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.

  • sottey@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Portainer IS super heavy, but also pretty great. And any running container can be exec’d into with a button click in Portainer. I also like the app browser to look at new available containers

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      10 months ago

      For what I use it for, Portainer feels like using a dump truck to carry groceries. Sure, it gets the job done, but I’m not using half of it, and there are a bunch of things that I’d like to do with it that are either way too complex, or just missing. For instance, it should be able to set up simple scripts, like “run this container every night”, or “restart this container once a week”, or “upgrade these containers automatically”.

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    10 months ago

    A good SamsungNotes-like self hosted web app with Android/ios clients and pen support would be GREAT

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    10 months ago

    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

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        10 months ago

        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

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    10 months ago

    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)

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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

      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

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    10 months ago

    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!

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    10 months ago

    One note alternative. Writing, drawing, file dropping. Cross platform and real time syncing.

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    10 months ago

    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?

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      10 months ago

      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.