I built a home server project that manages many of the rough edges around deployment of self-hosted apps. It includes DDNS, router+firewall, headscale, automatic setup of apps, and automatic deployment of subdomains and TLS certs for each app.

Apps are blocked to the public by default but accessible using a Tailscale client.

It's built on top of NixOS and completely configurable through a single module.

Still in heavy development but I've replaced an entire rack in my closet with an Intel NUC.

https://homefree.host