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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#2But 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:
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#5New 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
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=38.8904&lon=-7...
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#7My subscription to http://start.me has been worth every penny I pay for it.
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#8I 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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#10Empty new tab in Firefox works great. There are also blank new tab extensions if you use Chrome.