What I do is take my yearly donation budget and divide it up to all of the projects (don’t forget about those libraries, dependencies, etc)

Selfhosting can be a desktop app as well, meaning you don’t want to use a SaaS product.

Put LibreOffice on all the desktops and GnuCash is a great highly customizable accounting program.

Intuit just did it again by increasing qb desktop pricing over 500% or pay a subscription for the desktop. Stop paying and it stops working.

Spore can join the wall of shame of companies I have seen personally either pull a bait-and-switch, shutdown services unexpectedly, or paywall features unexpectedly to force a mandatory (sometimes huge) price increase:

dmarcian

Rentec Direct

gmelius

ECI Mark Systems

odoo

SignNow

Intuit

Nice!

Has anyone made a mobile document signing app?

GnuCash or MoneyManagerEX

Just read your whole homelab write-up, thank you!

I would use https://www.taggun.io/ API for the invoice and receipt OCR.

Cloudflare (custom domain)

NextDNS

Zoho mail (you@customdomain.com)

Basic auth over https is encrypted.

Domoticz for home automation

cloudflared for remote access

apcupsd for UPS automation

OpenWrt on x86/64. Also being Linux based you gain features such as SQM which is a game changer for bufferbloat and responsiveness with devices.