Everyone on your Plex server gets their own private recommendation rows with Shortlist, built from what each person actually watched and visible to nobody else. For each viewer it reads their Plex watch history, picks unwatched titles from your library, and explains every pick with the reason it earned its place. Rows land on Plex Home labelled, hidden from every other account by share filters, and only then promoted, so a row is never visible to the wrong person, not even briefly. Six row kinds, from Picked for You to seasonal picks and personal requests, start from eleven templates instead of a blank form. A seasonal row follows the calendar through Halloween, Christmas, and twenty more ready-made occasions, then hides itself between seasons. Rebuilds run nightly, weekly, or monthly on your cadence, and the dashboard shows what was delivered against what people started and actually finished, per user and per row. Missing a strong pick, Shortlist asks Radarr, Sonarr, or Overseerr for it: the boldest few auto-send nightly, the rest wait for one click in the Requests inbox. No AI key is required; add one and Describe a row turns slow-burn heist films into a themed row filled nightly for each person. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Labby gathers a whole homelab onto one live dashboard you host yourself, covering services, containers, downloads, and media servers. Widgets watch your service monitor, Docker containers, qBittorrent or Transmission queues, SABnzbd, AdGuard Home, Jellyfin, Emby, Plex, Beszel, Radarr, Sonarr, plus weather, calendar, speedtest, bookmarks, Reddit, and Hacker News, and the server pushes every change to your browser over server-sent events so nothing waits on a refresh timer. The dashboard is not a read-only poster: start and stop containers, pause and resume torrents, and toggle AdGuard protection straight from its widgets. Everything configures from the in-app Manage Services page, where service URLs, API keys, poll intervals, and multiple instances of the same integration (two Radarr servers, say) live in a small SQLite database instead of scattered environment files. Named color schemes restyle the board and save with the config, and icon sources span dashboard-icons, selfh.st, Lucide, or your own URLs. Login is off by default for trusted home networks, with a clear warning to keep it behind a LAN, VPN, or forward-auth proxy, and optional OIDC sign-in through Authentik, Authelia, Keycloak, or Pocket ID when you want a real front door. One container, one volume, and your lab finally explains itself at a glance. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.