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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/terAREya on 2025-02-21 19:58:51+00:00.
Finally got around to trying by u/SvilenMarkov/
First off this is such a great tool and gives me all the things I ever wanted in a personal dashboard. I remember waaaaay back in the day, I think it was google who launched a personalized start page where you could give it some basic information like your zip code and you would have a weather forecast widget and you could put links and stuff. It was really minimal but in my head I wanted so much more.
Today we have tons of start pages, especially in the selfhosted arena. Many if not most that get talked about in r/selfhosted are geared towards the apps we self host and monitoring them to an extent. Glance though, to me anyway, is like a blank canvas and a complete set of paints, pens, pencils and crayons. I can make this thing show everything I ever wanted.
One of the great things about self hosting is learning new things and exercising muscles we perhaps dont often have to. My experience with Glance went like this:
- install and look at the defaults “Wow this is neat”
- Look at the documentation and see what else I can do (lightbulbs start popping over my head)
- Like eight hours later I have an API key from the train and bus authority where I live, I have a decent python script to get what I want from the api (train times, alerts and delays, realtime information about individual trains and train stops, etc), an installed and configured rsshub installation to turn the API json into an rss feed, an apache https container to host my rss, a few cronjobs, logging and notifications in case things start to awry and BOOM my first custom page in Glance showing a bunch of local info about my town, local government and school calendars and train times and all that.
I LOVE it when an app can excite me and get my creative juices flowing.
Thanks to the dev(s) of Glance and to this community for praising it in the past which lead me to try it.