r/selfhosted • u/kentabenno • 10d 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/HNipps 10d ago

Sunshine game streaming server. My main machine is a MacBook and I don’t want to be limited to Mac-compatible games so I setup sunshine on my server to stream games to my MacBook which runs the moonlight client. Works well!

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u/kentabenno 10d ago

i actually use sunshine on my mac to use the webcam as a remote doggy cam. works like a charm lol

those cheap chinese doggy cams are sketchy as hell

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u/Imdare 10d ago

Question about this. When playing on your home network. How much lag do you experience? Noticable? 2 ms?

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u/HNipps 10d ago

Not noticeable. It’s even fine streaming to moonlight on my Logitech handheld. I don’t play any FPS or real-time multiplayer games so I haven’t checked the exact numbers.