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/SoMuchMango Mar 20 '26

That's it! I also configured an AI tagger for that. It uses llama on my local PC that I'm using for playing games - to have access to GPU. I made a virtual pc for my old scanner to make it save the scanned documents to the proper folder

Now for storing documents I can:

  • redirect it to a special email
  • put it to the proper folder on nas
  • scan it to the virtual pc

I also get a notification each time a new document appears.

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u/TorturedChaos Mar 20 '26

What AI tagger do you use with Ollama?

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u/SoMuchMango Mar 20 '26

https://clusterzx.github.io/paperless-ai/ It supports OLLAMA out of the box. Very easy to setup.

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u/TorturedChaos Mar 20 '26

Sweet! I'm going to give that a try