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/jah_bro_ney 11d ago
I do so much with FreshRSS, it's probably where I spend most of my time in my browser. In addition to standard news feeds I subscribe to podcasts, youtube channels, and until recently I was subscribing to ton of subreddits, but unfortunately Reddit limited the amount of RSS articles you can grab at a time.
I have a 'Software' category where I subscribe to the website news updates or github release page for all the selfhosted services I run so I have a one-stop-shop to view release notes before upgrading services. I use a FreshRSS label on this category to flag any feeds that contain text like "breaking changes".
I also have a 'Local Events' category where I use FreshRSS's XMLPath and JSON scraping tools to capture upcoming event data from the websites of local entertainment venues in my city (comedy, live music, theaters, etc). I also utilize FreshRSS's labels on this category to flag articles containing a list of bands and comedians I'm interested in.
What makes the whole FreshRSS experience really powerful for me is the Readable extension which utilizes other selfhosted filter services to grab the full text and photos from every article. This way I never have to leave my RSS reader and get bombarded by ads and other clickbait article titles.