Glance

Glance is a lightweight self-hosted web dashboard that aggregates multiple information sources into a single, clean interface. It is configured with YAML and designed to be fast, low-dependency, and easy to customize for homelabs or personal startpages.

Key Features

• Multiple built-in widgets including RSS/Atom feeds, Reddit and Hacker News, YouTube and Twitch, weather, market tickers, and release trackers
• Infrastructure-oriented widgets such as Docker container status and basic server stats
• Multi-page layouts with columns and widget grouping, configured via YAML
• Customization via themes and user-provided CSS
• Extensible widget options (iframe, static HTML, fetch-and-render widgets)
• Caching per widget with configurable lifetimes; data is fetched on page load rather than background polling

Use Cases

• Personal startpage to follow news, communities, and media channels from one place
• Homelab overview combining service status (e.g., containers) with useful daily info
• Team or household dashboard for shared links, feeds, and lightweight monitoring at a glance

Limitations and Considerations

• Widgets do not continuously update in the background; a page refresh is required to fetch new data

Glance fits users who want a simple, fast dashboard that consolidates feeds and common widgets without running a heavy stack. Its YAML-driven configuration and extensibility make it suitable for both minimal startpages and richer homelab dashboards.