Before you do this, consider my discovery after running one for 2 years: all the integrations break, all the time.
I’m now running weather and calendar widgets on my ipad home screen and some pinned favourites in Safari and that’s it.
Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
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#52I built one! I’ve tried to monetize it but I’ve given up on that. This is why there is literally nothing on the home page except a login link, which you’re free to try out.
Anyway, if anyone’s breve enough to try it out, I’d be interested in your feedback! Always wanted to make this a tool for teams to share their common bookmarks and links with one another.
I have a chrome and Firefox extension too to ensure the new tab page is set to homepagr. It also has screenshots of what it looks like after logging in.
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#53I don't really have a start page, but I do use bookmark folders quite a bit for a similar purpose. For example, I have all my analytics links (Google Search Console, my own Matomo, Google Trends etc.) in one such folder, and when I need my data, I middle-click it (yeah, I'm a mouse guy), which opens all the pages in different tabs.
Super simple, ultra-low maintenance, gets me 80% there.
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#54https://yup.is (Business News & Search)
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#55Don't.
Make a "Personal Start Worksheet" instead.
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#56I use the free tier of netvibes
I made a page containing bookmarks, emails, notes, a few RSS, my own perfect start page.
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#57about:profiles
I use multiple profiles in FF and my start page is the profile selector.
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#58mine's built in Svelte/Sapper with Airtable as the CMS. Sometimes I just use Airtable directly, but Svelte gives me a better interface. Hosted as serverless app on Vercel.
I add to the start page (which has devolved into a favorite links page) through a bookmarklet
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#59Mine is just html, css, and javascript. I have a couple widgets which use iframes. hosted on github. https://jccalhoun.github.io/
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#60I just use bookmarks, and open my 'Daily' folder each morning which, as the name implies, opens up the sites I read each day. If you want something fancier, more power to you, but I don't have a problem with simple bookmarking.