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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    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?

    I use:

    • Immich for photo hosting
    • Jellyfin and navidrome for media (video and audio)
    • Calibre and calibre-web for ebooks
    • Minecraft server
    • Mealie for recipes.
    • Home assistant for automation
    • Habitica for habit forming
    • And I have fpp for my Christmas lights (the application is xlights, fpp is the server that runs the scripts)

    All of these I like.