Edit: The app website explains it much better: https://glow.as/
FWIW, I understand what a "Dashboard" means, never heard of a "link-in-bio" before. From the website, it seems to be something like an "About" page? But dynamic I guess.
I'm not sure of the value of making it more than it needs to be.
> Glow is a single link that you can use to house all the links to your social media profiles, websites, and other content. It's a great way to share all your content in one place, whether it be your favourite songs on Spotify, or a link to your latest products.
> Drag & drop
> Build your page block by block in minutes.
This looks interesting !
Here's an example: https://glow.as/alex
At a minimum, I expect a screenshot (preferrably multiple) and example code snippets that show some of what can be done. This is general guidance for any open source repository that desires other people to use it, not limited to this project.
For the team: From the term "personal dashboard," I was expecting something that would allow me to track data that's important to me, locally, like if I want to track my sleep stats and my spending and my food intake and whatever else. That's what "personal dashboard" means to me, and I was excited for a self-hosted, open source, clean way to do that.
Maybe that product exists, but sadly it has nothing to do with this one.
Initially I’d wanted to track spending as well but apps like YNAB cover this use-case better than I can in the near term so I struck it from the roadmap.
I’m trying to focus on health: meal planning and workout scheduling in a system flexible enough to make suggestions as your exercise regimen (and thus your nutritional requirements) change. Will also be looking into sleep tracking and other metrics.
Let me know if there’s anything else you’d want to see from an app like this. Happy to shoot you a link to the repo when the MVP gets off the ground.
Was pretty helpful for me, basically acted as a heads up display that I could look at to track my stats over the day (steps, meditation, focus time, etc.)
Personal dashboard builder is like project #2 or #3 right after TODO lists when it comes to new coders it seems like.
Zenobase https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4411518
Flow https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14279515
Wolfram Blog post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680283
RoutineTap (dead) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231406
And more:
This space is always a massive graveyard it seems.
But for something you can host yourself I've used https://github.com/onejgordon/flow-dashboard in the past
I'd love to see this expanded to non-software engineers. Artists, for example, could also use this.
edit: I spoke too soon. I see that artists can use this as well. The icon gallery needs a couple more, like Soundcloud, but the basics are there for everyone. Great job!
I always see these services targeted to individuals, but have you considered targeting SMBs? So many restaurants, plumbers, etc. have TERRIBLE websites that they struggle to maintain properly for various reasons. I don't see any reason that a tool like this wouldn't be sufficient.
Also just a flag that I get a 404 when I try to see the project's license.
- It's a very cool idea, and massive congrats on the launch!
- This has been done before, but a slick looking open source version is very cool! Have you looked at the concept of now pages, as this might lean into that? https://nownownow.com/about
- Personal dashboard builder is a poor term for this, as it implies a dashboard for personal data/usage.
- Link in bio is also a poor term, I suspect it's not a popular / well-known term. Personal Homepage is probably the best I can think of. Or now page perhaps?
- This GitHub readme says very little of substance, which gives me... "unfinished side project" vibes.
Best of luck with it!
If you want to connect with different segments, packaging this to make it available for things like yunohost (one click install) could be really valuable as more than a few ppl on tools like can have their own domains already setup.
I think the github landing page would remove a bunch of the questions below if you put screenshots of the steps and different kinds of outputs, and if it's really fun an animated gif that covers the entire experience in a few seconds (almost too fast).
If this could pull from custom APIs as well that'd be great. Maybe a few generic UI components for different kinds of data.
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I would like to see how the page editor looks and works, but there are no screenshots on the GitHub page (https://github.com/tryglow/glow) or in the hosted version (https://glow.as/).
I wish either to allow creating an account with an email or like a mini version to build a single dashboard.
I instantly give up on projects that don’t bother to SHOW.
DONT TELL ME, SHOW ME!
Most of my "system," if I can even call it that, is held together by a whole lot of duct tape and bubblegum and commands I ran one time that I found on StackOverflow.