Glance
A fast start page that gathers your feeds, links and service status in one place
Glance is a self hosted dashboard that shows RSS feeds, Reddit and Hacker News, weather, calendars, bookmarks, site monitors and Docker containers on one page. It is a single Go binary under AGPL-3.0, configured in YAML.
Best for when
- you want a fast start page with feeds and homelab status together
- you are happy to configure everything in a YAML file
- you want something that uses almost no resources
Watch out for
- there is no built in authentication, so do not publish it as is
- third party sources can rate limit or block requests, and widgets then go empty
- all changes are YAML edits, with no visual editor
One page to open in the morning
You describe pages, columns and widgets in a YAML file: a feed column, a weather widget, a list of your services with their status, the latest videos from channels you follow, a markets widget. Glance renders it as a quick, clean page you can set as your browser's start page.
It suits people who want a personal start page that mixes reading and homelab status, rather than a pure app launcher. Themes and custom widgets that call your own APIs let you adapt it without writing a frontend.
What running it involves
It is tiny: one binary or container, low RAM, no database. Your whole dashboard is the config file, which belongs in a backup or a git repository.
Widgets fetch data from outside services, and some of those, such as Reddit, rate limit or block requests from servers. Editing happens in YAML only, so there is no drag and drop. If you show Docker containers or internal links, keep the page private behind a VPN or an authenticating proxy, because Glance itself has no login.
