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Glance: A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place

211 points by ulrischa 2y ago

warthog 2y ago
curious about the UX really - feeds are a lot of things, hackernews, linkedin, twitter, instagram, techcrunch, bbc, my bank account, stock prices, crypto and so on how do you make it extensible?
- JKCalhoun 2y ago
  I was thinking of those "Magic Mirror" frameworks — and apparently MagicMirror² [1] is the name of a popular one. They're modular and do more or less the same thing. (I confess, I consulted an AI for the name of this one.) [1] https://magicmirror.builders https://magicmirror.builders
BeetleB 2y ago
People love it, but I could never figure out how to use it (either in Windows or Linux). The actual TUI was also fairly unstable (as in long hangs, etc). Coworker had the same experience.
- reddit_clone 2y ago
  I was able to get it to run in minutes. (copy over the sample glance.yml file in folder and do a 'docker run'. Haven't tried other methods.
- PurpleRamen 2y ago
  Are you thinking of a different project with the same name? Like glances? Or Openstack glance? This is a new webapp, which seems to have no TUI. And it's indeed not much work to set it up with the example config.
  - tecleandor 2y ago
    It kinda looks like the 'wtf' app... maybe that one? https://github.com/wtfutil/wtf https://github.com/wtfutil/wtf
  - BeetleB 2y ago
    My bad. Yes, I was thinking of glances.
- ChrisClark 2y ago
  I don't think this project has a TUI at all, it's just a self hosted page of your social feeds, right?
  - prmoustache 2y ago
    I think previous commenter hasn't visited the link and mistake this for the glances[1] project (with a trailing s) which is a glorified top command written in python which provides both a tui and a web interface. https://github.com/nicolargo/glances https://github.com/nicolargo/glances
dijit 2y ago
at first I thought this was Glances[0]; a python-based htop alternative that has some incredibly useful outputs (like statsd, influxdb etc;) [0]: https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
kevmo314 2y ago
Reminds me vaguely of Windows Desktop Gadgets, anyone remember those? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Desktop_Gadgets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Desktop_Gadgets
- WorldMaker 2y ago
  They are back again as Windows Widgets: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/tips/widgets https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/tips/widgets There's even a Developer-specific host for Windows Widgets in Windows Dev Home with some relatives of the GitHub widgets in Glance here, plus system performance things like CPU and RAM utilization. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-home/#dev-home-dashboard-widgets https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-home/#dev-home...
ketralnis 2y ago
I know so many developers (including me) that build this very thing. There's clearly demand for it, but no incentive for any large services to integrate their stuff into it when they can demand that you go directly to them :(
- langsoul-com 2y ago
  Basically RSS all over again. Closed Web keeps data and users on their platform. Or an insanely expensive api, cough reddit, will do the trick.
Arcuru 2y ago
Why do these things always have a stock ticker front and center? Who wants to look at stock tickers all the time?
- JKCalhoun 2y ago
  Maybe water cooler chit-chat.
- tazu 2y ago
  Neurotic people with gambling addictions?
- jethro_tell 2y ago
  People that make a percentage of their income from company stock? I don't really want to be a stock owner, but the difference between paying my bills and doing more comes down to how people feel about the value of my companies stock.
- huhuhu111 2y ago
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- bongobingo1 2y ago
  Some people obviously care, but beyond that, I think it's an easy low hanging fruit when building them. There's lots of API's for it, the data is extremely regular, you get to show a graph and colorize some +/- and it has enough "bits" (symbol, name, price, delta) to look showy and interesting without being too complicated to actually design - the symbols even basically fixed width at 3-5ch.
- swiftcoder 2y ago
  BigTech employees often have 50%+ of their total comp paid in stock. Startup employees can be drastically more. You get real twitchy about stock market movements around vesting time...
- bryanrasmussen 2y ago
  bank employees who often get these kind of customized dashboards setup.
stevenicr 2y ago
There was a golden time years ago.. when many sites had rss easily discoverable, and I used netvibes, pageflakes and my.yahoo as a startpage - was really great to have many topics and sources auto sorted by time/date of publish.. but the net started going more walled garden, places that had easy to find rss started to hide them and people started putting more important data being thicker walled gardens.. Imagine how much better it could be.. I suppose the only way this would be possible these days is to give crew AI your logins and let them scrape fbk marketplace and whatever news and bring it to your feeds place - remaking rss and filtering.. from those places that don't want you using them via rss and control of filters..
- JKCalhoun 2y ago
  Maybe it's self-filtering then. Stick to the sites that still have RSS (for your feeds, that is).
- prmoustache 2y ago
  My experience is that the websites without rss support are usually the worst and the ones you don't want to visit. It has become easy to ignore those so "walled gardens".
- deleted 2y ago
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amanzi 2y ago
This looks great. The preconfigured page they provide as an example is almost exactly like I would want it to be configured. I must be the exact target market for this!
shireboy 2y ago
I have a soft spot for this sort of thing, and have built several. The challenge always comes with all the personal stuff I want on it- account balances, personal calendars, todo lists, etc. I’ll get it set up just so, then some api changes etc.
- PurpleRamen 2y ago
  I think it would makes much more sense, to have a dedicated project which is focusing on just collecting the data and have a community to maintain updates. Then all those frontends could connect to whatever API this would offer. There are many fancy projects like this for high profile environments in companies or specialized areas (like home assistant), but they all are very cumbersome to start and maintain. Something simple which could run with a oneliner and some config-file, in good old unix-mindset is really missing in this space.
  - rakoo 2y ago
    > think it would makes much more sense, to have a dedicated project which is focusing on just collecting the data and have a community to maintain updates. Then all those frontends could connect to whatever API this would offer. It already exists: https://woob.tech/ https://woob.tech/
    - PurpleRamen 2y ago
      Yes, something like that, but not like this. This is too inflexible and limited. The datascrappers here are written in code, which makes it impossible to exchange them with other projects. And it seems there is not even a server which makes requesting data from an external process possible, to feed it to your own code. There are many tools like this, with a collection of specialized datascrappers for their own demand, and they are all on their own, isolated from the rest and everyone is constantly recreating the same.
      - rakoo 2y ago
        It is code, so it is the most flexible that can exist. You can call the code with an application that includes it, you can make your own server with your own API although that isn't really useful if the server is going to be local anyway (most of these thing deal with private data, you don't want a central entity managing private data). You can call a process from another process, I don't see what's stopping you. Perhaps if you have an example of what you want to build I can understand how woob doesn't fit what you want to do
ulrischa 2y ago
Only point: Why can't this not be made with php? This would be great to run on a cheap webhosting
WorldMaker 2y ago
I thought one of the points of building things with Go is that you get "single binary" deploys. Why is the preferred deployment tool for this a docker container?
- gtsop 2y ago
  Many people have entire setups around deploying just docker applications, it's as if it is a build target, so to say.
thebiss 2y ago
Those interested in this might also like MagicMirror https://magicmirror.builders/ https://magicmirror.builders/ . It has many plugins, an active community, and renders in an Electron UI or in your browser.

