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Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?

#1
By personal start page, I mean a custom-made web page that you would set as the home page in your browser and use it as the starting point of doing things in the browser.

I'm considering building something with Next.js or Gatsby that I can self-host, but I'd love suggestions of the most customizable tools that would allow me to quickly integrate data "widgets" from diverse sources like Nextcloud, Fastmail, RSS readers (Inoreader, maybe), CalDAV, bank accounts, etc.

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#2
It's been years since I had one, and when I did it was plain, static html only. So I don't have any personal recommendations.

But in case you weren't aware, there is a subreddit for startpages (because, of course there is), you might find some inspiration and ideas there:

https://old.reddit.com/r/startpages/

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#5

New tab page or more recently I've set my start page to a procedurally generated weather forecast image file hosted at weather.gov it works really well and it loads instantly which is critical for any start page in my opinion

If you right click on the chart and click show image, you can set that as your start page. Viola, the fastest weather forecast start page.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=38.8904&lon=-7...

Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?

#8
I personally aim for a startpage that loads instantly and since browsers no longer let you use a local html file as one, I've made an extension that registers a custom new tab page.

I don't use any frameworks since it's a pretty simple page, essentially just groups of links. If you need to, you can always use something like fetch to load external resources.

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