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My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024

by beardicus on 1/9/25, 1:22 PM with 33 comments

• by dchuk on 1/10/25, 4:31 AM

  Here’s a business idea for someone: find the best open source/self hosted business and start up tools (such as a chat app, a project management tool, a wiki, etc) and offer startups a managed hosting service of those selected apps. Toss up a cheap but decent vps per client, run some open source monitoring tools for yourself, price as a flat rate per app under management (vs scaling rate of a per user seat in most SaaS products).

  Seems like a pretty damn easy lifestyle business that many early startups would find valuable because it saves them money and the headache of doing it themselves.

• by cowmix on 1/9/25, 4:51 PM

  I love, love all the energy in the ‘self-hosting’ space. These apps are all that stand between us and the cloud hegemony goin' on.

• by c54 on 1/9/25, 4:46 PM

  I’m interested in the alternative YouTube front ends like Pinchflat and Glance mentioned here. Ideally I’d avoid scrolling the YouTube homepage while still giving views and likes/subscribed to the creators I watch, because it helps support them (to what degree exactly I’m not sure but it seems like the right thing to do). I do find the archiving/downloading case meaningful as well, since a few yt vids that I enjoyed have been taken down over the years.

  But.. reducing mindless scrolling while still giving me a way to follow content I care about seems good.

  Does anyone have experience with using these? Are there alternate tools which are better than the ones listed here?

• by aitchnyu on 1/10/25, 5:39 AM

  The idle sleep feature of Go Proxy could be a gamechanger since cheap servers can host lots of infrequently used apps. Guess it should become the standard and extend to background processes too, like a PM2 or Systemd.

  https://github.com/yusing/go-proxy?tab=readme-ov-file#idlesl...

• by aendruk on 1/9/25, 4:54 PM

  What’s the purpose of appending ?ref=selfh.st to every outgoing link? Generally you can’t just make up parameters for other people’s websites.

• by xnx on 1/9/25, 4:52 PM

  Self-hosting is such a crapshoot. The installation/setup process is completely bespoke for each different app. Self-hosting apps could have a real impact on overpriced SaaS if installation could be made as simple as installing a mobile app.

• by broknbottle on 1/9/25, 11:18 PM

  I’ve found Home Assistant and i’s add-ons systems a good way to self host without the fuss. If you need something that is not there you can create your own repo and it’s pretty easy to create your own add-on collection