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Hi guys! I was wondering:

What self hosted software are you missing? What would you which existed?

Background: I am a quite Senior Dev and have 6 months between gigs. Would be fun to start a side project to keep my skills sharp.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's been suggested before, but I'll echo it. We need a Portainer competitor with different goals. Fork Portainer & sail the seas. I think you'll find a lot of hidden support here from other developers. Portainer not acknowledging backup/recovery is a major gap IMO. Proxmox has Proxmox Backup Server, where is my Portainer Backup Server? Good luck!

[–] jws_shadotak 1 points 1 year ago

Hi could you make a AI that does menial tasks on those beer money websites to make me money and also does my taxes for me and can do really good stock trading? Also I told my family they could have this for Christmas so please have this ready soon thanks

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

A gift registry for multiple users. Would be great for Xmas

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might want to have a look at MonicaHQ.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Monicahq is a personal CRM. You can share some info publicly. Unless I missed that feature. I have yet to find an open source gift registry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It has a completely ungoogleable name for english-speaking people, but poenskelisten is that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I want a web UI version of https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker

ie I want a Docker container that lets you manage other containers running on the same host. I've looked into Portainer and other tools but they're all too big and catered towards container deployment (which I think is dumb, my container deployments are configured with version controlled files).

One of Lazydocker's best features is the ability to exec into a container with the press of a button. I'd love to be able to do that via a web UI instead of sshing into my host and then exec'ing into my container.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good multiuser Google photos-esque webui that can work with my existing photo collection.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A good SamsungNotes-like self hosted web app with Android/ios clients and pen support would be GREAT

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have been looking for something like that as well for years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

An extension to Nextcloud Notes would sufficate. You already have an app and a good architecture to extend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can't you use obsidian for that ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using rNote, doesn't have a web interface but works great for me

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

yeah me too, i really like it, but no phone/tablet support :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After all of the hype about various GPT’s, I still can not find the one thing I’ve been looking for from the start:

A completely local and private LLM on M-series Mac that can ingest and learn from all of my sent mail (from Mac mail) along with any documents I manually add and answer new emails or write other documents in my voice/as me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's because LLMs don't do that.

The companies that offer those services basically do some tricks behind the curtain.

Like let's say you want an LLM to learn your corporate docs. LLMs can't do that because they need millions of text from across the internet just to learn to speak English.. You can't feed your 1000 docs and 10,000 emails in and point to it and say "Forget the billion documents you injested and pay attention to this.... but also retain the ability to speak English"

What they actually implement is a standard text search engine, that returns matching paragraphs from the relevant documents, prompts to LLM with something like "This paragraph may contain an answer to user question X. If it does, please paraphrase it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, that’s exactly what I want it to do

Most of my 60-70 email replies per day are answered in almost the exact same way

I want it to read an email and then, using paragraphs or sentences from my previous emails, automatically generate a response

There are already companies out there who are generating what they term small language models - basically hybrid models of say gpt 3.5 plus a large volume of corporate data - but they are all cloud based

Others offer plugins to help answer your emails

I’d like a combination of the same to run locally

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are already companies out there who are generating what they term small language models - basically hybrid models of say gpt 3.5 plus a large volume of corporate data - but they are all cloud based

I think you will find most of these are not small language models, but are instead the thing I said above - a llm like gpt + a search engine. Even small language models require millions of texts and only perform very specialised tasks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OBDII web ui that can interface with bluetooth or wifi elm327. I don't need apps on my phone taking up battery tracking my whole trip. All I need is a quick update when I'm within wifi or bluetooth range to give all the important data of my choosing in one quick burst. If there is a observer page I can have home assistant scrape from it. Torque is just not ideal for my use, I am currently one of the few users of it in home assistant but will not be using it any more just because it's kind of a pain in the butt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Self Hosted version of

https://www.filejuggler.com/

With WebUI.

Can connect to your local, self hosted or cloud storage and manipulate files.

Yes there is a few options for automation, but they all require scripting your automation, and while that's fine for a lot of people, for others that will always be a dead end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, what I'm missing is I wish Keybase would release their server source code.

Zoom has ran that software into the ground and buried keybase in a pile of sh*t. It would be like 10 Christmases in one if someone reversed the client to create an open-source server solution or Zoom released the server code for keybase.

I love Keybase. Absolutely love that program. I HATE the company who owns it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m going to go on a rant here but:
DIGTAL SIGNAGE

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

VLC can do a lot of digital signage tasks on its own. I built out a raspberry pi for a startup that would just plug into a TV and run whatever videos were on the device, or slideshow through pics if no vids were there.

