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Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder

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Post by alumic »

smeej wrote: post #3
joelfried wrote: post #2

Should 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…

I just so happen to be working on one! It stemmed from my dissatisfaction with the existing meal tracking apps I’ve tried.

Initially I’d wanted to track spending as well but apps like YNAB cover this use-case better than I can in the near term so I struck it from the roadmap.

I’m trying to focus on health: meal planning and workout scheduling in a system flexible enough to make suggestions as your exercise regimen (and thus your nutritional requirements) change. Will also be looking into sleep tracking and other metrics.

Let me know if there’s anything else you’d want to see from an app like this. Happy to shoot you a link to the repo when the MVP gets off the ground.

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder

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Post by welder »

timfsu wrote: post #16

Cool project! I clicked on it hoping it was a way to easily visualize my own personal stats. Anyone know of a project like that? Grafana for personal data :)

> Anyone know of a project like that?

Zenobase https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4411518

Flow https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14279515

Wolfram Blog post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680283

RoutineTap (dead) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231406

And more:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=personal%20dashboard

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder

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Post by aftergibson »

timfsu wrote: post #16

Cool project! I clicked on it hoping it was a way to easily visualize my own personal stats. Anyone know of a project like that? Grafana for personal data :)

This is precisely what I was hoping for. This really isn't a dashboard for personal use as the title implies.

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder

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Post by aftergibson »

Some feedback:

- It's a very cool idea, and massive congrats on the launch!

- This has been done before, but a slick looking open source version is very cool! Have you looked at the concept of now pages, as this might lean into that? https://nownownow.com/about

- Personal dashboard builder is a poor term for this, as it implies a dashboard for personal data/usage.

- Link in bio is also a poor term, I suspect it's not a popular / well-known term. Personal Homepage is probably the best I can think of. Or now page perhaps?

- This GitHub readme says very little of substance, which gives me... "unfinished side project" vibes.

Best of luck with it!

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder

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Post by nilirl »

timfsu wrote: post #16

Cool project! I clicked on it hoping it was a way to easily visualize my own personal stats. Anyone know of a project like that? Grafana for personal data :)

I made a tool for capturing data in JSON [0]. It's not in real-time but when I want to use my logs to troubleshoot something I have a local React project with https://github.com/plouc/nivo to make my own visualizations.

But for something you can host yourself I've used https://github.com/onejgordon/flow-dashboard in the past

[0] https://www.idiotlamborghini.com/strategies/weave

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder

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Post by teruakohatu »

xnx wrote: post #4

Confusing title since "dashboard" appears nowhere on the page. Better description might be "An open-source dynamic link-in-bio" (AKA Linktree alternative)

I couldn't figure out what it was from the README, I am surprised it made the homepage of HN. If the author reads this, I suggest updating the README and resubmitting it to HN sometime in the future.

Edit: The app website explains it much better: https://glow.as/

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder

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Post by madamelic »

smeej wrote: post #3
joelfried wrote: post #2

Should 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…

There are TONS.

Personal dashboard builder is like project #2 or #3 right after TODO lists when it comes to new coders it seems like.

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