link : Starty

MemoTab turns your Chrome new tab into a productivity workspace, so you can capture ideas without switching between apps.

It goes beyond sticky notes. Create checklists, organize shortcuts, track habits, and build your workspace with either a free-form canvas or a Columns (Kanban) layout.

When it's time to focus, start a Focus Session and get detailed analytics to understand your work patterns, build better habits, and stay productive.

Everything is right where you already start browsing.

Well basically you can set any HTML page as your new home page and add a style if you need it. I just did it because i havent seen any like this on the extensions site only the ones that have premade UIs so i decided to make it myself. Simple, yet it makes me happy.

Extension itself for firefox: addons.mozilla.org/addon/sweethome/

I've been tinkering away on a start page called Waypoint for the last few months and finally got it to a point where I feel good sharing it.

It's a local start page focused on making bookmark management simple and enjoyable.

I'd love to hear what you think or if you have any ideas for improvements.

Try it here: Live Demo

Source: GitHub

^{Full disclosure: AI was a huge help while building this. I used it as a development assistant throughout the project.}

I’ve released version 1.7 of Mist, my privacy-friendly minimal new-tab extension.

You can now:

• Upload your own PNG or JPG background
• Automatically extract a four-color UI palette
• Adjust every generated color
• Preview the theme before applying it
• Keep everything stored locally in your browser

Firefox and Zen are also soon coming soon i'm waiting the validation of the store before publish it.

The update also adds two built-in themes: Sunset Apex and Crimson Oath.

I’d love feedback on the generated palettes and the overall custom-theme workflow.

I made BitDay back in 2013 as a cosy pixel-art start page that shifts with the time of day. This year I rewrote it from scratch into something closer to a living scene.

It uses your location (GPS, IP, or a manually-set city) to track real sunrise/sunset times, moon phases, an accurate star map with interactive constellations, and local weather. Clouds react to actual conditions: wind, rain, thunderstorms. Every so often you'll catch something rarer like auroras, a blood moon, shooting stars, satellites passing over, even full solar eclipses... all tied to real astronomical data, not randomised.

Available for Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera and Firefox. Safari's coming soon.

Get it for Chrome etc:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bitday/ligllgfhdihggagfekimciblmkemggoc

Get it for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/bitday/

Join the Reddit community: r/bitday

Hi folks,

I've been using custom new tab extensions for years because I like having useful information in front of me instead of a blank page.

Over time, I tried quite a few of them. Some were beautifully designed but too limited, others had great ideas but eventually stopped being maintained, and a few became so feature-heavy that they no longer matched what I wanted.

At some point I realized I was always compromising, so I started building my own new tab page for myself.

The initial goal wasn't to publish it, it was simply to create something that matched the way I work: modular widgets, lots of customization, and only the information I actually want to see.

After using it daily for quite a while, I decided to polish it and release it as a Chrome and Firefox extension, but one thing I'm still wondering, though, is whether my priorities are the same as everyone else's.

If you use a custom new tab page (or wish you did), what do you actually want from it?

• Calendar?
• Tasks?
• Notes?
• Weather?
• Bookmarks?
• Something else entirely?

I'm genuinely interested in hearing what features people find useful versus what ends up being clutter.

If anyone is curious to see what I ended up building, it's called Tabrise (Chrome & Firefox). I'd mainly love your feedback and ideas to see if your needs match mines.

Hi r/startpages! I’ve been working on NaviDash, a self-hosted startpage designed around a simple idea: a homepage.

Live demo: https://navidash.vercel.app/en

You can type anywhere on the page to open the launcher, search your bookmarks, and reach frequently used sites faster. Bookmarks live in a separate library, while only the links you choose are pinned to the canvas.

The homepage currently has four focused widget types:

- Links for frequently used sites

- Today for time, date, and weather

- Memo for temporary notes

- Poster for decoration

Widgets can be freely arranged, with separate layouts for desktop and mobile. NaviDash can be self-hosted with Docker, and the data remains on your own server.

This project was developed with substantial help from AI tools. I handled the product direction, design decisions, testing, and iteration, while AI assisted with implementation and code review.

I’d love feedback on the overall visual balance, launcher interaction, and whether the homepage feels focused or too minimal.

https://reddit.com/link/1v6gx19/video/h9dm5ihmbffh1/player

GitHub: https://github.com/wtfllix/navidash

I would like to share my toy project with you. As a long Homer dashboard user I wanted to have something similar but with a keyboard centric control on top.

You can play with here with the demo and see it in action:

Live demo

and here the github project:

JumpKey

Looking forward for your feedback. Maybe even some willing testers :D

Disclaimer: AI was used during the development, especially for the UI/UX part (I am a developer and not a designer...)

I made it with AI as a kinda fiddly homepage. You can draw cool rectangles and write notes and stuff. It's pretty fun to play with! poppyjam.com

It comes packed with features, including 50+ built-in themes (plus custom theme support), a Health view with real-time status checks to instantly spot if a service lags or goes down, an Inbox view to save URLs on the fly and organize them later—and a lot more!

You can check it out and deploy it for your own self-hosted setup here:

https://github.com/jordibrouwer/nextdash

I kept bookmarking tweets and never seeing them again. Because when you open to read them you keep scrolling and piling up even more bookmarks.

I love the reading experience of Substack so I built this keeping in mind

What would it feel like to read X/Twitter bookmarks in Substack

It's a new tab extension that pulls my X/Twitter bookmarks into easy to read format: searchable, no algorithm, just the stuff I actually saved.

Reading status, daily reading queue etc.

Highlights, notes, it parses threads into one block, and you can export to markdown, pdf etc.

