Ask HN: Which personal dashboard solution do you use?

by woogiewonkaon 12/6/2018, 11:26 PMwith 6 comments

I'm looking to organize all of my life's information into a single dashboard - things like financial, health, goals and progress information. For example, I want to be able to pull up the dashboard and see things like: My IRA info, bank balance, Apple Health data, analytics data for certain web properties I care about, stock information, perhaps a few posts from HN or certain Reddit subs I follow. Basically, all the things I might check on any given day, in one place so I just glance at it and be done. I imagine it would need the ability to add custom types of charts, perhaps connect via API to various services etc... Does anything like this exists?

by __don 12/6/2018, 11:41 PM

Heh. Me too! I haven't found anything good yet.

I've started to spec out what I want, and have been looking at APIs (or scraping) for the various information I want to track. Some of it is fairly easy (the web/server monitoring), some of it hard (bank access).

I was sorta surprised I couldn't find an established solution, honestly.

by Odenwaelderon 12/8/2018, 8:46 AM

One idea would be to use something like Grafana or Superset, but you'd still need an ETL pipeline behind everything.

by bigiainon 12/7/2018, 12:05 AM

Isn't that called "a smartphone"?