Hi all,

question to you: How many of your selfhosted Apps are improving your life? Which apps are you really using on a daily/weekly basis?

Many of my running containers are just for … running containers.

Portainer, Nginx Proxy Manager, Authentik, Uptime-Kuma, Wireguard … they are not improving my life, they are only improving Selfhosting. But we are not doing selfhosting just for the sake of it? Do we? …

Many of my running containers … are getting replaced by Open Source client software eventually

  • I’ve installed Trilium Notes - but I’m using Obsidian (more plugins, mobile apps, easy backup)
  • I’ve installed Vikunja - but I’m using Obisdian (connecting tasks with notes is more powerful)
  • I’ve installed Snapdrop - but I’m using LocalSend (more reliable)
  • I’ve installed Bitwarden - but I’m using KeePass (easy backups, better for SSH credentials)
  • I’ve installed AdGuard - but I’m using uBlock (more easy to disable for Shopping etc.)

So the few Selfhosted Apps, that improve my life

File Management

  • Paperless NGX - all my documents are scanned and archived here
  • Nextcloud - all my files accessible via WebUI (& replaced Immich/Photoprism with Photos plugin)
  • Syncthing - all my files synchroniced between devices and Nextcloud
  • Kopia - Backup of all my files encrypted into the cloud

And that’s a little bit sad, right? The only “Job to be done” self-hosting is a solution for me is … file management. Nothing else.

What are your experiences? How makes self-hosting your life better?

( I’m not using selfhosting for musc / movies / series nowadays, as streaming is more convenient for me and I’m doing selfhosting mainly because of privacy and not piracy reasons - so that usecase is not included in my list ;)My only SmartHome usecase is Philips Hue - and I’m controlling it with Android Tasker )

  • Proximus88@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I run paperless-ngx in a docker container. Have it scan my email for attachments once a day. It automatically tags the email depending on keywords found in the email and sender.

    If I scan a document to import I tag it manually.

    But paperless-ngx also has ocr, so it will scan the whole page and save that data. So I can search for example ‘samsung’ and it will show me all documents where Samsung is in. Even if it is not tagged.

    My docker-compose:

    version: "3.3"
    
    networks:
      paperless:
           name: paperless
           driver: bridge
           ipam:
            config:
              - subnet: 172.36.0.0/16
    
    services:
      paperless-redis:
        container_name: paperless-redis
        image: docker.io/library/redis:7
        restart: unless-stopped
        networks:
          - paperless
        volumes:
          - ./redis:/data
       
    
      paperless-db:
        container_name: paperless-db
        image: docker.io/library/postgres:13
        restart: unless-stopped
        networks:
          - paperless
        volumes:
          - ./db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
        environment:
          POSTGRES_DB: paperlessdb
          POSTGRES_USER: paperless
          POSTGRES_PASSWORD: super-secure-password
    
      paperless:
        container_name: paperless
        image: ghcr.io/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx:latest
        restart: unless-stopped
        networks:
          - paperless
        depends_on:
          - paperless-db
          - paperless-redis
        ports:
          - 8002:8000
        healthcheck:
          test: ["CMD", "curl", "-fs", "-S", "--max-time", "2", "http://localhost:8000"]
          interval: 30s
          timeout: 10s
          retries: 5
        volumes:
          - ./data:/usr/src/paperless/data
          - ./media:/usr/src/paperless/media
          - ./export:/usr/src/paperless/export
          - ./consume:/usr/src/paperless/consume
        env_file: ./docker-compose.env
        environment:
          PAPERLESS_REDIS: redis://paperless-redis:6379
          PAPERLESS_DBHOST: paperless-db
    
    

    The .en file you can find on there GitHub. But the over important part is to setup a language for it.

    # The default language to use for OCR. Set this to the language most of your
    # documents are written in.
    PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE=nld