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Dashy: A self-hostable personal dashboard

A self-hostable personal dashboard

Hamza Musa

08 Dec 2023 — 2 min read

Dashy is an amazing open-source software that empowers you with a self-hostable personal dashboard. It offers a wide range of features including status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor, and much more!

Dashy is written with Vue and can be easily installed as a standalone app or integrates with existing projects.

The app can be confidently deployed on popular platforms such as Vercel, Netlify, Heroku Render, GCP, or Easypanel. Additionally, it can be effortlessly deployed to a remote web server using Docker.

Features

📃 Support for multiple pages
🚦 Real-time status monitoring for each of your apps/links
📊 Use widgets to display info and dynamic content from self-hosted services
🔎 Instant search by name, domain, or tags + customizable hotkeys & keyboard shortcuts
🎨 Many built-in color themes, with UI color editor and support for custom CSS
🧸 Many icon options - Font-Awesome, homelab icons, auto-fetching Favicon, images, emojis, etc.
💂 Optional authentication with multi-user access, configurable privileges, and SSO support
🌎 Multi-language support, with 10+ human-translated languages, and more on the way
☁ Optional, encrypted, free off-site cloud backup and restore feature available
💼 A workspace view, for easily switching between multiple apps simultaneously
🛩️ A minimal view, for use as a fast-loading browser Startpage
🖱️ Choose app launch methods: new tab, same tab, clipboard, pop-up modal, or open in workspace view
📏 Customizable layout, sizes, text, component visibility, sort order, behavior, etc.
🖼️ Options for a full-screen background image, custom nav-bar links, HTML footer, title, etc.
🚀 Easy to setup with Docker, or on bare metal, or with 1-Click cloud deployment
⚙️ Easy single-file YAML-based configuration, and option to configure app through the UI
✨ Under active development with improvements and new features added regularly
🤏 Small bundle size, fully responsive UI, and PWA for basic offline access
🆓 100% free and open-source
🔐 Strong focus on privacy
Install easily using Docker
🌈 And loads more...

License

MIT License

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