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Thinking about building something useful for self-hosting (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Top_Outlandishness78@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Is there anything you guys think that could help you with your self host experience or any service that you wish there is a self hosted version?

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[–] NoctisBE@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dev here.

Honestly, most project came to fruition due to a need the developers themselves have.

Ask yourself the question if YOU need something that doesn't exist yet, or maybe exists but does not meet your requirements.

If you build something for yourself in the first place, and not because someone else wants it, it's a lot easier to stay motivated.

I've been seeing the mindset of "I need to build this hobby project because people want it" a lot lately. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but personally I think it'a better to build something you need and let others enjoy it as an added bonus. It's how a lot of great (and big!) things came to be.

This may be the crusty old fart in me talking, but the "hack around and build something" mindset is something I kind of miss nowadays 😅

In any chance, good luck on your endeavour! Feel free to post it in the subreddit, I'm sure a lot of people wouls be interested, myself included!

[–] audero@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

This. I code some services to work around my existing self-hosted apps but they’re just for my own personal use. I don’t have the motivation (or ability) to code big projects for other people, but sometimes, if the code is good enough, I’ll release the source and some instructions to GitHub. I’d never know what people smarter than me could do with it otherwise. Already had my first couple of forks and gave me the chance to get feedback from others on my coding.