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What things do you self host (or know about) that are fun/interesting/useful to you? I'm thinking of setting up a home server and am looking for things that would be useful or fun for me to run on it. I want to host things that are useful/fun, but not a project itself (I've got enough projects), if that makes sense.

Most of the lists I see online are mostly lists of technical projects like docker, kubernetes, grafana, nginx, etc. I see these as infrastructure rather than the interesting project itself. ETA: the infra is important, but not "interesting" in this context as I deal with infra at my day job.

Examples of the type of service I'm looking at: a media server, photos app (to replace Google Photos), game servers, recipe management, home automation... What other things do you know about that are fun/interesting/useful?

Edit: thank you everyone for your awesome responses!

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[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Is there documentation and stuff for an Android app to be built? I might be interested in building one.

[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

https://github.com/sfortis/frigate-viewer

This is the closest thing to an android app, but it just adds a check to see if you're on your local network or not. Other than that, it's just a web frontend.

The frigate documentation also has some info about installing it as an app, but either I'm doing it wrong or it's the equivalent of a bookmark on my homescreen.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, that's a progressive web app, not a native Android app. I'll check it out, I have a few cameras I want to play with.