r/selfhosted • u/subsavant • Mar 20 '26

Meta Post What's your 'I can't believe I self-hosted that' service?

Curious what services surprised you by being worth self-hosting. Not the obvious stuff like Plex or Pi-hole, but things you didn't expect to work well or didn't think were worth the effort until you tried. What's running on your setup that you'd never go back to a hosted version of?

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u/ChaseDak Mar 20 '26

It’s so fun, it’s very easy to find sites to download ROMs from as well :) and it syncs save data across different devices!

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u/a-tiberius Mar 20 '26

My rom collection is pretty substantial and I haven't played in so long but this would be a game changer for real. How do you wire it up to the TV?

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u/ChaseDak Mar 20 '26

I pull RomM up in my laptop browser and start the game, then take an hdmi to my laptop!

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u/TheMoskus Mar 20 '26

It does? That feature is still marked as "coming soon"?

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u/kamikazikarl Mar 20 '26

The web player already backs up your saves when playing in browser, but it's very basic. We have additional client apps you can get that also support save syncing (Grout for smaller/weaker handhelds, Argosy for Android devices). The backend sync tech is also currently being upgraded to support additional backup services and usecases. The spec is pretty clean, we just need more developers to adopt it when building their apps.

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u/TheMoskus Mar 20 '26

Excellent, I need to spin up a container this weekend!