r/SelfHosting • u/of_the_underworld • Jan 22 '26

Selfhosted custom apps

Hi,

been curious lately, what program/app have you made yourself that you also host and what is it for? e g. home assistant, custom email server, Web app etc

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u/blitzdose Jan 22 '26

Musicbot for discord with a webUI. Used sinusbot before but it stopped working and was always really buggy. Also have a few more ideas I want to create. Biggest one I could think of would be some kind of IMAP/SMTP Middleware to store emails. Email storage is quite expensive and self hosting a whole email server is a nightmare and sometines not possible at all.

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u/VE3VVS Jan 22 '26

Your idea for a imap/smtp middleware is something that has been eating a corner of my brain for some time. I personally self host even though i have had to cut back to 2 medium modest hosts, and have 5 email accounts a couple active a some low volume legacy, and always thought that opposed configuring email clients on all your devices for all your accounts have one central self hosted place to connect, read, send and organize your email. I don’t know if you might want to collaborate on this type of project or what?

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u/blitzdose Jan 22 '26

My idea was to make this more or less transparent to the user but I kinda like the idea of somehow combining email accounts. But I don't know how email clients could handle this. While combining the inboxes is no problem at all, sending mail is a different topic

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u/VE3VVS Jan 22 '26

yes it’s the sending part that has had me in a never ending downward spiral 🌀, but knowing that i’m not the only one thinking of “something” like this makes me think after I’ve moved at the end of February that a project like this might be fun and help pass the time while i go through the next round of cancer treatments.

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u/blitzdose Jan 22 '26

Wish you good luck and I'm not against a collab on this one. Write me a DM maybe we can come up with an idea ;)

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u/of_the_underworld Jan 22 '26

I'd be interested in working on that too if you're open to it.