apps that changed your life

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/selfhosted

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  • SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • mealie

    Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor

    One I don't see mentioned yet: Mealie recipe manager. With recipes so easy to access (and share), I'm finding myself cooking more often. Healthier than eating out and it's also time/cooking I enjoy with my family.

  • rclone

    "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files

    rclone and chisel. rclone is a high quality swiss-army knife for selfhosting. It does a lot of things and it does all of those things surprisingly well. chisel provides an TCP/UDP tunnel over websockets. When heroku used to be free, I had a couple of chisel instances running on Heroku, which I would use, occasionally, to quickly access any of my locally hosted apps or servers.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • chisel

    A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP

    rclone and chisel. rclone is a high quality swiss-army knife for selfhosting. It does a lot of things and it does all of those things surprisingly well. chisel provides an TCP/UDP tunnel over websockets. When heroku used to be free, I had a couple of chisel instances running on Heroku, which I would use, occasionally, to quickly access any of my locally hosted apps or servers.

  • FreshRSS

    A free, self-hostable news aggregator…

    Picking a good RSSReader (FreshRSS, yarr) and finding out ways to get good feeds (rssbridge, fivefilters) was a game changer. I get much more diverse information, and that I decide what I see (opposed to some algorithms).

  • yarr

    yet another rss reader

    Picking a good RSSReader (FreshRSS, yarr) and finding out ways to get good feeds (rssbridge, fivefilters) was a game changer. I get much more diverse information, and that I decide what I see (opposed to some algorithms).

  • RSS Fulltext Proxy

    Get full-text content for any RSS-feed.

  • fivefilters-full-text-rss-docker

    Unofficial Docker image for the fivefilters Full-Text RSS service

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • actual-server

    Actual's server

    Home Assistant and more recently Actual to know when I can buy more gadget for HA :)

  • mealie

    I think Mealie, Planka, and AgenDAV (backend)/Sabre (frontend) would allow you to do all those things self-hosted, albeit not all in one place.

  • sabre/dav

    sabre/dav is a CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV framework for PHP

    I think Mealie, Planka, and AgenDAV (backend)/Sabre (frontend) would allow you to do all those things self-hosted, albeit not all in one place.

  • AgenDAV

    A CalDAV web client similar to Google Calendar

    I think Mealie, Planka, and AgenDAV (backend)/Sabre (frontend) would allow you to do all those things self-hosted, albeit not all in one place.

  • Planka

    The realtime kanban board for workgroups built with React and Redux.

    I think Mealie, Planka, and AgenDAV (backend)/Sabre (frontend) would allow you to do all those things self-hosted, albeit not all in one place.

  • openhab-addons

    Add-ons for openHAB

    OpenHab: (https://www.openhab.org/) I prefer it than HomeAssitant, more beautiful (IMO), more simple

  • Nginx Proxy Manager

    Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

    nginx Proxy Manager (https://nginxproxymanager.com/): no file configuration, auto https configuration, I can set up new app on my server with https very quickly.

  • ErsatzTV

    Stream custom live channels using your own media

    One that I never see mentioned is https://github.com/jasongdove/ErsatzTV

  • audiobookshelf

    Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

    audiobookshelf ,this app helped me start listening to audiobooks. And wow, the experience I've had with it is flawless. Works all the time, and it has reduced my music listening time so much. And I learn so many new things from the audio books.

  • RSS-Bridge

    The RSS feed for websites missing it

    I dont know if this is what you talk about, but rss-bridge has a function to filter an rss feed for items that include or exclude a word (or regular expression)

  • paperless_app

    An Android/iOS app for Paperless

  • cgm-remote-monitor

    nightscout web monitor

    Nightscout for monitoring blood glucose levels: https://github.com/nightscout/cgm-remote-monitor

  • stash

    An organizer for your porn, written in Go. Documentation: https://docs.stashapp.cc

    Speaking of which, stash is great self-hosted option for organizing that stuff.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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