proxy?tab=readme-ov-file#idlesl...

Re: My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

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Post by si1entstill »

broknbottle wrote: post #27

I’ve found Home Assistant and i’s add-ons systems a good way to self host without the fuss. If you need something that is not there you can create your own repo and it’s pretty easy to create your own add-on collection

I'm a very satisfied home assistant user, but I don't run much in the way of addons. Any you'd recommend?
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