Add a touch of rsync or similar, and you're pretty much set for everything I can think of for digital signage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can help and contribute on https://gamevau.lt, any help would be appreciated

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Create a "universal" installer of sorts that can install many different OS'es and apps on them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What I would love right now is a self hosted alternative to https://mentimeter.com or something similar that you can create quizzes and the students can interact with them just like mentimeter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Please!!! I’ve been waiting for someone to work on this project to delete watched/unwatched media on my Plex server

https://www.reddit.com/r/Softwarr/s/IVToUI4cmA

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Couple of tools ive wanted

  1. Proper car service history tracking thing that allows you to create a vehicle, then log services/repairs/consumables with dates, prices, locations, maybe even upload the invoices etc. Bonus points if it can generate a PDF service report for when its time to sell the car. Could also integrate chosen service intervals etc so you can view what milages things are next due. I did see hammond but it feels more operational cost logging focused (eg fuel expenses)

  1. A computer bench marking system where you can create a configuration, add a benchmark type, then record the benchmark results. This could then make pretty graphs etc to compare different configurations/benchmarks
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A better GUI for portainer that support app stores and stuff like that. Something like a self hosted app store based on docker compose, easy to install, easy to maintain and configure. And with reverse proxy support for containers and app. Good UI/UX is hard to find here. Closest I found is runtipi.io but still misses some details and options for running apps.

I myself am trying to build something like but having a hard time coming up with a sufficiently good design and UX (for my standards)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How about this idea:

You have a interface for youtube or local media library (if you use youtubedl) and you can create playlists of videos, and THEN you can watch them and, while watching, add timestamped comments / notes etc (think about comments on soundcloud, only for you only). It would be ideal for self-learning platform - you download some courses for offline watching and you can then create timestamped notes etc per video. Later you can revisits this videos and go trough your own timestamps and reiterate and learn something in your own words and thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

a selfhosted version of Padlet. As a Highschoolteacher i would love this!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One note alternative. Writing, drawing, file dropping. Cross platform and real time syncing.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Garden manager. Put in your zone, pull information from web (not sure where but fields like light level, germination/fruiting times), link to a calendar and add custom scheduled items (monthly fertilizer, watering schedule maybe even based in local " of precipitation (if you've had 5" of rain, apply that to "outside group" but not "inside group" of plants, pull links to About information for wikipedia or other pages, maybe even highlights of cooking or medicinal uses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Think about reaching out to some charitable organizations - especially small ones like local pet reduces, food banks, social services, and so on - and volunteer your time.

They might be less interesting projects like updating a website or adding registration services, or you might do something interesting with data analysis, but it might have a huge impact for that organization and for the community.

You may also be able to deduct your donated time as a donation in kind for tax purposes, but talk to an accountant to get the details on how you’ll have to work that out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Built in requester for jellyfin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

currently use jellyseer, would rather something built into jellyfin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does a missing feature in existing Foss count?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Meh ... not really. ... I don't want to read hours of docs/architecture first, before I write code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A proper alternative to Quicken that truly supports importing existing Quicken data file and supports manual data entry. Nothing fancy such as downloading data from banks etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  1. open source social media management where its truly open source and no fee to schedule out video or picture posting. socioboard was out but the developer backed out. now mixpost is the enxt best but over $100 to have a verion thats anyuse to anyone really.
  2. a VIDEO AND PICTURE DAM like Adobe bridge but can run on a NAS box like PhotoPrism. The key would be the keywords, tags, exif, meta whatever you call it would be universal so the tags entered on my android phone using gallery or pixturesapp would show in the photo ai system so they can be searched upon. i dont mind goign to a web gui for everything and would be better if i could browse via network share or use with syncthing to keep all devices synced to this DAM.
  3. A live streaming platform that can be run on a DIY YoloBox! It needs to have easy connecting to the DRIFT API (gawd... if GoPro had this feature.... wooooo weee)
    https://us.driftinnovation.com/blogs/news/how-to-integrate-a-drift-camera-into-your-own-application
    One should be able to get a framework mainboard, touch screen lcd from ALI and a 3d printed case with a could hdmi to usbc dongels and be set to live stream with over 20 cameras! The drift Camera up to 11 can all connect to a wifi network and this software handles the obss linkage as well.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i wish a voip bridge client existed as a server. then proxies the call to me via element or telegram or discord

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly one that seems relevant in light of the last two weeks is a web gui / front end for a Linux based firewall similar to what pfsense/opnsense are for BSD. Yes, there's openwrt, but that's not what I'm going for.

It's kind of shocking that something like this doesn't exist (even in component pieces) for a Debian based distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm planning on starting something like that soon since I also wanna build my own router/firewall from scratch and couldn't be bothered to remember everything about iptables

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly firewall-config does a pretty decent job with the firewalling part of things, if you don't need anything too complicated. It's not web based, but can be run over ssh without too much of an install footprint.

I think the way to go here would actually be to integrate some plugins with cockpit-project, which already has some of what you'd need.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A more simple version of https://drammer.com No need for barcode scanning, I think I would want it more like inventory management - bottles I own, what I paid, tasting notes

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