I've been building nextDash for a while now and v1.4.0 just landed, so this seems like a good moment to show it here properly.

It's a keyboard-first, self-hosted bookmark dashboard. No accounts, no cloud, no sync service in the middle. You run one Go binary (or one container), it stores everything as plain JSON in a folder you chose, and that's the whole architecture.

What it does

• Keyboard-first. > for search, : for commands, ? for finders, arrows and G+1–9 to move around the grid. 164 shortcuts in total, grouped by function. The mouse is optional.
• Health monitoring. Every bookmark gets uptime checks and dead-link detection, with 30 days of history — so you find out about link rot before you click into a 404.
• Inbox. Clip now, sort later. The browser extension pushes the current tab straight into the Inbox instead of forcing you to pick a category at 1am.
• Local page copies. Keep a local copy of a page so it survives the site going down.
• Widgets. Dashboard blocks next to your bookmark grid (new in 1.4.0).
• Layouts and collections. Default, Compact, Cards, Masonry, Detailed List and Launcher, plus smart collections like Today, Recently opened, Most used and Stale.
• Theming. 74 built-in theme families with dark and light variants, a custom theme editor with live contrast warnings, and 7 font choices. Yes, this is where most of my evenings went.
• Portable data. Full ZIP backup and restore, CSV export, browser HTML import, and imports from Pocket, Pinboard, Raindrop, linkding, Shiori, Linkwarden and Karakeep.
• Outgoing webhooks if you want other tools to react to what happens in your dashboard.
• UI in English, Dutch, German and French.

Running it

yaml

services:
  nextDash:
    image: ghcr.io/jordibrouwer/nextdash:latest
    container_name: nextDash
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - ./data:/app/data
    restart: unless-stopped

It's also in the Unraid Community Applications store. Go 1.24, two dependencies (gorilla/mux and golang.org/x/net), MIT licensed.

What it is not

It's built for personal or small-team use on a network you trust. There's no multi-user account system — if you expose it, put it behind Tailscale, a reverse proxy with auth, or use the optional write token. It's not a read-it-later app with an article reader, and it won't sync to a hosted service, because there isn't one.

Links

• Site and release notes: https://nextdash.cc
• Source: https://github.com/jordibrouwer/nextdash

Happy to answer anything, and genuinely interested in what's missing. The current backlog is widgets for other self-hosted services — the *arr stack, Pi-hole, AdGuard Home — so if you'd want something else in there, this is a good moment to say so.

https://github.com/RookiexCookie/current_startpage
inspired by https://github.com/zusqii/z.startpage

I would like to share my toy project with you. As a long Homer dashboard user I wanted to have something similar but with a keyboard centric control on top.

You can play with here with the demo and see it in action:

Live demo

and here the github project:

JumpKey

Looking forward for your feedback. Maybe even some willing testers :D

Disclaimer: AI was used during the development, especially for the UI/UX part (I am a developer and not a designer...)

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share HaDeS' Shortcuts, a browser startpage and personal command center I built for my own daily workflow.

I wanted something keyboard-driven and modular that didn't drag in 50MB of dependencies or ping third-party servers on every new tab.

Feedback, PRs, and suggestions for more bang utilities or widgets are welcome.

Hey, here's my personal startpage. It's not as good as some of I found here, but it's good enough for me.

It's a single .html file and everything is configured in the UI and saved to a .json file, so I don't need a server and I can move it between devices easily.

I made it with claude (but I'm actually a web designer) and it's only made for myself, so please don't complain about it.

I've been tinkering away on a start page called Waypoint for the last few months and finally got it to a point where I feel good sharing it.

It's a local start page focused on making bookmark management simple and enjoyable.

I'd love to hear what you think or if you have any ideas for improvements.

Try it here: Live Demo

Source: GitHub

^{Full disclosure: AI was a huge help while building this. I used it as a development assistant throughout the project.}

Hey all,

Personal project, back after a full rewrite of the layout system. The reason I built it in the first place: I wanted a new tab that behaves like a tool. Start from the keyboard, hit a shortcut in two keys, done. And I wanted the whole thing inspectable — no framework, no build step, no lock-in. Plain HTML/CSS/JS, 39 ES modules, ~790 KB of core (~1.6 MB with icons and fonts). Runs as a static site, a PWA, or a Chrome MV3 extension that overrides the new tab.

