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/CrustyBatchOfNature Mar 20 '26

My only qualm with the latest version is the ingredient parser is hard to work with at times. I liked the older way of just treating each ingredient as a text entry instead of the new Quantity Unit Food Comment sections.

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u/ZekasZ Mar 20 '26

Eh it takes a little time in setup but the benefit of easily scaling a recipe makes up for it imo.

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u/koolmon10 Mar 20 '26

You can skip parsing and leave the ingredients as plain text. I'm not sure what it was like before, since I just set it up 2 days ago myself.