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What products do you wish you could self-host? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This hasn't been asked in a while, and I really loved reading the last discussion so I'm hoping to kick it off again and see what has changed!

What I'd like to know is:

- What specific products do you wish you could host on your own infrastructure, but the product does not offer such a deployment method

- Do you or would you use the product without being able to self-host? I.E. In its current state

- Do you think your employer, if any, holds the same opinions?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Something like Steam. I've got a bunch of old games and other software, CDs, floppy images, etc., with registration keys and so forth (sometimes multiples), as well as newer stuff I got through Humble Bundle, or even various free/open source games, servers, etc., but installing them can be a pain. I'd like something that could host the files, list the games, and install them on a whim, along with self-hosted "cloud" storage so I can switch between computers easily. I already use Steam, of course, but it doesn't host my old games, at least not without paying them for the privilege. My boss... Would probably be interested, actually. Not business related, but still.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There was something released a while back similar to what you're after. It had a funny name, I think it was crack pipe and then they changed it due to well the name of it but I can't for the life of me remember what it was

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How was it call before? The url is game vault already 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

They originally called it something like crackpipe as they said it was for those games you acquired "elsewhere"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hi, GameVault developer here. Can confirm. It's exactly what you are looking for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I need this, but with a client for like DOS or Windows 98

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Could I use a MariaDB for this? Already have one setup with backups etc, would rather use that, than also setup a postgres with backups

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm sorry. It only supports PostgreSQL and SQLITE atm.