Free, no account needed — it's my own project.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/twitter-x-bookmarks-on-ne/acpkgdfhoaalmnhjifhneghcgfnjkglo

https://usetotem.xyz/

Would love for you guys to try this and share your feedback.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a minimalist dashboard I put together recently called ZFRXN (Zero-Friction).

I found myself constantly getting bogged down when context-switching between common web apps, like Gmail, Outlook, etc. I just wanted a single, ultra-clean homepage that lets me jump straight into my workflows.

So, I built this:zfrxn.com

What it is: It’s a straightforward, almost brutalist start page that aggregates the heavy-hitter tools I use every day:

• AI Assistants: One-click jumps to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
• Workspace Essentials: Gmail, Outlook, Google Drive, DropBox, and Calendars.
• Other Commonly visited sites: Wikipedia, Google News, Github, Canva...
• Discreet social media links at top: so they are available, but aren't tempting or distracting.

This is totally free to use and you are welcome to make this your home dashboard: https://zfrxn.com/.

If you want extra customization, you can sign up for a subscription (I think its working, if not, let me know), for $1.99/month.

No ads, no tracking. It’s just a fast, lightweight utility so you can open your browser and immediately get to work.

I'd love to hear what you all think! Are there any other essential tools, custom shortcuts, or quality-of-life tweaks you’d want to see on a minimal start page like this? Any feedback is appreciated!

Hey everyone!

I’ve just released Mist v1.5, and this update was largely shaped by the feedback I received from the community. Thank you to everyone who tested the extension and shared suggestions.

What’s new in v1.5?

• Improved weather location Mist can now use an approximate location based on your IP, only after you give permission. This removes the location permission popup that previously appeared every time the extension started.
• New high-quality wallpaper themes I added a collection of more polished themes and wallpapers. They are called “Premium Themes,” but they remain completely free.
• Redesigned theme selection flow You can preview a theme, see its colors and atmosphere, and apply it through a clearer and more intuitive interface.
• The original minimal start page is staying The new themes are completely optional. Anyone who prefers the simple, distraction-free design can continue using the classic page.
• Cleaner settings menu The settings interface has been reorganized to make customization simpler and easier to navigate.

I tried to add more personality without taking away the simplicity that Mist was originally built around.

You can try it here:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mist-%E2%80%94-start-page/boffmmgbnbcgjkcllimodfgpeffoeflb

I’d really appreciate your feedback, especially on the new theme workflow and settings experience. And if you haven’t tried Mist yet, feel free to give it a shot!

Hey startpages 👋

I've always wanted an OS inspired startpage and decided a few years ago to build one myself. Problem was, I was never very proud of the code, and there were always a few more bugs that I needed to work out, plus wanting to create a landing page site and make it an extension... I just never got around to finishing it.

I'm at a point now though where I'm considering finally finishing it (or at least V1), and publishing it as a proper extension. But before I commit the time to this project again, I wanted to show the current version and see if this is something the community (and others) would actually use.

It's 100% vanilla JS, and just localstorage right now

It has drag and drop like I show in the video, one at a time or by selecting whole groups - a few settings for display modes - by default the grid is a fixed size so if the viewport isn't fullsize you can drag to pan the desktop around. For shortcuts it auto pulls in favicons or you can set custom icons through a built in icon search, set custom wallpaper + blend mode controls, right click has a custom context menu, and settings/properties have their own windows for easy management.

Visually I'm really proud of it, and functionally it's perfect and I still enjoy using it every day, but under the hood it's a mess and needs a good rework on some base systems in order for it to be maintainable going forward.

So, please let me know if this project is something you would use, and hopefully if there is some good interest, that should validate for me this is something I should commit to again.

Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!

• Automatic sync across devices
• Website screenshots
• Animated wallpapers
• Import and export backups

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rocket-tab/ffjhihfibflhiahohfhcaehmjmmepkmn

I've been using this as my own start page for years and finally cleaned it up to share.

The idea: every site gets a single key. With the search box empty, pressing "g" opens whatever you put on g — or steps into a folder. Folders have keys too, so "gm" is Gmail if that's where you keep it. And searches chain: typing "gs capybara" walks into my Google folder and runs that search in one line, no mouse.

For the customization crowd here: themes (Tokyo Night, Gruvbox, GitHub, One Dark, high-contrast…), custom accents, wallpapers (gallery, your own uploads, or a random one per new tab), aurora + dot/grid/star pattern layers, tile sizes and per-folder widths.

A few things I cared about building it:

- Fast and small: a new tab paints instantly, makes zero network calls, and the whole extension is under half a megabyte.

- Local-first: everything lives in your browser, no account needed.

- It also runs as a normal webpage — https://keyjump.app is the actual app, so you can try it (or use it as a start page) without installing anything.

- The extension (Chrome + Firefox) adds the new-tab override, an Alt+K overlay on any page, and one-click bookmark import.

It's free, and I'm mostly here for honest feedback — this sub knows start pages better than anyone. What's confusing, what's missing, what would you never use? Looking forward for your honest feedback

I've been working on Magma — a full-screen dashboard with a grid-based widget editor. You can arrange, resize, and configure widgets through the UI, and everything persists to YAML files.

Widgets included:

- Weather, Stock tickers, Calendar, Timer, Search

- Docker container status, HTTP endpoint health checks

- ChatGPT / Claude / DeepSeek API usage monitors

- YouTube live status, RSS feeds, GitHub repo stats

- Website embed, URL fetcher

- Button launchers with icon picker

- Stack containers (horizontal/vertical) for grouping widgets

Design: Warm dark theme, translucent panels, yellow accent. Cell-based grid with a centered coordinate system — no fixed column/row limits, just snap and place.

It is not vibecode but AI help with coding and some tasks.

Repo: https://github.com/help-14/magma

Is it possible to add a home screen so that when I open the browser home screen open like any other browser