A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
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One of the advantages of selfhosting is that I can cut down on subscriptions. Unfortunately, I cannot find an RSS reader with powerful filters and rules like Inoreader. I've tried FreshRSS but it's just not as powerful as Inoreader.
I wish I could selfhost Inoreader.
discord or something like teamspeak with screen sharing
ChatGPT. I want it to have full access to my mail, contacts, photos, videos, git repositories, and I want to be sure it's not leaving my premises not matter what. I want to say 'find my letter to my former boss where I was talking about infra', and it find the letter where is no word 'boss', 'infra', or 'former', and it is the letter I was searching.
Not self-hosted, but sounds a lot like [Rewind](https://www.rewind.ai/). Pretty cool project, and it seems like they take privacy and security seriously. I still want to be able to self-host it though. Would feel much safer.
something like OneNote (typing, writing, drawing... all collaboratively)
My own web index so I wouldn't have to use a search engine
Why not use a search engine? If it's privacy concerns, ever heard of whoogle? Let's you use Google search without all the privacy risks involved...
Factorialhr.io
Simple HR management software for small companies. Everything I've tried is way overkill
Self-hosted alternative to Google Street View (with the ability to upload own street views of course).
This is obviously not possible, as it is a huge undertaking to do that for the whole world. There is "Street View" in Apple Maps as well, btw.
And even if it were possible to "self host" Google Street View, its image dataset is estimated at 115 PB. So you you kinda would need to have a little bit of space on your homeserver.
Discord, hands down
My own AI assistant on the level of Google home or Alexa
An e-reading web app support for (at least) epub and PDF files, usable on both desktop and mobile screens, capable of adding and reviewing highlights and annotations. Koobo comes close. But isn't usable on mobile.
And yes I've tried many options, both selfhosted and cloud based.
Teams with sharepoint and office functions
Nextcloud with NC Talk and OnlyOffice Plugin.
I never got a love for nextcloud. It fails me every time i try it out.
I am using it hosted (Hetzner) and like it very much. Stable, fast, always available.
I have an openssh server and i want to access it remptely. Port forwarding is blocked by my isp and i use the unifi debug terminal to ssh into the server. But isnt there a tool that does the similar but designed to do it instead of this workaround? If ubiquity stopped this feature, id be f.
A FileMaker equivalent, something I can run a database server at home and enter data via an iPad/iPhone
A web-based mail client (not server!) with a backend optimized for search queries. I get hundreds of mails per day and often I have to check whether something was discussed in some thread, in the last couple of years, or more. Thunderbird explodes, Outlook seems better, but it forces me to run Windows on my desktop and laptop. GMail is actually great, but it would be immoral in too many different ways to flush all the emails I receive into Google. Colleagues reported Apple Mail is good, but I have no direct experience.