I don’t have a home server yet but I’m exploring and sometimes I get confused about some posts here.
For example I saw a post asking for recommendation for a “self hosted budget management app”. Can’t you just install this type of app to your phone or pc? What’s the purpose here, will you host it and access it from a browser? Or do you only want to backup its data to your server?
I hope I don’t sound stupid please enlighten me.
I’ll add that sometimes the self-hosted version does something that the “official, paid”[1] version doesn’t, or at the very least allows you to try to hack it together.
A problem with commercial offerings is that their idea of completed product is different than yours, and depending on the feature there’s not enough $$$ incentive to pursue it. This is the major problem with Google, because search is such a ocean of income, that no other project will ever stand up to it.
[1] I say official because quite a few of self hosted versions are clones of some paid product.