I've been running a homelab for many years now and tried out many open source projects. A small percentage turn out to be real gems, but I use these almost every single day:
Shlink: URL shortener/redirects, alternative to Bitly
Vaultwarden: open source Bitwarden server
Dokploy: PaaS, alternative to Vercel / Netlify
Umami: gdpr-compliant web analytics
Immich: photo management
Papra: document archiving with OCR
Navidrome: personal music streaming
I'm super curious to hear about the apps you can't live without!
Many of the apps I ended up not using was either because the projects were abandoned or because the web/app UX is just too bad or ugly. For instance I really like Photoprism but Immich has such a better app experience imo.
I recently discovered Arpeggi (client for my Navidrome server) and I have such a good time using it
RSS can replace checking all your subscriptions (youtube, subreddits, etc.) to just one place. I tried a lot of RSS readers but it turns out you'll only like the one you make for yourself, that's why there are so many.
Sorting feeds into categories (I have channels for photography, sports, memes etc.) feels like bliss and is otherwise impossible to do.
You can also quickly vibe code RSS feeds for websites that don't have them.
Shlink: URL shortener/redirects, alternative to Bitly
Vaultwarden: open source Bitwarden server
Dokploy: PaaS, alternative to Vercel / Netlify
Umami: gdpr-compliant web analytics
Immich: photo management
Papra: document archiving with OCR
Navidrome: personal music streaming
I'm super curious to hear about the apps you can't live without!
Many of the apps I ended up not using was either because the projects were abandoned or because the web/app UX is just too bad or ugly. For instance I really like Photoprism but Immich has such a better app experience imo.
I recently discovered Arpeggi (client for my Navidrome server) and I have such a good time using it
pgweb: web ui for postgres
https://github.com/sosedoff/pgweb
I self-host RSS-Bridge and an RSS reader.
RSS can replace checking all your subscriptions (youtube, subreddits, etc.) to just one place. I tried a lot of RSS readers but it turns out you'll only like the one you make for yourself, that's why there are so many.
Sorting feeds into categories (I have channels for photography, sports, memes etc.) feels like bliss and is otherwise impossible to do.
You can also quickly vibe code RSS feeds for websites that don't have them.
Kimmi with whisper. Ngl running it on my old laptop is the only thing keeping my thing from breaking apart