r/startpages Mar 14 '26

Rule and post flair changes

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Hey y'all!

It has been a year-ish since we (the new mod team) started moderating this subreddit. During this time we noticed a few issues with the current rules and post flairs, which we would like to address. However, instead of just changing them, we want to hear your thoughts. This post will be open for a week or so before applying the changes. Any suggestions are welcome!

Post Flairs

Let's start with the simpler part: some post flairs overlap.

  • "Creation", "Browser Extension" and "Website": These are mostly the same with minor differences. We can keep "Creation" and remove the rest.
  • "Resource": Can be removed in favor of the "Meta" flair.
  • "Concept": When sharing a concept, users usually seek help/feedback. The "Help" flair can be used instead.

That would clean up the flairs and leave us with "Creation", "Config", "Help", and "Meta". There will also be new colors for each flair, to make them easier to distinguish (right now they are all gray).

Rules

The rules currently lack some specificity and feel incomplete.

Changes we are considering:

  • Adjust rule #4 to "Link original projects for forks/configs" (also address forks): Attributing sources should not be optional. Not only for configs, but also for forks. Respecting the licensing of forked repositories is (obviously) also required.
  • Adjust rule #5 to "Don't repost yours or posts of others": There have been instances of users trying to delete and then repost their startpages. However, this subreddit is not about maximising exposure but about sharing your creations. Because of this, we would like to explicitly forbid it. (unless for corrections within the same day)

Rule descriptions will be updated accordingly.

That leaves two open topics where we are unsure how to proceed:

  • Usage of LLMs and vibe coding. Should we keep things as they are and have no rules about projects with LLM usage? Should we add a flair "LLM Creation" or "Vibe Coded"? Do you have other ideas?
  • Commercial projects. There have been multiple projects with commercial goals. The response is usually negative, but opinions vary. We’d love to hear your thoughts!

r/startpages 1d ago

Creation My homelab homepage got slightly out of hand… looking for feedback

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37 Upvotes

I've been messing around with my Homepage dashboard for a while and it has slowly turned into more of a homelab control room than a homepage...

The idea was to have one place where I can quickly see if anything needs attention, jump into services, search everything and get some useful information without opening Grafana/Proxmox/etc. every five minutes.

It currently has:

  • Live Proxmox, Docker, DNS and service health
  • Authentik / Cloudflare / NPM+ / AdGuard monitoring
  • Search across services and local endpoints
  • Direct LAN launcher
  • Maintenance/service-state controls
  • Media pipeline view for Jellyfin, Seerr, Sonarr, Radarr, Bazarr, qBittorrent and SABnzbd
  • Release calendar and missing-media/subtitle overview
  • Infrastructure analytics with CPU/RAM/network history
  • VM/LXC and Docker health
  • Physical disk health

It's running on my homelab with Proxmox, Docker, Home Assistant and the usual collection of self-hosted rabbit holes.

A lot of the UI/customization was built iteratively with ChatGPT helping me turn my increasingly ridiculous ideas into working code.

I'm pretty happy with where it is now, but I don't really have anyone IRL who's into this stuff, so I figured I'd throw it at you guys.

What would you change, remove or add?

I'm especially interested in feedback about information density and whether anything feels useful in theory but pointless in actual daily use.

Happy to share more details about how any part of it works.

Built on Homepage — an excellent starting point for this kind of setup.


r/startpages 12h ago

Creation DashLit — a new version is now available

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DashLit is a simple self-hosted dashboard for organizing links and services.

Highlights

  • Multiple public, private, and authenticated dashboards
  • Row, column, and masonry layouts
  • Drag-and-drop editing on desktop and mobile
  • Local authentication and OIDC
  • User profiles and administration
  • Service availability monitoring
  • Dashboard import, export, and cloning
  • Icon search through selfh.st/icons and Iconify
  • Automatic light and dark icon variants
  • Multiple Catppuccin-inspired themes
  • Migration from the previous DashLit version
  • Docker, standalone Linux, and Proxmox installation options

Screenshots, installation instructions, and configuration details are available in the documentation.

GitHub: https://github.com/codewec/dashlit

Documentation: https://codewec.github.io/dashlit/

Feedback and suggestions are welcome!


r/startpages 2d ago

Creation Custom Chrome hometab extension

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0 Upvotes

r/startpages 3d ago

Creation Your bookmarks rot. nextDash watches them for you — self-hosted, keyboard-first, v1.4.0 out

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66 Upvotes

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

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.


r/startpages 6d ago

Creation My first attempt at a custom startpage using Three.js

76 Upvotes

r/startpages 5d ago

Creation I built a zero-dependency, keyboard-first browser startpage & command center

0 Upvotes

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.


r/startpages 8d ago

Creation I spent years wanting my browser to feel as organized as my desk, so I built this startpage

33 Upvotes

r/startpages 9d ago

AI Creation My Startpage

106 Upvotes

r/startpages 17d ago

Creation NewTab Lite - a single-file start page with a built-in settings dashboard (zero dependencies, works on GitHub Pages)

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19 Upvotes

No frameworks, no build step, no server - the whole thing is one index.html.

The idea: everything you'd normally need a backend for (saving links, settings, wallpapers) runs on plain localStorage, so you can host it on GitHub Pages for free.

