Self-hosted apps worth running
Nine services that pay rent on a small home server, a year of upgrades later.
Immich
Google Photos at home, search included; it moves fast, so read the release notes.
Vaultwarden
The Bitwarden server rewritten to run on a potato; pair it with the official apps.
Jellyfin
Plays your own films on every screen in the house — no account, no telemetry.
Home Assistant
The one service the whole household notices when it goes down.
Uptime Kuma
A status page for everything above, prettier than the one at work.
Miniflux
An RSS reader with no opinions and no clutter — one binary, one database.
Pi-hole
Network-wide ad blocking; the whole family wonders why the internet got calmer.
Nextcloud
Files, calendar and contacts out of anyone else’s cloud; heavier than it looks.
Paperless-ngx
Scan every letter once, find it years later by typing three words.