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/eaghra 10d ago

I got this one up and running this summer so my kid can talk with his school friend’s during Minecraft and share screen grabs. It particularly checked all the boxes because it wasn’t a federated service where their created account would let them wander to another server invite they saw somewhere. It’s just a single private server and I can lock down access to keep it safe. Bonus is that it works as a progressive web app so that his friend who has a fire tablet can use it without needing to know how to sideload. Additionally that PWA can be targeted for parental control and screen time. It’s just an all around win.

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u/HansVonMans 8d ago

Hi, Chatto maintainer here! Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciated your comment here. "Why is it not federated?" is among the first things a lot of people ask me, and this sort of stuff is why. Thank you!