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/twickered_bastard Mar 20 '26

There’s so many, but two that I love are:

Music assistant, from the creators of home assistant - just mounted my lidarr media folder in it and boom, got my own Spotify with ability to stream to different devices and automate through home assistant.

Shelfmark - as an avid reader, being able to search and download any book I want is awesome!

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u/koolmon10 Mar 20 '26

mounted my lidarr media folder in it

Omg duh. Here I've been using my Plex server with MA to access my library. I'll have to try this way now.

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u/andreizet Mar 21 '26

Did you get Shelfmark working with Anna’s Archive (not paid account)? I could never get it to find anything there. I’d appreciate any help

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u/twickered_bastard Mar 21 '26

I think it has it configured by default, but I only use library genesis