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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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 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.
a selfhosted version of Padlet. As a Highschoolteacher i would love this!
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.
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
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.
i wish a voip bridge client existed as a server. then proxies the call to me via element or telegram or discord
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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.
Built in requester for jellyfin
Check out jellyseer
currently use jellyseer, would rather something built into jellyfin
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
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)