The creator didn’t have a good answer, so there may not be a good one for this project. But the value proposition is actually there.
These self-hosted solutions are riddled with configuration options, often obscure requirements, and countless maintenance pitfalls.
For a disciplined tech person, it is no problem to install and maintain.
For people less disciplined or non-tech, self hosting is ill-advised and can be dangerous.
But even for a tech person, when you have enough docker-compose services laying around, it can start to get a bit overwhelming to keep it all up to date, online, and functional. If you change your router etc you have to recall how things were set up, what port-forwards you need, what reverse lookups, etc etc.
There actually is a gap in usability and configuration management. I could see a product that has sensible defaults that unifies config across these self-hosted services without needing to access the command line.
There are a lot of problems with that stance and I do not have the energy to point them all out, but here is the main one I see.
If you say something in private is illegal, how do you enforce it? Many harmful drugs are illegal, for example, so we justify invasions of privacy with searches of a suspect because the harm of the drugs is so great we are okay with violating people like that.
When you say digital content is illegal in private it justifies searching digital content for enforcement. But the trouble with this is it is digital content and programs can be used to search it…continuously. This sort of search needs to scan EVERYTHING of yours in private. Once you have that, they can add more search criteria and you won’t even know it’s happening.
You have no idea how bad this can get. I hope that you don’t find out.