10 quality-of-life services I self-host on my home lab
…Combine all three, and you’ve got an imposing setup that can help you create, store, and manage your notes. Firefly III Self-hosting a Firefly III instance is a great way…
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I replaced NotebookLM with a self-hosted alternative for a week, and it's good enough to make me hesitate
1d agoSelf-hosted photos are just the beginning — your book collection belongs on the same server
3d agoThis self-hosted streaming app just disrupted my entire gaming setup overnight, and I couldn't be happier
4d agoI ditched Claude Projects for a self-hosted setup that costs nothing and does more
1w agoThis self-hosted presentation tool does everything Canva does, and it costs nothing
…It’s self-hosted, AI-powered, and honestly more capable than I expected for something I spun up in Docker on a whim. It’s not the most obvious Canva replacement, but…
This tiny Docker container monitors my entire network and alerts me before things break
…start somewhere, and these self-hosted services are some of the best for beginners Dockerized watchman For me, the goal of a great home lab or network setup isn’t just to…
I turned my Raspberry Pi into a pocket Linux server that runs from a power bank, and it's weirdly useful
…self-hosted services on-the-go Although my pocket Raspberry Pi was more than ready on the containerization front, I still had to figure out the networking aspect of this setup. Unfortunately…
I stopped treating old phones like e-waste and started treating them like tiny servers
…I only use one phone daily, but after years of tinkering with home servers and self-hosted services, I started wondering why not use these old phones for the same purpose ? Even…
This self-hosted research tool does what NotebookLM does, but without the daily limits
…Since it's self-hosted, your data stays under your control rather than being locked into a third-party service. I expected the setup process to be complicated, but it was surprisingly…
My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
…These nice-to-have tools become an essential part that complements the self-hosted setup. The implementation is also straightforward. I deployed them on Docker Compose and accessed them via Cloudflare tunnels…
Your NAS is becoming a single point of failure, and consolidating everything onto it is the reason why
…LXCs require less overhead compared to a fully blown VM due to sharing the host kernel. Now, instead of firing up self-hosted apps and services within virtual machines on TrueNAS, an…
I had RAID, snapshots, and backups, but one thing almost cost me everything
…first got into self-hosting and invested in a NAS that could serve dedicated storage pools to all my devices, I built what I thought was an impressive setup. It's RAIDZ2…
This MCP Server turned my NAS into a self-hosted AI assistant, and it changed how I work
…Sign in to your XDA account Besides its centralized storage and backup provisions, my Network-Attached Storage is an important part of my self-hosted setup. I’ve mapped a bunch of…