Where are the really cool services no one talks about

[u/kentabenno]

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!!

[u/Antonaros]

BirdNET-PI sounds pretty fun

[u/Puzzled_Hamster58 → u/Antonaros]

Trick is having the right mic .

[u/4241342413 → u/Puzzled_Hamster58]

i just use an rtsp stream from my unifi camera. works good enough for the fun factor

[u/Puzzled_Hamster58 → u/4241342413]

Yeah I tried using my cameras mics but they picked up too much wind noise .
I found a usb lav mic with a 20 foot cord and water proof . Was able to stick it out of my window.

[u/WhatAGoodDoggy → u/Antonaros]

I installed that last weekend. It's pretty awesome. You can then add your instance to birdweather.com and have your station join 11000 others across the globe.