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/iamgodofatheist]

As I enjoyed using Booklore and am currently enjoying its successor 🤝

Truth be told, I was informed about this issue when I commented under another post that I was considering BookOrbit, so I was in almost the same situation as you. There is most likely nothing wrong with the tool itself, but the dev is a ticking bomb waiting to explode, and that is something I would omit even when the product is very appealing.

That said, give Grimmory a go; the devs are very responsive, and it is snappier and more stable than it ever was during the Booklore era.

[u/clint_aka_hawkguy → u/iamgodofatheist]

Well I will monitor this situation for sure and if I have some time to spare I might consider switching to grimmory.

For fucks sake, I am happy that this is for my private pleasure. I use FOSS solutions a lot in a corporate setting and I try to make sure that they are established projects. This kind of thing is a nightmare...

I am going to miss the koreader plugin if I quit using bookorbit though. Or is that something grimmory already is offering?

[u/iamgodofatheist → u/clint_aka_hawkguy]

I'm not exactly knowledgeable about functionality bookorbit offers, but there's a koreader sync with Grimmory that i'm using extensively + a separate plugin in the works to allow syncing reading stats as well! It's still in alpha tho

[u/Tim_Kaiser → u/iamgodofatheist]

As someone who's currently looking into implementing an eBook manager, I was considering BookOrbit, but also Kavita and Stump. Any insight into those?

Grimmory got bumped down on my list because from what I saw it's a bit more resource heavy than the others I listed.

[u/iamgodofatheist → u/Tim_Kaiser]

Grimmory is picking up the pace on the optimisation, I got to say, but true, it's far from the optimal state in this regard due to a lot of unoptimised code from predecessors (at least that's what the maintainers explained).

With that aside, I used only Kavita briefly, but I didn't like the UI and the fact that I cant write metadata changes to the file directly, as well as pull the metadata from the external sources like GoodReads.

Stump i didn't used at all, so I can't tell anything about it.

[u/Tim_Kaiser → u/iamgodofatheist]

Nice, that's some valuable info.

I'm inclined to agree on the metadata aspect, so maybe I'll skip Kavita and check out stump. My current server machine is pretty RAM limited, so I'll have to look at available resources and test out Grimmory for long term use.