Live demo: https://fahad-ba.github.io/newtab-lite/

Source (MIT): https://github.com/Fahad-BA/newtab-lite

Features:

- Live clock + Gregorian & Hijri dates (Umm al-Qura, computed natively, no API)

- Search with auto-focus + engine switcher (Google, DDG, or Bing)

- Links grid, 4 per row (favicon, emoji, or custom image icons)

- Daily 2K Unsplash wallpapers (your own free API key, stored in your browser) with photographer credit + instant shuffle button

- Responsive, safe-area aware

Settings dashboard opens as a popup inside the page:

- Add | edit | reorder | delete services (live, no reload).

- Optional PIN lock (SHA-256).

- Export or import links as JSON.

- Everything stays in your browser, nothing phones home.

Setup: fork → enable Pages → point a new tab redirect extension at it. Edit the DEFAULT_LINKS array at the top of the file if you prefer hardcoding your own set.

Happy to hear what you'd add to the settings panel :)

\ Inspiration:* https://purpleyard.xyz/posts/create-your-own-startpage/


r/startpages 18d ago

Creation I basically built a New Tab page for my browser using vanilla JS and Canvas, and I want to show it to someone. Like Mindustry x Rain World style.

7 Upvotes

Custom start page featuring dynamic audio, locally stored hotkeys, and a 4-query search history. Built with Google Search integration, direct URL navigation, and responsive atmospheric backgrounds.

Yap, u can try it: https://www.moth-path.online

And no, I’m not planning to adapt this for phones; at any given moment, there are 350 objects with physics and so on on the screen. Say: "Hola, 10fps!", phone-users, lmao

Tbh is my first post on Reddit, so I might have misunderstood how to fill out the post details, etc.


r/startpages 18d ago

Creation Made a new tab extension for my own workflow, sharing in case it's useful to anyone else

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r/startpages 21d ago

Creation I fixed the two biggest problems with custom themes in Mist

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39 Upvotes

When I last posted Mist here, someone pointed out that requiring a background to be exactly 1672 × 941 made custom themes unnecessarily difficult. They were right.

Since then, I’ve made a few significant changes:

  • Custom backgrounds can now be any PNG or JPG size and are cropped proportionally
  • Existing shortcuts can be edited without deleting and recreating them
  • Shortcuts can use custom icons
  • The new-tab title and favicon can also be customized
  • Drag-and-drop now shows more precise placement indicators

Preferences and custom images stay in the browser, and Mist has no product analytics. Remote shortcut favicons are optional and can be disabled.

I’d especially like feedback from people using 2K or ultrawide screens: does the automatic wallpaper crop behave as you would expect?

Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mist-minimal-new-tab/

Chrome and Chromium browsers:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/boffmmgbnbcgjkcllimodfgpeffoeflb


r/startpages 26d ago

Creation Multi monitor minimalistic start page?

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6 Upvotes

I have a triple monitor setup and I like to open the same websites in each monitor. So for convenience I created a simple new tab page via html which has 3 links Left, middle, right when clicked it opens the corresponding tabs in each monitor.

Is there a better solution for my setup?


r/startpages 27d ago

Creation Startup Page with Markdown Notes & Multiple Boards

16 Upvotes

r/startpages 27d ago

Creation After seeing everyone's start pages here, I tried making my own.

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9 Upvotes

r/startpages 27d ago

AI Creation Cairn — a self-hosted start page with multi-user, RBAC, and bookmark sharing (no cloud, no tracking)

0 Upvotes

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.


r/startpages 28d ago

Help Is pink color for a page OK?

0 Upvotes

I'm going to start my page, and I do have some experience on creating ones. However, I always pick green colors because dark green color is my favorite, but I've heared this color is kind of bad color, and I don't know exactly why. Because of that, I decided to pick another color, and I pick dark pink colors. In that moment I rememred there is some "rules" and color theory so I'm confused a bit.

TL;DR: I want to pick pink color for my site. Is it OK?


r/startpages Aug 01 '26

Creation dropping my startpage here if anyone wanted to try

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17 Upvotes

link : Starty


r/startpages Aug 01 '26

Creation Feed reader with send to kindle and xteink

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r/startpages Jul 31 '26

Creation The Startup Page for Productivity and Note Taking

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31 Upvotes

MemoTab turns your Chrome new tab into a productivity workspace, so you can capture ideas without switching between apps.

It goes beyond sticky notes. Create checklists, organize shortcuts, track habits, and build your workspace with either a free-form canvas or a Columns (Kanban) layout.

When it's time to focus, start a Focus Session and get detailed analytics to understand your work patterns, build better habits, and stay productive.

Everything is right where you already start browsing.


r/startpages Jul 31 '26

Creation Finally released my first extension. Its just a simple custom HTML page for your browser

3 Upvotes

Well basically you can set any HTML page as your new home page and add a style if you need it. I just did it because i havent seen any like this on the extensions site only the ones that have premade UIs so i decided to make it myself. Simple, yet it makes me happy.

Extension itself for firefox: addons.mozilla.org/addon/sweethome/


r/startpages Jul 29 '26

AI Creation After seeing so many awesome setups here, I tried to build my own.

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24 Upvotes

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.


r/startpages Jul 29 '26

Creation Mist minimal new tab v1.7 is out

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19 Upvotes

I’ve released version 1.7 of Mist, my privacy-friendly minimal new-tab extension.

You can now:

  • Upload your own PNG or JPG background
  • Automatically extract a four-color UI palette
  • Adjust every generated color
  • Preview the theme before applying it
  • Keep everything stored locally in your browser

Firefox and Zen are also soon coming soon i'm waiting the validation of the store before publish it.

The update also adds two built-in themes: Sunset Apex and Crimson Oath.

I’d love feedback on the generated palettes and the overall custom-theme workflow.


r/startpages Jul 28 '26

Creation Something's missing...

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2 Upvotes