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.
You must log in or register to comment.
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!
a selfhosted version of Padlet. As a Highschoolteacher i would love this!
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.
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.
Hey man. I have a few ideas. PM me if you haven’t settled on a project and want to chat. Do you use Home Assistant at all?
Yes I do. Why not share them open?
Those who could “steal” your idea have plenty themselves, and those who can’t steal them are not to worry about ;)
As for myself: I have plenty of ideas, but want to build something people need.
Lol. I’m not worried about people “stealing” open source project ideas. Go for it! Just I have a lot of half formed ones and it’s not too clear what you are looking for.
One for example:
I use Bring! which is a great - and simple to use - grocery shopping list app. They refused to open the API though so no HA integration. I think creating an open version of that that works with the new HA list integration would be awesome. You can set up automations to say scan empty bottles from the fridge, and alert you when you go near the grocery store.
Happy to write a design spec or such and do testing but I’m not much of a coder.
I was going to get my kid to make the generic icons, but maybe more like Material theme. Wondering if AI can generate them quickly.
One note alternative. Writing, drawing, file dropping. Cross platform and real time syncing.
AnyType is moving in this direction. A self hosted brain would be good though.
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.
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)
Couple of tools ive wanted
- 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)
- 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
Does a missing feature in existing Foss count?
Meh … not really. … I don’t want to read hours of docs/architecture first, before I write code.
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
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.
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
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.
Please!!! I’ve been waiting for someone to work on this project to delete watched/unwatched media on my Plex server
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.
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
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.
Built in requester for jellyfin
Check out jellyseer
currently use jellyseer, would rather something built into jellyfin
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.