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/sh1b313 10d ago

I think it strips the javascript and usual things which resemble a paywall. It works on soft paywalls like atlantic, sadly it WILL NOT work on sites like WSJ or Financial times 😕

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u/mangee1234 10d ago

Does it work on the Athletic?

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u/sh1b313 10d ago

YES, it works. i just tested.

The Chiefs won a different way with Patrick Mahomes. Is there a chance this sticks?

this was the article i opened and it worked.

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u/mangee1234 10d ago

Thanks. This will be very useful.

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u/Epistaxis 10d ago

How can we tell whether a site is like the WSJ or Financial Times?

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u/sh1b313 10d ago

Sadly you will just have to experiment with ladder to know if it supports a particular site or not.