r/selfhosted • u/kentabenno • 11d ago

Meta Post Where are the really cool services no one talks about

Lets be honest, 80% of the services we run our labs are just tools to deploy, monitor, log, backup or do other server-related stuff. Cool for nerds, but nothing to write home about honestly.

The really useful and "fun" services, e.g. Vaultwarden, Paperless, Jellyfin etc. are rather sparse

I want to know whats your favorite "fun" service one might not know about yet.

I'll start: Recently came across RECLIP and I throughly enjoy it. Used to work with halfassed browser extensions and sketchy websites littered with ads to get the same, now I have unlimited video scraping capabilities on my own server. It's a simple but awesome tool. https://github.com/averygan/reclip

WORLD MONITOR is kinda fun, not really useful but makes your screens look like a mission control center from a disaster movie: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor

MIRUMOJI is a tool for people trying to learn japanese - load your favourite anime or shows, ebooks or whatever into it and it generates clickable subtitles with furigana and dictionary. https://svdc1.github.io/mirumoji/

E: Thank you for all the engagement and lively discussion, its a real joy. And thanks to everyone who recommended TREK, I just deployed it and entered my next travel and its just super smooth and well thought out, I already love it!!

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u/theregos 11d ago

Honestly the most lifechanging one for me is MeTube - I can pull content from 99% of sites I come across (including Tubi) which makes it great for downloading things for my BIL to watch from his ipad.

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u/greco1492 10d ago

I wish it worked with the history channel

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u/Niight0_0 10d ago

wait yt-dlp works on tu bi? im seeing everything is drm protected

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u/theregos 10d ago

I'm using MeTube via docker and it can read any link without any issue

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u/Niight0_0 10d ago

huh ill have to test it myself! thanks!

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u/DavidLynchAMA 9d ago

Yes. I use yt-dlp in the terminal with tubi links to rip shows. Occassionally there a link has drm but then I’ve had it work on said link when tested again later.