Nice work - i got a positive experience being able to type in location, stock, reddits and getting something back quickly. This could make a good homescreen for a device mounted on a wall in your home perhaps from a repurposed e-reader.
Show HN: I solved my New Tab page
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Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page
#72This is what iGoogle used to be! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle You could add your own RSS feed, weather, etc and it used to be awesome. Used to be my "home" tab for many years, before google decided to do away with it. It appears there's a "replacement" now. https://igoogleportal.com/ Definitely going to try this one out
That was my homepage for many years too. The most prominent feature was a running sticky note. Don't really miss it anymore though; I've gotten used to using pinned tabs and bookmarks for anything I need access to regularly. (And a more fleshed-out note taking system.)
Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page
#73I also run a customizable start page http://myfav.es its cost $100/month for 10 years to run but i keep it up because a lot of schools use it to help set up their shared computers and i couldn’t ever have the heart to shut it down. Once you set it up you can also run it entirely offline using app manifests from myfav.es/fast if you don’t like the idea of your new tab experience being slowed down by web requests.
Why so expensive?
A software engineer who makes $100,000 a year, working 40 hours a week, for 52 weeks, makes about $50/hour.
If this person is spending 2 hours of their time each month maintaining this website (which they gain nothing out of) that's $100/month.
Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page
#74about: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 like me some widgets, but pretty much the only time I see the bare desktop is when the machine restarts. So instead I put some in the menu bar (Mac's ‘tray’), in the dock and in the bottom corners around the dock. I'm using open-source ‘Stats’ for the menu; there's also BitBar iirc. The stock Activity Manager for the dock, and custom scripts in Hammerspoon for drawing anywhere on the screen, namely in the corners.
Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why so expensive?
A software engineer who makes $100,000 a year, working 40 hours a week, for 52 weeks, makes about $50/hour. If this person is spending 2 hours of their time each month maintaining this website (which they gain nothing out of) that's $100/month.
I very much doubt they where talking about this, and where instead referring to their hosting costs.
Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page
#76I use the default firefox new tab with the frequently used website icons zoomed in a little but this is cool.
Personally I'm longing for a slight variation on the default page, where I could freely arrange the shortcuts how I see fit—instead of having them in a 6×2 table (or 8×2, can't remember at the phone). It's like Windows vs Mac again: MS loves coercing everything into tables, because that's easy for programmers—while Apple understands that people want to navigate with some visual guides and reference points.
Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page
#77about: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...
Firefox displays a search bar, but yes, an empty new tab is good. The awesome bar is what I use to access the thing I intent to access when I press CTRL+T, whether it's an history search, or a web search, or an URL. The fewer things displayed on my screen trying to distract me, the better :-)
Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why so expensive?
A software engineer who makes $100,000 a year, working 40 hours a week, for 52 weeks, makes about $50/hour. If this person is spending 2 hours of their time each month maintaining this website (which they gain nothing out of) that's $100/month.
I detest this meme where supposedly every hour you have is translatable to money.
It isn't as if you can sell every hour of your time whenever you feel like it. If it were that way, you'd be able to say: "I pay $1500+ for going to the toilet each month":
> A software engineer who makes $100,000 a year, working 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, makes about $50/hour.
So let's say 1 hour of toilet time per day on average, so: 30 * 50 = 1500.
What nonsense.
Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page
#79This is what I have been dreaming for years. Amazing job!
Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page
#80Impressively fast! I love the bonsai. Way too much distractions for me though. Shameless plug: I made a new tab page that's just markdown notes and bookmarks - https://nutab.co
That looks very nice! How is the data saved?
Could I set something up where I can edit it both in the browser and my editor or something?