211 points by ulrischa 2y ago

curious about the UX really - feeds are a lot of things, hackernews, linkedin, twitter, instagram, techcrunch, bbc, my bank account, stock prices, crypto and so on how do you make it extensible?

JKCalhoun 2y ago
I was thinking of those "Magic Mirror" frameworks — and apparently MagicMirror² [1] is the name of a popular one. They're modular and do more or less the same thing. (I confess, I consulted an AI for the name of this one.) [1] https://magicmirror.builders https://magicmirror.builders

BeetleB 2y ago

People love it, but I could never figure out how to use it (either in Windows or Linux). The actual TUI was also fairly unstable (as in long hangs, etc). Coworker had the same experience.

reddit_clone 2y ago
I was able to get it to run in minutes. (copy over the sample glance.yml file in folder and do a 'docker run'. Haven't tried other methods.
PurpleRamen 2y ago
Are you thinking of a different project with the same name? Like glances? Or Openstack glance? This is a new webapp, which seems to have no TUI. And it's indeed not much work to set it up with the example config.
- tecleandor 2y ago
  It kinda looks like the 'wtf' app... maybe that one? https://github.com/wtfutil/wtf https://github.com/wtfutil/wtf
- BeetleB 2y ago
  My bad. Yes, I was thinking of glances.
ChrisClark 2y ago
I don't think this project has a TUI at all, it's just a self hosted page of your social feeds, right?
- prmoustache 2y ago
  I think previous commenter hasn't visited the link and mistake this for the glances[1] project (with a trailing s) which is a glorified top command written in python which provides both a tui and a web interface. https://github.com/nicolargo/glances https://github.com/nicolargo/glances

dijit 2y ago

at first I thought this was Glances[0]; a python-based htop alternative that has some incredibly useful outputs (like statsd, influxdb etc;) [0]: https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

kevmo314 2y ago

Reminds me vaguely of Windows Desktop Gadgets, anyone remember those? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Desktop_Gadgets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Desktop_Gadgets

WorldMaker 2y ago
They are back again as Windows Widgets: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/tips/widgets https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/tips/widgets There's even a Developer-specific host for Windows Widgets in Windows Dev Home with some relatives of the GitHub widgets in Glance here, plus system performance things like CPU and RAM utilization. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-home/#dev-home-dashboard-widgets https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-home/#dev-home...

ketralnis 2y ago

I know so many developers (including me) that build this very thing. There's clearly demand for it, but no incentive for any large services to integrate their stuff into it when they can demand that you go directly to them :(

langsoul-com 2y ago
Basically RSS all over again. Closed Web keeps data and users on their platform. Or an insanely expensive api, cough reddit, will do the trick.

