Last time I had a personal start page was during the windows 2000 days, it consisted of a few HTML files in my Documents directory, it was plain HTML and just linked to stuff.
Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
11–20 of 124 posts
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#12notion with links to various todolists, calendars & note taking areas & new tab redirect
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#13It'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/
One more interesting to subscribe to, Thanks!
I've been thinking to build a curated list of websites across different subjects, do you think there's an aggregation subreddit or tool to build one as well?
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#14I 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.
Would you mind sharing a link to your extension?
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#15I used to live in Netvibes.com, looks like it still exists and has a free tier.
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#16I use Caret Tab. Nicely configurable, syncs with browser settings.
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#17I used to have a flat static html file where I pulled in various RSS feeds using Google's old RSS Javascript API. Yahoo also had a neat library called pipes that allowed you to do something similar.
TBH i would avoid self hosting, as in my experience whatever middle point you will leverage for your feeds will end up being deprecated/sun-setted or whatever
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#18[deleted]
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#19Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#20I 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.
I'm using a local html file as a start page in Safari right now, and used the same file on Windows (Firefox) just a few months ago.