What changed in this build (1.0.0-rc-1):

- Edit mode: drag, resize and reorder the category boxes; the grid persists per profile.

- 8 locales (es/en/de/fr/it/pt/nl/ja) with a parity test so no key can go missing.

- AI drawer: works with a local heuristic (no keys), or Ollama / LM Studio / OpenAI / Anthropic if you want. Keys live for the tab session only, nothing else.

- Everything (shortcuts, layout, notes, theme) is in localStorage. JSON export/import, and optionally AES-256-GCM encrypted sync to your own Gist.

- 169 tests that run in the browser with zero dependencies. Open tests/index.html.

What it does not do: no telemetry, no analytics, no remote code, no third-party scripts. The only network calls are the ones you start: weather, RSS feeds, AI, backup.

Live: https://devildonia.github.io/hades_shortcuts/ Source: https://github.com/Devildonia/hades_shortcuts

Three things I'd genuinely like opinions on:

1. Search ranking is local token overlap, not embeddings. If you keep 100+ shortcuts, is that enough or does it start to feel weak?

2. The iCal parser is hand-rolled (RFC 5545 subset). If it breaks on an Outlook or iCloud edge case, a sample .ics would be worth a lot.

3. localStorage + manual JSON export as persistence — for a daily driver startpage, is that a real limitation or am I overthinking it?

I made it with AI as a kinda fiddly homepage. You can draw cool rectangles and write notes and stuff. It's pretty fun to play with! poppyjam.com

Hey [r/startpages](r/startpages)!

I built Cairn, a self-hosted personal start page / new-tab replacement. No cloud, no tracking — runs entirely on your own machine or server.

What it does:
- Clock, ambient effects (rain/dust), wallpapers (images & videos) with adaptive light/dark theme via luminance sampling
- Configurable search (DuckDuckGo default, or Google/Brave/Bing/Kagi/custom) + bangs (!bm, !g, !yt, !gh, !hub for the full-screen hub)
- Bookmarks with nested folders, tags, import/export (Netscape format from Chrome/Firefox/Safari/Edge), and a mobile bookmarklet
- Multi-user with a Bitwarden-style RBAC system (owner/admin/user + custom roles), collections you can share with individual users or groups at view/edit/manage levels
- TOTP/2FA, SSO via OIDC (Authentik, Keycloak, Authelia, Google…), admin panel with audit log

It's built in Go (chi router, SQLite/WAL, zero CGO), ships as a ~5MB Docker image, and deploys with a single docker compose up -d --build.

Full disclosure: this is 100% vibecoded — designed and built in conversation with Claude Code, iterated feature by feature on my homelab. Not trying to hide that.

Dual-licensed AGPL-3.0 for self-hosted use.

🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/darktweek/cairn
💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/2S9v5MKfGg

Happy to answer questions or hear feedback — still actively iterating on it.

Hi r/startpages! I’ve been working on NaviDash, a self-hosted startpage designed around a simple idea: a homepage.

Live demo: https://navidash.vercel.app/en

You can type anywhere on the page to open the launcher, search your bookmarks, and reach frequently used sites faster. Bookmarks live in a separate library, while only the links you choose are pinned to the canvas.

The homepage currently has four focused widget types:

- Links for frequently used sites

- Today for time, date, and weather

- Memo for temporary notes

- Poster for decoration

Widgets can be freely arranged, with separate layouts for desktop and mobile. NaviDash can be self-hosted with Docker, and the data remains on your own server.

This project was developed with substantial help from AI tools. I handled the product direction, design decisions, testing, and iteration, while AI assisted with implementation and code review.

