Selflix

The problem

Movies and shows scattered across folders and drives, never knowing which episode was next. Selflix organizes them into a library with posters and synopses, remembers where you left off and plays on a phone or browser, from anywhere, with personal accounts.

Highlights

1. 01Jellyfin in Docker, with the library mounted read-only and the service reachable only from the server itself.
2. 02Access from outside without opening ports (the server sits behind CGNAT), through a Cloudflare tunnel with HTTPS.
3. 03One account per person, also created and managed through the Jellyfin API.
4. 04Episode order fixed by comparing against the public TVMaze API, and posters restored with local files.
5. 05External NTFS drive mounted permanently and safely on Linux.

What I learned

• → 01Folder structure is half the work: Jellyfin is only as good as the order of your files.
• → 02Elegant shortcuts can duplicate everything: symlinks made every episode show up twice.
• → 03Never expose a home service straight to the internet: a tunnel gives access from anywhere without opening the network.