For the lazy:
- Nextcloud
- Jellyfin
- Immich
- Vaultwarden / Bitwarden
- Uptime Kuma
- AdGuard Home
- Homepage
- Monica
- changedetection.io
Seems a decent selection.
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2026
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I hate products with generic names. It makes it utterly impossible to search for.
Even if this OP post might explain it, it is still useless when taken out of context like in the esteemed comment above this one.
/rant, sorry, thank you.
I'm gonna start a company that creates cheap life saving products called "Chris"
And the essential companion product, Potato.
On a slightly related note, if you ever want a blast of the past, check out the ASCII art section of chris.com
Its a CRM, i agree with the gripes about the name but tbf I'm kinda surprised to see it on here? The GitHub repo seems pretty dead
LOL. Back in the day I saw a band open for somebody and the band name was 'Bob.' Even in the early aughts searching for 'Bob' was a pointless activity. They eventually changed the name to Super Bob which is just as stupid but at least searchable.
Recently discovered changedetection.io. It nicely filled the need I had. I have it watching a few static forum posts for updates that are communicated that way.
I could never get it working right due to captchas on sites, its a beat idea though
I'm a little confused. It's this a self hosted program? Following the link I see a monthly subscription cost.
If you don't want to self host, they offer hosting.
Got it.
That seems pretty cool.
Oh wow.. My 10 year old python script may be replaced now.
Edit: And I already had it starred, because it works just like my 10 year old python script.
You can go semi-advanced mode by using regex to ignore certain line changes. Some sites require you to go super-advanced mode by using playwright running in a headless-v2 container rather than just plain text mode.
It's nice being able to see the history of changes. Especially when there's multiple rapidfire changes.
Oh yea, I'm still going to try it out the next time I need to page watch.
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This feels 1000% like a chatgpt prompt copy and pasted into a webpage.
Yea, no links to any of the tools.
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I would add searxng - a bit finnicky to set up but very powerful and customizeable.
I like the idea of SearXNG, but I don't see why so many people like it for self hosting. You're still querying search engines with your IP which in many self hosted cases is the same IP as the one you browse the internet with. I think SearXNG is really good if you setup a service on a server IP (like a VPS) and it gets used by multiple people, or if you tunnel it trough a VPN, but then again you could also just VPN your search engine searches.
So why do you like it? Is it for the aggregation of multiple engines? Or maybe the fact that it doesn't link your specific browser to a search? I really wonder and am not hating.
You’re still querying search engines with your IP
IP in itself might not be as much of a problem, unless you have a static IP, which most consumers don't. And even if you do, you are also hiding a lot of baggage relating to user agents or other fingerprintable settings. IP alone is rarely used as a sole point to link your traffic to other datapoints. On top of that, you can still just decide to exclude google, bing etc from your search results and rely more "open" ones like DDG or ecosia.
Another huge upside of searxng is the aggregation of results. The search results of google are all up to, well, google. Same with bing, which is controlled by microsoft. If these companies now decide to "surpress" certain information, people using only those engines directly would no longer see those news. However, if you get your results from multiple search engines, you are not - or lets say less - affected by that kind of nonsense.
As always with news and information, the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle. And that's where searxng helps out tremendously.
- Aggregation of multiple engines
- Per-engine weight control
- Good UX
- Filtering of bad domains from the search results
- More generally, very customizable
Searxng is my most used self hosted service. It's amazing
AI generation aside, not a bad list. I'd add searxng, and, opnsense/pfsense is really awesome to have with pfblocker, and then wireguard so you get all the benefits on the go.
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Opencloud instead of nextcloud
I use owncloud
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Can confirm, solid list for everyone. Only uptime kuma was replaced by beszel in my setup.
Why?
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I tried to setup some kinda self hosted AI image generation last month. I didn't know wtf I was doing and accomplished nothing. Need to give it another try.
@GaMEChld @selfhosted I kinda got this running and I’m here to tell you - unless you’re willing to babysit it through the constant changes and updates and dependency hell that creates, you might be better off just paying for api use at something like https://fal.ai/
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NFS | Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency |
| SMB | Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
9 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 19 acronyms.
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