You might be interested in https://github.com/ItalyPaleAle/hereditas

It’s a deadman switch that houses your docs/data, encrypted, on a self hosted static website.

It really has improved my daily life. I may be a bit of an outlier since I’m also a developer and selfhost apps I’ve made.

Multi-scrobbler

I love music and have been recording (scrobbling) what I listen to for over a decade. I created this app to make the scrobbling process set-and-forget across all the platforms and locations I listen to music.

Tautulli Digest

This little app I wrote consolidates “newely added to plex” discord notifications and posts them all at the same time. Makes my discord server much less noisy.

Context Mod

A homegrown reddit moderation bot platform I developed. I selfhost u/ContextModBot and a slew of other moderator bots. This is probably the biggest advantage I get for self hosting. The bot uses a lot of bandwidth and can be CPU-intensive when doing image hashing and pixel comparisons. If I was hosting this on AWS I’d probably be paying hundreds of $$$ a month.

Web Hosting

Between Context Mod and a few other image and text web services used between my friends I do a modest amount of website traffic. Not the end of the world if I hosted in the cloud but still saving me some money for sure.

Home Assistant and Frigate

More common around here. HA has been a QoL upgrade from managing a bunch of different rando “smart home” apps. I also moved away from a Ring doorbell to an Amcrest AD410 with Frigate + Coral for human detection that records events straight to my NAS. No more paying subscription for storage and worrying about amazon peeping on my video.