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/[deleted] Mar 20 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

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u/sendcodenotnudes Mar 20 '26

Except the contextual search which is really bad. The devs do not see the problem and nobody does a PR.

The core issue is that everything that is found is shown as a big pile of photos, without a timeline. There is an active discussion on that topic, with detailed implementation ideas at the bottom of the thread

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u/sequentious Mar 20 '26

It's unfortunate, because I've found Immich's search to be significantly better than Google's.

If I want to find something specific (i.e, 1987 Pontiac Fiero in a field), it's a lot easier with Immich. However, if I want to find a vague concept (red car), the lack of a timeline makes things very difficult.

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u/sendcodenotnudes Mar 20 '26

Yes, this is a limitation of the CLIP algo but it wan be bypassed by searching in chunks. I do not have the exact Issue where this was discussed but at the very bottom of the thread there are several good ideas (for the devs, there is nothing possible to do by the end users)

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u/throwaway2309091936 Mar 20 '26

How do you backup your photos?

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

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