- Photo Together App: easily share and back up my family photos to my PC

- Stirling PDF: all-in-one PDF toolkit

- Memos: lightweight daily scratchpad & micro-notes

* Kavita: eBooks and Comics

* Jellyfin: Movies and TV Shows

* Seafile: Hosting my private files

* AdGuard Home: DNS/Ad blocking for all my devices

* Vaultwarden: Passwords

* Immich: For my photos

* Plausible: Analytics

* Audiobookshelf: Audiobooks

* Radarr/Sonarr/Prowlarr + Transmission

* Radicale: Calendar + Contacts

* HedgeDoc: For my Markdown files

LLMs made it REALLY easy to setup a self hosting server and maintaining it. I literally use all of these now daily.

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.

I'm also running a Home Lab with several useful projects:

- Nextcloud (Cloud Storage alternative)

- Home Assistant (Awesome Smart Home Platform)

- Calibre-Web (Managing my eBooks)

I also run Umami but on a fly.io instance with all my other software that i build as a solo preneur.

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