Selfhosted

A VPS on Hetzner with 2 shared vCPUs, 4GB ram and 40GB storage costs me less than €5 per month. I use it for services that are more "critical" compared to what runs on my home server.

Why not Home Assistant? You can log seizures via buttons on the UI (web or mobile app), or via an NFC tag, have counters and stats. Counters can also be used for medication tracking. More advanced solution exist via custom integrations, e.g this.

Do you need a web app, or would a mobile app do? There are a number of medication trackers and one specifically for tracking stuff like this called Track & Graph. The DB export is a SQLite DB, which can be SyncThing'ed to a computer and worked with with whatever rolls you like.

If you want to self-host, I recommend a used business thin client, docker + docker-compose, and Tailscale for access away from home if needed. Don’t forget to dump & back up nightly.

Edit: thin client because it beats a pi in every respect and doesn’t run on an SD card. Tailscale because you don’t have to open ports in your firewall and point a public domain at your house.

Or you could use hosted services, neon.tech and turso both offer really generous free tiers for SQL databases.

Or you could use a notebook and pen. Sometimes simplicity is king.

I'd use something that already exists:

• https://life-notes.fr/
• https://github.com/babybuddy/babybuddy
• https://github.com/BabyTracker/baby-tracker

The focus of the latter two is slightly off, but it would work.

Actually, I'd probably not add a use-specific thing unless I needed something specific it offered. I'd just pop up another page on our shared wiki to track things, or put it in a synced note app.

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If you don't have strong privacy concerns, you can use the free tier vps from oracle cloud or Google cloud. They are small, but are more than enough for this load.

HIPAA (not hippa) is not even remotely applicable.

Cheap and easy are in opposition here. Which matters more? There are symptom and medication apps already that would be easy and available right now. And you don't need to do tech support for family.

Google Sheets will be a simple solution you can do for free.

The app "Track & Graph" is another.

I have been logging all my medical events using Tasker and a Google Calendar. Analysis is manual using graphviz.

Check out OliveTin. I use it in a similar fashion to track when I take my daily meds and for other personal health tracking.

It's a simple webapp that fires off shell scripts on your server. I store my data as CSV, but you can tailor the scripts to store and retrieve/present your data however you'd like.

Edit 2: adding that I host this on a Raspberry pi zero w. It's ultra cheap. It's only accessible on my lan by choice. I use a wireguard tunnel on my stupid cheap (~$1.50/month) vps to access it remotely.

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If it is for home use, why not go with a raspberry pi (or similar, there are lots of cheaper alternatives like it) which is only accessible from the local network and not from the internet?

If access through the internet is needed, you can use one of many free dyndns services. (e.g duckdns.org)

You could also look into existing projects and maybe contribute instead of building from scratch, but thats up to you. Through a quick search I found https://github.com/FSchiltz/Helse

Since you're already working in C#, an ASP.Net Core backed, with whatever database you prefer, will do what you want.

You could self host it, but I wouldn't call that easy. There are plenty of cloud providers that can integrate with your preferred git repo and really streamline the build and deployment process. I run a few applications as "Apps" on Digital Ocean. Once you get it configured properly, deployments are quick and easy.

@vrek have you looked at https://turso.tech/ or https://supabase.com/