Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder
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Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder
#2Should we know what "link in bio" means? How is that a "personal dashboard"?
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder
#3Should we know what "link in bio" means? How is that a "personal dashboard"?
Good question.
For the team: From the term "personal dashboard," I was expecting something that would allow me to track data that's important to me, locally, like if I want to track my sleep stats and my spending and my food intake and whatever else. That's what "personal dashboard" means to me, and I was excited for a self-hosted, open source, clean way to do that.
Maybe that product exists, but sadly it has nothing to do with this one.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder
#4Confusing title since "dashboard" appears nowhere on the page. Better description might be "An open-source dynamic link-in-bio" (AKA Linktree alternative)
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#5Feedback for the team: the landing page offers me no insight into what this is. The "introduction" link points to the same file that is hosted.
At a minimum, I expect a screenshot (preferrably multiple) and example code snippets that show some of what can be done. This is general guidance for any open source repository that desires other people to use it, not limited to this project.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder
#6Should we know what "link in bio" means? How is that a "personal dashboard"?
Looks like it's a feed that combines various (personal) sources.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder
#7Feedback for the team: the landing page offers me no insight into what this is. The "introduction" link points to the same file that is hosted. At a minimum, I expect a screenshot (preferrably multiple) and example code snippets that show some of what can be done. This is general guidance for any open source repository that desires other people to use it, not limited to this project.
I'd expect the GH page to have similar content to the actual website, https://glow.as/. I only found that by searching for a link, which was the big leader image on the GH page. At the very least, add a textual "website" link to the GH landing page.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder
#8I wouldn't say a 'link in bio' page === personal dashboard. Having said that, this looks like a really nice link in bio product, congrats on the launch!
I always see these services targeted to individuals, but have you considered targeting SMBs? So many restaurants, plumbers, etc. have TERRIBLE websites that they struggle to maintain properly for various reasons. I don't see any reason that a tool like this wouldn't be sufficient.
Also just a flag that I get a 404 when I try to see the project's license.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder
#9The link to license is broken. It links to LICENSE.md instead of LICENSE
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder
#10I wouldn't say a 'link in bio' page === personal dashboard. Having said that, this looks like a really nice link in bio product, congrats on the launch! I always see these services targeted to individuals, but have you considered targeting SMBs? So many restaurants, plumbers, etc. have TERRIBLE websites that they struggle to maintain properly for various reasons. I don't see any reason that a tool like this wouldn't…
I've always wondered if many company's website should simply be a high resolution webcam pointed at a chalkboard on their premiesis.