Arcuru 2y ago

Why do these things always have a stock ticker front and center? Who wants to look at stock tickers all the time?

JKCalhoun 2y ago
Maybe water cooler chit-chat.
tazu 2y ago
Neurotic people with gambling addictions?
jethro_tell 2y ago
People that make a percentage of their income from company stock? I don't really want to be a stock owner, but the difference between paying my bills and doing more comes down to how people feel about the value of my companies stock.
huhuhu111 2y ago
[dead]
bongobingo1 2y ago
Some people obviously care, but beyond that, I think it's an easy low hanging fruit when building them. There's lots of API's for it, the data is extremely regular, you get to show a graph and colorize some +/- and it has enough "bits" (symbol, name, price, delta) to look showy and interesting without being too complicated to actually design - the symbols even basically fixed width at 3-5ch.
swiftcoder 2y ago
BigTech employees often have 50%+ of their total comp paid in stock. Startup employees can be drastically more. You get real twitchy about stock market movements around vesting time...
bryanrasmussen 2y ago
bank employees who often get these kind of customized dashboards setup.

stevenicr 2y ago

There was a golden time years ago.. when many sites had rss easily discoverable, and I used netvibes, pageflakes and my.yahoo as a startpage - was really great to have many topics and sources auto sorted by time/date of publish.. but the net started going more walled garden, places that had easy to find rss started to hide them and people started putting more important data being thicker walled gardens.. Imagine how much better it could be.. I suppose the only way this would be possible these days is to give crew AI your logins and let them scrape fbk marketplace and whatever news and bring it to your feeds place - remaking rss and filtering.. from those places that don't want you using them via rss and control of filters..

JKCalhoun 2y ago
Maybe it's self-filtering then. Stick to the sites that still have RSS (for your feeds, that is).
prmoustache 2y ago
My experience is that the websites without rss support are usually the worst and the ones you don't want to visit. It has become easy to ignore those so "walled gardens".
deleted 2y ago
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amanzi 2y ago

This looks great. The preconfigured page they provide as an example is almost exactly like I would want it to be configured. I must be the exact target market for this!

shireboy 2y ago

I have a soft spot for this sort of thing, and have built several. The challenge always comes with all the personal stuff I want on it- account balances, personal calendars, todo lists, etc. I’ll get it set up just so, then some api changes etc.

PurpleRamen 2y ago
I think it would makes much more sense, to have a dedicated project which is focusing on just collecting the data and have a community to maintain updates. Then all those frontends could connect to whatever API this would offer. There are many fancy projects like this for high profile environments in companies or specialized areas (like home assistant), but they all are very cumbersome to start and maintain. Something simple which could run with a oneliner and some config-file, in good old unix-mindset is really missing in this space.
- rakoo 2y ago
  > think it would makes much more sense, to have a dedicated project which is focusing on just collecting the data and have a community to maintain updates. Then all those frontends could connect to whatever API this would offer. It already exists: https://woob.tech/ https://woob.tech/
  - PurpleRamen 2y ago
    Yes, something like that, but not like this. This is too inflexible and limited. The datascrappers here are written in code, which makes it impossible to exchange them with other projects. And it seems there is not even a server which makes requesting data from an external process possible, to feed it to your own code. There are many tools like this, with a collection of specialized datascrappers for their own demand, and they are all on their own, isolated from the rest and everyone is constantly recreating the same.
    - rakoo 2y ago
      It is code, so it is the most flexible that can exist. You can call the code with an application that includes it, you can make your own server with your own API although that isn't really useful if the server is going to be local anyway (most of these thing deal with private data, you don't want a central entity managing private data). You can call a process from another process, I don't see what's stopping you. Perhaps if you have an example of what you want to build I can understand how woob doesn't fit what you want to do

ulrischa 2y ago

Only point: Why can't this not be made with php? This would be great to run on a cheap webhosting

WorldMaker 2y ago

I thought one of the points of building things with Go is that you get "single binary" deploys. Why is the preferred deployment tool for this a docker container?

gtsop 2y ago
Many people have entire setups around deploying just docker applications, it's as if it is a build target, so to say.

thebiss 2y ago

Those interested in this might also like MagicMirror https://magicmirror.builders/ https://magicmirror.builders/ . It has many plugins, an active community, and renders in an Electron UI or in your browser.