I recently got into self hosting my hobby projects by moving them off the cloud and onto my raspberry pi running coolify. It's extremely gratifying to have several projects running on my home server for free, for pennies of electricity, whereas these were costing me many ten's of dollars a month on the cloud. It's not much but it's a great signal of efficiency. I've already saved enough to earn back the cost of the rpi. Plus I'm learning more deeply about self hosting.

Without further ado, here's the projects

Blog - https://stewart.codes

This blog. A static blog application fit to my needs. It is inspired by hexo.

Endless Stories - https://stories.stewart.codes

Inspired by Nepenthes, a tarpit for unruly bots. This site uses markov chains generated on content of your choice to create a fake blog-like site with an infinite amount of content. The key to the unlimited content is utilizing psuedo random number generators to create what appears to be stable content. The homepage is refreshed daily using the date as a seed. Content within is seeded with numbers from the PRNG itself in order to create stable URLs that can be bookmarked.

I will note that the robots.txt does explicitly notify bots to not look at the site. But if they do, they will be stuck for a long time.

Exquisite Corpse - https://playexquisitecorpse.com

A digital version of the self titled paper drawing game. Created during the pandemic to enjoy cooperative drawing with your digital friends.

Public Works - https://publicworks.art

A digital art platform. This was my most successful side project. Multiple artists sold out their artworks. I recently moved this to read only mode. But the art lives on.

Microcosm Bot - https://microcosmbot.xyz

A telegram bot for creating fungible and non fungible token gated telegram chats for stargaze and other cosmos chains.

Baby Tracker

A private app created for my wife and I to help track kid stuff. I am hosting a pocketbase backend and a nextjs frontend both on the raspberry pi.

Coolify takes some getting used to, but when combined with cloudflared tunnels, it's a great and cheap way to host all kinds of web services.