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A Chrome and Firefox extension that displays GitHub Trending, Hacker News, Product Hunt and Designer News on every new tab.
The site is completely customisable, you can create a start page that suits your own style.
Initially, I built the site to only work for me, however I wanted the website to be re-usable for anyone. You can now login to your own Twitter/Spotify/Strava accounts for your own personal feed.
Everything is stored locally in your own browser so there's none of your data floating around in the clouds somewhere.
You can find the code at https://github.com/allister-grange/startertab.
Here are some examples of themes in a gif:
This is very nice. It does, however, assume you only use one browser, or one device. I use a static page (https://github.com/rcarmo/sui) that I’ve since hacked to have zero off-LAN dependencies other than the weather, and which I set as home in everything.
But I like the idea of having a few widgets, so this is good inspiration - I just need to add an express server to store a bit of JSON.
nice!
Some suggestions for me at least
1. Why I can't I set any tile to any type?
2. An RSS feed tile would be nice. It seems I can only follow HN, Reddit, Twitter
3. Would be great if I could drag and drop tiles to arrange like (https://nomcopter.github.io/react-mosaic/) or (https://xcfox.github.io/react-tile-pane/demo/) etc...
4. A random image tile would be nice
This looks very nice, thanks for sharing it. I really like the way the settings pane works, being able to see the change right away instead of the browser.
Since many people have shared theirs, I have also built a new-tab extension for a few years ago, it displays Hacker News, Product Hunt, GitHub Trending and a few more platforms on the grid, I have ~2k people using it: https://github.com/karakanb/devo
I will experiment with this settings design to incorporate sth similar in Devo, thanks for the inspiration!
I generally agree - a new tab should, for the most part, be distraction-free.
However, with some cleverness, you can add content to the new tab page that adds value - e.g. AnkiTab (https://github.com/corollari/ankiTab) to help you review your decks. Sure, it's a minor distraction, but it's time-bounded (unlike a news feed), and theoretically it's a net gain if your decks contain knowledge that's genuinely useful to you.