The thing that got me into self hosting is the phone App Store. I started writing personal applications to do what the media apps on the App Store could not. The results have been amazing and the required effort is less than I expected.

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salmonellaeater 5 days ago | parent [-]

What are some personal applications you created to fill these gaps?

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austin-cheney 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

* A media player with playlist of local media that executes in a web browser.

* proxies for http and WebSockets. Apache made this challenging and I thought I could do it better. I can now spin up servers in seconds and serve http and WebSockets on the same port

* tools to test dns, http, WebSockets, hashes, certificate creation, and more

	▲	imcritic 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Are you talking about Android? Can your player delete media files? If yes - PLEASE SHARE!

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vjerancrnjak 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Music player that does not skip 1 second of next track, scans my big library in a second.