Show HN: I solved my New Tab page • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

#51

Post by lycos » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 6:34 AM UTC

emptyparadise wrote: post #45

about:blank gang here personally i'd love to get a widget layer like the old mac dashboard or the windows 8 start menu. miss those a lot, but never really wanted to put those widgets in my browser...

I'm in the about:blank gang too, and I hate that in Safari on iOS you can no longer have a blank tab since a few versions. You can hide all the things on the "start page" but then you will still see the edit button.

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

#52

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 6:35 AM UTC

emptyparadise wrote: post #45

about:blank gang here personally i'd love to get a widget layer like the old mac dashboard or the windows 8 start menu. miss those a lot, but never really wanted to put those widgets in my browser...

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Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

#53

Post by vladstudio » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 6:40 AM UTC

Looks good! The design is, hm, very opinionated, but well done.

Shameless plug - last year, I solve my New Tab page too :-) And it shares a lot of ideas with yours - https://new-tab.vlad.studio/

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

#54

Post by jesterson » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 6:43 AM UTC

I use https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer for quite some time.

No useless bells an whistles (sorry author), no external API references, blazingly fast, nicely done

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

#55

Post by ComodoHacker » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 6:48 AM UTC

aliqot wrote: post #18

What does the ruler do?

It's a daily planner, if I'm not mistaken.

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

#56

Post by idk1 » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:17 AM UTC

Nice work! One request pls - can you tie two different themes to light and dark mode, my computer goes into dark mode at sunset and it would be great if I could pick one theme for dark mode and one theme for light mode. I love the pink theme bug I don't want it once the sun goes down, I'd go for dark theme then, but of course I don't want the dark theme during the day.

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

#57

Post by just-tom » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:30 AM UTC

I love how fast everything works! And the fact that you implemented themes are also a big respect.

I had this idea a few years ago when I was a much worse programmer and gave it a try with https://widget-board.com

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

#58

Post by akuji1993 » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:47 AM UTC

The stock component is missing an error message, when it can't find a stock. I entered "MSCI World" and it just kept loading and loading.

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

#59

Post by akuji1993 » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:50 AM UTC

vladstudio wrote: post #53

Looks good! The design is, hm, very opinionated, but well done. Shameless plug - last year, I solve my New Tab page too :-) And it shares a lot of ideas with yours - https://new-tab.vlad.studio/

One small thing: You let me preview the cool bookshelf wallpaper, but then I can't click on it to immediately get that one. I scrolled through the first two pages of wallpapers, not able to find it. Would be a cool addition to just be able to click the wallpaper that is currently on preview at the top.

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

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Post by spk_ » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:52 AM UTC

This is great. Out of curiosity, why not just wrap this as a standalone addon? Not questioning your decision btw, just thinking that the current approach may increase your hosting cost, no?