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!

  • 2910000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 天前

    Your own wiki, and your own social media-type service

    I post miscellaneous notes to my social media-type service, and save lists and more organised information (including recipes) to my wiki.

    • starshipwinepineapple@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 天前

      I haven’t gotten to hosting my own wiki, but i do host an internal-only personal knowledge static site built with hugo. I have it set to build the site on my server which then serves it. Very useful to have something like that or a wiki.

      • 2910000@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 天前

        I used to do it that way too, but my wife is not technically inclined, so we settled on something with a web UI for editing.
        There are a few areas where the wiki is marginally better for me, the main one being the ability to do quick edits from a smartphone.
        I do really like the simple approach with a static site builder though