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Show HN: Inspired by open startups, I built an API-driven personal dashboard

2 points by leerob 7y ago

I've always been fascinated by open startups[0] and their transparency with sharing metrics. I wanted to create something similar for my personal site. To create this, I used Next.js API routes[1] + Now serverless functions[2]. ◆ Unsplash API for views/downloads ◆ YouTube API for views/subscribers ◆ Google Analytics API for page views Bonus: Uses SWR[3] to refresh stale content https://leerob.io/dashboard --- [0]: https://baremetrics.com/open-startups [1]: https://nextjs.org/docs/api-routes/introduction [2]: https://zeit.co [3]: https://swr.now.sh

duiker101 7y ago
Very nice post, I have been making my own dashboard(with mostly private APIs) and I didn't know about SWR. Also, your dashboard and website looks very nice!
- leerob 7y ago
  Hey, thanks! Is your dashboard open-source?
  - duiker101 7y ago
    maybe one day! but for now it's just a bunch of scripts that connect to my own private services so not really anything that would be useful to anyonw.
darekkay 7y ago
I agree with my sibling poster - this looks really nice. I also did not know SWR, which sounds really handy. I'm developing an open-source general-purpose Dashboard [1] and you just gave me an idea for one more use case (metrics sharing) - thanks :) Is your dashboard by any chance open source as well? [1] https://github.com/darekkay/dashboard https://github.com/darekkay/dashboard
- leerob 7y ago
  It is! https://github.com/leerob/leerob.io https://github.com/leerob/leerob.io