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.

  • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    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.

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    11 months ago
    1. Business sales system. Just something I can punch some sales numbers into, expense categories, and then feed it to number 2

    2. A nice data entry/aggregation/visualization suite.

    All of the commercial solutions are nice but so expensive… looking at you tableau

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    11 months ago

    Honestly, what I’m missing is I wish Keybase would release their server source code.

    Zoom has ran that software into the ground and buried keybase in a pile of sh*t. It would be like 10 Christmases in one if someone reversed the client to create an open-source server solution or Zoom released the server code for keybase.

    I love Keybase. Absolutely love that program. I HATE the company who owns it.

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    11 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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      11 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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        11 months ago

        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.

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    11 months ago

    Couple of tools ive wanted

    1. 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)

    1. 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
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    11 months ago
    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
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    11 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)

  • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Hi could you make a AI that does menial tasks on those beer money websites to make me money and also does my taxes for me and can do really good stock trading? Also I told my family they could have this for Christmas so please have this ready soon thanks