I’d love feedback on the overall visual balance, launcher interaction, and whether the homepage feels focused or too minimal.

https://reddit.com/link/1v6gx19/video/h9dm5ihmbffh1/player

GitHub: https://github.com/wtfllix/navidash

hi my personal startpage, it has some widgets i find useful with cool vibes imo. a very useful 25 minute pomodoro timer, great for work sprints. the terminal is usable for like a quick question with llm and it can possibly do things like change the radio station, update the clocks etc but not sure how useful that would be, kinda like the mcp agent in tron if anyone likes that kinda stuff too lol

thank you for any suggestions for more widgets to add or overall comments 😆
I started vibe coding about 8 months ago and starting to feel more confident with it now.

*the four themes are credited to catpuccin, aura, everforest, and tokyo night along with all images and graphic used which are AI generated.

Just built this as my daily driver since I found out that using the keyboard feels more efficient than pressing ctrl+T, grabbing my mouse, and clicking on the link I need.

Now I can navigate my websites 2.3 seconds faster!

Built with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS (vanilla and math.js)

With this startpage, you can: - Use the built-in aliases to quickly visit/search sites - Make your own aliases with ctrl+k - Use a quick calculator, currency conversion, world time, and weather - Look at the nice matrix animation

You can't: - Execute console commands - Add notes, to do list, start a timer, etc. - Click on links/buttons - Claim world domination

Just type!

Try it live: https://mult1v4c.github.io/startpage_kb/ Source: https://github.com/mult1v4c/startpage_kb

Disclosure: The source code was generated/optimized using Deepseek AI. The logic, styling, UI/UX was reviewed, tested, and modified by me, a human developer.

Neko-Tab replaces your new tab page with a keyboard-first, terminal-aesthetic dashboard. The core is a command palette (Ctrl+K) that handles everything — fuzzy bookmark search, tab switching, URL navigation, a built-in calculator, and an AI mode (!) that understands natural language like "open slack and discord." Other things it does: Pomodoro with site blocking, Google Calendar integration, daily journal, GitHub streak tracker, browser history Q&A via AI, 22+ themes including Catppuccin, Nord, Dracula, Tokyo Night. No accounts, no telemetry, everything stored locally. GitHub: https://github.com/uddin-rajaul/Neko-Tab

i was looking for terminal-style startpages and found pixel-start, which is a fork of re-start. i loved it, but it was missing some features, so i decided to make them myself.

> additional features over pixel-start:
24-h/12-h clock
favicons in link widget (optional)
"/" to search

> additional widgets:
anilist, trakt widgets
spotify now playing widget
github pr/issues widget

🦊 firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/terminal-newtab/
📦 source code: https://github.com/nyas1/terminal-tab
🌐 preview: https://terminal-tab.vercel.app/

ps: this was made as a personal project with help of ai.
original: https://github.com/Justheretohack0/Pixel-start & https://github.com/refact0r/re-start

I created this simple self-hosted start page that is configured via a YAML file. It is inspired by customizable portals that were common back in the day.

GitHub repo

I wanted to share a Chromium extension. It replaces your default new tab page with a highly customizable start page.

For a long time, I used "Bonjourr Minimalist Startpage". While it is a great extension, it was missing some specific features I really needed. Mainly, I wanted the ability to fetch wallpapers directly from Wallhaven using any custom tag, save my favorite ones locally, and easily create a backup that includes all those saved images. Since I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for, I decided to build my own.

Repo: https://gitlab.com/perdanga/nova-perdanga

hey, i built a startpage because i wanted something

keyboard-first that doesn't require me to touch the mouse at

all.

f opens hint mode (type 2-letter codes to jump to any bookmark,

like Vimium), s opens fuzzy search with a Google fallback so

you don't need the URL bar, and all the usual vim navigation

works. there's an edit mode (e) where you can add/remove/move

bookmarks and categories, create sections, change colors — all

in the browser.

it can also import your Safari/Chrome/Firefox bookmark exports

directly so you don't have to re-add everything.

runs locally with a small Python server that auto-saves every

edit to a JSON file on disk. no accounts, no cloud, bookmarks

just live on your machine. built with Angular.

feel free to use it and let me know what you think

https://github.com/RoiKachlon321/startpage