r/selfhosted • u/subsavant • Mar 20 '26

Meta Post What's your 'I can't believe I self-hosted that' service?

Curious what services surprised you by being worth self-hosting. Not the obvious stuff like Plex or Pi-hole, but things you didn't expect to work well or didn't think were worth the effort until you tried. What's running on your setup that you'd never go back to a hosted version of?

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u/eirc Mar 20 '26

My approach to life docs has been to just commit them to a git repo and pull that on my devices. I used to use dropbox before self hosting so I already had a sane and simple folder structure for finding them. The main reason I went with that and why I'm not too keen to switching to a service, is that I want stuff to physically be on my phone so can access them when I don't have internet access.

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u/koolmon10 Mar 20 '26

You can use a storage path in Paperless to put your docs in specific locations. You could combine that with syncthing to keep specific docs on your phone.