grimoire VS headscale-ui

A long time ago (9 days), on a distant land (/r/selfhosted), the project Grimoire was announced. Its promise was simple: make bookmarking magical and fun! And open-source, of course!

Hello there! I'm Robert, the creator of Grimoire.

I'm very flattered by such good observations and the warm welcome for this project. I won't be able to respond to every comment from you guys, but you bet I will read them all and take notes!

For now, Grimoire is at 1/10 of its potential, and I will work hard to make it worthy of being a good contender for your default bookmark manager. Definitely, it's missing many features, like a dedicated browser extension, import/export capabilities, and better documentation, and I'm well aware of that.

Was the launch rushed? Maybe, but I thought it would be great to hear your opinions and perhaps even appeal to some potential contributors (wink wink).

For now, I want to address the most common issues that prevent some of you from even running and testing it (clearly an oversight on my side). Then I will write a blog post on https://grimoire.pro to answer some of your questions and doubts, so (if not now, but maybe in the not-too-distant future), give it a chance.

Thank you again, and big kudos to user hunderbong for mentioning Grimoire on HN!

However, I'm encountering significant challenges when it comes to setting up a seemingly simple static website for the UI.

I've been running wireguard on my own for a few years. I like it, but wish there was a better GUI.

I tried installing headscale. I didn't feel like I got the immediate rush of "cool, I have the baseline thing working" without reading the docs. And, I needed to use this for a GUI: https://github.com/gurucomputing/headscale-ui. I love the command line and am happy to use that, but I'm unsure if there is a benefit to headscale over wireguard if I'm doing that.

I just read this article on tailscale vs. openziti and it mentioned netmaker (a YC company). I tried installing it, but out of the box, "DNS" did not seem to work correctly.

Is anyone here a power user that also benefits from a full fledged GUI? Is tailscale the only option there? I prefer to self-host whenever I can, despite loving tailscale and the people behind it.

There's also gurucomputing/headscale-ui which I've used personally. It's been adequate, though the lack of native arm64 builds until recently has put me off a bit.

How does this compare to headscale-ui?

Headscale's ui is fine (well ish, I'd like headscale to write an API for ACLs). I might be biased though because I wrote it.

Have you tried https://github.com/gurucomputing/headscale-ui ?

My Dev container is here: https://github.com/gurucomputing/headscale-ui/blob/master/documentation/development.md

I threw my hat into the headscale crowd instead (to the point of writing a UI for it) but I'll have to give netmaker another spin soon.