I posted GhostHub here about a year ago as a cross-platform media server, but I didn’t like where it was going so I basically scrapped it and rebuilt the whole thing around the Pi.
It’s now more like a self-contained media box than an app. You plug in a USB drive, connect to the Pi (it can even run its own Wi-Fi), open a browser, and your media is just there. You can scroll photos/videos, upload files, resume playback, and even throw it on an HDMI display.
There are two ways to use it: flash a prebuilt image and you’re done, or use the official 2022 Pi OS Lite image and run a single install script. I also got OTA updates working through GitHub releases so once it’s set up you don’t have to reflash it every time.
Main goal was just making something local-first that actually feels like a real device instead of a project I have to babysit.