1 yr. ago • 77%

What products do you wish you could self-host?

This hasn't been asked in a while, and I really loved reading the last discussion so I'm hoping to kick it off again and see what has changed!

What I'd like to know is:

- What specific products do you wish you could host on your own infrastructure, but the product does not offer such a deployment method

- Do you or would you use the product without being able to self-host? I.E. In its current state

- Do you think your employer, if any, holds the same opinions?

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Google maps alternative that's as good as Google maps. Its the only service left that has kept me from degoogling 100%

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Private uncesored version of GPT-4.

I want it to answer questions like:

- give me a step by step guide on how to build a hydrogen bomb using consumer-grade components.

- give me 20 jokes about wokism (I'm semi-woke myself)

- give me 10 jokes that are so horrible, they would put anyone posting them on a watch-list

More realistically, I want it to have access to an entire programming project via IDE

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I would love to see a self-hosted VDE solution. We have a ton of VM options so I'd like to see the next logical step.

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Any MDM solution. All self-hosted options that were available (onemdm, flyve) are dead. I'm my own employer, so we definitely agree everything should be self-hosted :)

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I'd love to see what I could do with things I need GPS accuracy for geofencing like robot lawn mowing or keeping dogs inside my yard without a fence. Specifically reporting to me via push notifications when something is wrong or dog has left the yard.

I know of no such solution without a subscription at least for the dog fence. Last I looked at robot lawn mowers was Open Mower. I don't know how much that project has grown.

My employer wouldn't care, self hosting has become a hobby.

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a budgeting app with ease of use for desktop and mobile

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Want to selfhost AI assistent with that can work with my desktop OS.

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Mint

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An alternative to ring, wish I could self host the video recordings from the doorbell camera.

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Two for me

Fleetio - with a family member who collects cars and farm vehicles, things like Hammond are not of much use, points if it can integrate withe Traccar

GreatPetCare (Previously PawPrint) given its now free after its sale, we are now the product. Plus it has lost useability IMHO since its change

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An embedded system flasher station. Connect on mini PC desk with multiple ports, flash the embedded systems from any device. A vscode extension would be nice too.

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Maps with turn by turn directions.

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Sports Organization Management. The only ones I have seen have not had many updates lately, zuluru and doubleheader.

I was able to get zuluru to run via docker but had to really play with it and use older docker images for mysql and its php base image as the repo's docker compose file relied on latest tags. It has a lot of nice features for managing a team org but its UI is rather simple/dated. https://github.com/Zuluru/Zuluru3

Have not gotten doubleheader up yet but plan to try soon but its repo has not been updated for almost 3yrs. https://github.com/harisjlatif/doubleheader

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OneNote. Yes, I know, NextCloud, Joplin, etc. But there isn’t really anything with everything - handwriting, voice recognition/dictation, etc.

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Sentry, on ARM64 and/or less ram

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This hasn't been asked for a while

This is quite a similar question from two days ago.

This question was also part of a survey this month.

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I would love a local Alexa clone.

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As it has been stated before, I miss a good selfhosted mobile MDM. Maybe one day, Fleet will be able to do that!

This is a nice, but I also would love to see a digital music marketing tool (like linkfire, amplify, where you can presave your music to Spotify/Apple Music,...). There is literally no project for that (yet).

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Something like Steam. I've got a bunch of old games and other software, CDs, floppy images, etc., with registration keys and so forth (sometimes multiples), as well as newer stuff I got through Humble Bundle, or even various free/open source games, servers, etc., but installing them can be a pain. I'd like something that could host the files, list the games, and install them on a whim, along with self-hosted "cloud" storage so I can switch between computers easily. I already use Steam, of course, but it doesn't host my old games, at least not without paying them for the privilege. My boss... Would probably be interested, actually. Not business related, but still.

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A proper inventory system. Homebox still too limited and others are to complex or too much asset management focused.

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Push notifications on my phone.

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A decent fitness watch

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Something better than RedMine.

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What you really mean is de-google 100%, and that's impossible.

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Email, without facing all those problems of ending on a spam list and being blacklisted.

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One of the advantages of selfhosting is that I can cut down on subscriptions. Unfortunately, I cannot find an RSS reader with powerful filters and rules like Inoreader. I've tried FreshRSS but it's just not as powerful as Inoreader.

I wish I could selfhost Inoreader.

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discord or something like teamspeak with screen sharing

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ChatGPT. I want it to have full access to my mail, contacts, photos, videos, git repositories, and I want to be sure it's not leaving my premises not matter what. I want to say 'find my letter to my former boss where I was talking about infra', and it find the letter where is no word 'boss', 'infra', or 'former', and it is the letter I was searching.

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Discord servers

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something like OneNote (typing, writing, drawing... all collaboratively)

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My own web index so I wouldn't have to use a search engine

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Factorialhr.io

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Self-hosted alternative to Google Street View (with the ability to upload own street views of course).

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Discord, hands down

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My own AI assistant on the level of Google home or Alexa

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An e-reading web app support for (at least) epub and PDF files, usable on both desktop and mobile screens, capable of adding and reviewing highlights and annotations. Koobo comes close. But isn't usable on mobile.

And yes I've tried many options, both selfhosted and cloud based.

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Teams with sharepoint and office functions

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I have an openssh server and i want to access it remptely. Port forwarding is blocked by my isp and i use the unifi debug terminal to ssh into the server. But isnt there a tool that does the similar but designed to do it instead of this workaround? If ubiquity stopped this feature, id be f.

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A FileMaker equivalent, something I can run a database server at home and enter data via an iPad/iPhone

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A web-based mail client (not server!) with a backend optimized for search queries. I get hundreds of mails per day and often I have to check whether something was discussed in some thread, in the last couple of years, or more. Thunderbird explodes, Outlook seems better, but it forces me to run Windows on my desktop and laptop. GMail is actually great, but it would be immoral in too many different ways to flush all the emails I receive into Google. Colleagues reported Apple Mail is good, but I have no direct experience.

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I wish my fossil hybrid watch could be self hosted so my health data and location aren't sent to fossil

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A powerful AI model.

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Not exactly fitting, probably, but self-hosted sync for Chromium browsers. Not xbrowsersync, but full-fledged, like Mozilla's, with syncing extension settings, sending tabs, etc.

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Google photos (I know about prism and have it, still not the same)

email... Fuuuck all you spammer asshomes, I just wanna host my own email 😭

Steam but for my own local games and isos

maps

Did I already say email?
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Workflowy and Loom

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A good RMM solution with scripting options. Ie. Labtech, etc.

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I'd love a replacement for AppSheet using BaseRow.

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