Show HN: Add secure widgets on your Windows Desktop or write your own

Show HN: Add secure widgets on your Windows Desktop or write your own(desktop-dashboard.com)

2 points by Nair0 19 days ago | 5 comments

DeskDash is an app I built for myself in Rust with Tauri.

I wanted to be able to have my desktop be a lot more functional, run scripts from it, have todo lists, or simply make it prettier

There are already some existing solutions but all were either too slow, too unsecure or just weren't able to do enough

I chose to build my own, where each widget is sandboxed and locked behind permissions you approve. And where each widget is just HTML+JS code so it's easy to write my own for whatever I need

People on Reddit liked the idea so I ended up making it a full product

atmanactive 19 days ago |

Does it support portable mode?

Nair0 19 days ago | |

Not really, though you could move the installer from one device to the other and just regenerate the license key

It uses the Windows Credential Manager to save stuff like api keys for some widgets, and a couple of other things. Is part of the security model so widget makers are unable to reach any kind of sensitive details you hold

atmanactive 18 days ago | | |

I don't mind rebuilding the keys here and there when I change the machine, but I do mind having to rebuild everything from scratch. If portable mode isn't available, then, at minimum a full export/import is needed (sans keys, of course).