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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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[–] Girgoo@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] ayokas@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Check Out r/LocalLLaMA for that.

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[–] ExoWire@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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[–] Mavyre@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I see this post more open to company selfhosting, whereas the post you mentioned focuses on homelabs. I've got both homelab and company servers, and the selfhosted needs differ a lot.

[–] EndlessHiway@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

In a while, means they just didn't bother to look before posting.

[–] Mavyre@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

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).

[–] hypercyanate@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] vijaykes@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

There's pinewatch https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/ but I guess it'll be a hike to make it work decently

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[–] Ronbruins@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] MuffelMonster@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] xzxfdasjhfhbkasufah@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] amarao_san@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] pb4000@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Not self-hosted, but sounds a lot like [Rewind](https://www.rewind.ai/). Pretty cool project, and it seems like they take privacy and security seriously. I still want to be able to self-host it though. Would feel much safer.

[–] yzydog@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] pepitorious@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] pepitorious@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Simple HR management software for small companies. Everything I've tried is way overkill

[–] Acayukes@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] TBT_TBT@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

This is obviously not possible, as it is a huge undertaking to do that for the whole world. There is "Street View" in Apple Maps as well, btw.

And even if it were possible to "self host" Google Street View, its image dataset is estimated at 115 PB. So you you kinda would need to have a little bit of space on your homeserver.

[–] LittleOmid@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Discord, hands down

[–] iroQuai@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] WaaaghNL@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Teams with sharepoint and office functions

[–] TBT_TBT@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nextcloud with NC Talk and OnlyOffice Plugin.

[–] WaaaghNL@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I never got a love for nextcloud. It fails me every time i try it out.

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[–] Sudo_Kill_Me@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] adampetherick@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] pyppo42@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] 10322@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] rickydg80@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

From a work perspective, the whole Microsoft 365 ecosystem, including sharepoint, AD, Power Platform, Office Apps.

I know most of it is technically doable from a FOSS perspective, but it’s all so fragmented. I’m starting to really leverage Power Platforms at work now and really hate the fact I’m learning and using MS shite! The documentation is so poor, and the limitations when you hit them are bizarre and often inexplicable :(

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