What are some lesser known services that have made your life better?

• bitwarden_rs

  91 8,674 8.8 Rust

  Discontinued Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs [Moved to: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden]

BitwardenRS - https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs

• pivpn-docker

  1 38 0.0 Shell

  Run PiVPN in a Container!

Looks like ljishen's docker image is abandoned tho, I opened an issue ( https://github.com/ljishen/pivpn-docker/issues/9 ) and discovered a fork that seems to be more updated https://github.com/xptsp/pivpn-docker

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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.

  

• openvpn-install

  109 11,890 3.7 Shell

  Set up your own OpenVPN server on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS or Arch Linux. (by angristan)

PiVPN, but also Angristan's install scripts are great too

• Invoice Ninja

  35 7,715 9.9 PHP

  Invoices, Expenses and Tasks built with Laravel, Flutter and React

  

• changedetection.io

  196 14,870 9.5 Python

  The best and simplest free open source web page change detection, website watcher, restock monitor and notification service. Restock Monitor, change detection. Designed for simplicity - Simply monitor which websites had a text change for free. Free Open source web page change detection, Website defacement monitoring, Price change notification

https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io Blowing my own trumpet a little, but the quality of information about what directly concerns I'm getting from using this is far surpassing anything from social media. Just being properly up-to-date with various government services, pages from uni, local government stuff, and various small artisan groups i'm in who dont have newsletter but sometimes (every few months) post blogs etc

• Tracks

  9 1,160 7.7 Ruby

  Tracks is a GTD™ web application, built with Ruby on Rails

  

Tracks - Getting Things Done (todo list) program written in Rails - https://www.getontracks.org/

• bbs

  71 3,134 2.8 Python

  Forum for discussing Internet censorship circumvention

  

Signal Proxy is broken according to people working on keeping Iran afloat the global internet: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/63

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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.

  

• Trilium Notes

  278 25,307 9.7 JavaScript

  Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

evernote is a bit of a different product imo and can totally see how it would be a problem for long term document storage. I used it more for a personal brain dump spot (recipes, how to do various tasks, research information). I have migrated that to Trilium for a while now and am way happier. https://github.com/zadam/trilium

• Clarkson

  2 124 0.0 TypeScript

  Web-based fuel logging dashboard

  

Yeah man - https://github.com/linuxserver/Clarkson/issues/21

• Bash-INWX-DynDNS

  1 57 0.0 Shell

  Small DynDNS script for domains registered at inwx.de

I'm behind a dynamic IP. In order to not pay my domain provider (InterNetworX) for their dynamic DNS service, I use a script I found on github to update DNS records periodically. Probably also possible for many other domain providers like Cloudflare, etc. (with other scripts, of course).

• filemanager

  304 23,611 8.7 Go

  📂 Web File Browser

  

Another lesser known thing I use is Filebrowser. I don't like NextCloud and I personally think it's absolutely overhyped. I don't want to start a fight here, though. All I want is a simple, yet functional and fast web interface for my files that I otherwise usually access and manage via NFS and Filebrowser is it. It's also regulary updated, etc.

• Baïkal

  37 2,340 6.8 PHP

  Baïkal is a Calendar+Contacts server

  

I use Baïkal as CalDAV / CardDAV server and manage my calendars and my todo lists (with many, many recurring tasks) using that. Works great in collaboration with Tasks for Android. On Android, I use DAVx⁵ to not only sync tasks, but calendars and contacts as well. Etar is a nice calendar that works with that.

• Outline

  194 24,001 9.9 TypeScript

  The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

  

Outline Wiki - https://www.getoutline.com/

• Wiki.js

  122 23,451 7.1 Vue

  Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js

  

https://js.wiki/ has helped me move away from Notion.

• Nginx Proxy Manager

  651 19,636 8.8 JavaScript

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

  

Nginx Proxy Manager

• paperless_share

  6 147 0.0 Dart

  Android App to share your documents with your Paperless server

I use Swiftscan and Paperless Share with my Android phone. Works well.

• minimalist-web-notepad

  4 975 6.2 PHP

  Minimalist Web Notepad

Minimalist Web Notepad

• minimal-web-notepad

  1 130 0.0 PHP

  Minimal PHP web notepad with password protection. All notes saved as text files.

That is correct, but there is also this fork that allows you to password protect notes as well as some other features.

• tailscale

  1,005 16,437 9.9 Go

  The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

  

It's not 100% self hosted but I use Tailscale to access all my homelab services without opening ports.

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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