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Foundry VTT (I know it's technically for a game but it's technically a virtual tabletop and not a game itself)
AI Chatbots for tech support
I technically self-host an image generation AI through my main home PC, but that's made less accessable and only on when I specifically demand it via ssh lol
Occasionally I'll throw a temp website up for local events for like event schedules or whatever, an easily accessable and editable html file or whatever
Foundry was the 2nd thing i started self hosting (the first being pihole). Have had it running for 5 years now.
Other than that i only recently started expanding my self hosting:
Calendar and contacts (i.e. CalDAV/CardDAV). A blog. Media is just remote-mounted since all my systems are Linux.
I'm always leery of "one app for all" solutions, or in German, "eierlegende Wollmilchsau".
Hence, no Nextcloud for me.
I keep everything documented, along with my infrastructure as code stuff. Briefly:
edit: plus a few things that do not have a web UI.
SearXNG, Forgejo, Linkwarden, Vaultwarden, copyparty, all the Servarr apps, qBittorrent and SABnzbd for downloads, Syncthing, Mastodon, and all the various containers like databases and other tools that support the aforementioned.
Baikal for calendar, todo and contact syncing
Forgejo for version control
Silverbullet for markdown notes
FreshRSS for aggregated news
Linkding for bookmarks
Actual budget, nextcloud
Depends on what you consider self-hosted. Web applications I use over LAN include Home Assistant, NextRSS, Syncthing, cockpit-machines (VM host), and media stuff (Jellyfin, Kavita, etc). Without web UI, I also run servers for NFS, SMB, and Joplin sync. Nothing but a Wireguard VPN is public-facing; I generally only use it for SSH and file transfer but can access anything else through it.
I've had NextCloud running for a year or two but honestly don't see much point and will probably uninstall it.
I've been planning to someday also try out Immich (photo sync), Radicale (calendar), ntfy.sh, paperless-ngx, ArchiveBox (web archive), Tube Archivist (YouTube archive), and Frigate NVR.
Immich and Radicale definitely recommended. I've still got paperless-ng and plan to move to paperless-ngx as soon as I find the time. I've also got firefly-iii which is a big revolution to how I manage personal finance. Even my 17 old son has got into it ... He couldn't understand where all his hard earnings were going.
KitchenOwl is my latest addition and I am getting a lot of use out of it - s/o and I use it to share a grocery shopping list, slowly starting to add my recipes to it as well. I used to use a shared google keep list but KitchenOwl works a lot better.
Like others have mentioned, Actual is great. Couldn’t recommend it enough for anyone looking to start budgeting. Others I run but haven’t seen mentioned yet: ChangeDetection, Adguard Home, Homepage, BambuStudio, and Statistics-for-strava
Been thinking about adding NextCloud mostly for the Google Docs/MS Office replacement at some point.
But honestly most of my stuff is just for me, my family prefers to to use whatever commercial thing is out there. So I tend to limit things to infrastructure type things that are of personal interest to me alone.
And then the list goes on and on. Like prometheus, grafana, uptime Kuma, mariadb, Valkey, postgresql, unbound dns, all those things..
Besides a media server, I self host my email, a blog, an IRC bouncer, syncthing, SPFToolbox, and in my house I run ADS-B plane tracking.
All these. I just added calibre web and may phase out Kavita.
What interface is that, it looks great!
That's TrueNas. It can run docker compose files so I'm abusing the crap out of what it's supposed to do haha.
Are books not media?
I was thinking through my list, and almost mentioned Calibre Web, but decided it's media related.
searxng an matrix both on a vps an public an everything else i host local an are not on the web
vaultwarden, ntfy
Actually Budget for finances, Nextcloud for everything office and organization, Home Assistant for home automation, paperless--ngx for storing and sorting documents, freshrss for news, ntfy.sh for notifications.