Boardy

Hey everyone 👋 I’m super excited to announce the release of Boardy, an app that let’s everyone create beautiful dashboards without having to write a single line of code. When the pandemic first started, I wrote a small home dashboard that I ran on a Raspberry Pi in my living room. It was a fun little side project that was more silly than useful. Some of the info it showed was how many times either my wife or I had made coffee for each other so we always know whose turn it was (and of course, I didn’t manipulate the score one bit). While I had a lot of fun writing it, it was still a ton of work. There are a lot of open source tools and packages out there that make creating dashboards significantly easier, but you still actually have to *do* it. Hooking up all sorts of external data sources, refreshing the data in regular intervals, pushing new data to the dashboard without having to refresh the page every time, deploying it all... all so you can display a few colorful boxes on a screen! So I had the idea of creating this tool that takes care of all the annoying stuff about creating dashboards. You simply pick and choose what data you want displayed and arrange it in whatever order you want. Boardy takes care of the rest. For the more programmatically inclined among you, there’s also an API that let’s you push HTML to a module. So even if we don’t currently provide a first-party module for something (which is going to happen since we only just launched), you can still display whatever data you want. I do plan on extending the API in the future but it’s a nice escape hatch to get started. All that being said, I’m relying on actual user feedback to know which modules or third-party app integrations I should build next. So, even if you don’t end up using the app, I’d be happy to hear any and all suggestions you might have! Either post a comment on PH or send me an mail at kai@boardy.app. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts! Kai

Ah, looks so organized

Looks really good. Congrats on the launch. Do you think I ll be able to get data from bigquery and make a dashboard?

Boardy looks like a well-done homage to the days of browser launch pages (does anyone remember Netvibes), where you could have all your relevant information in one single page, in the form of many, tiny widgets. I have no idea why this trend suddenly waned in popularity around 2010, but with all the information around us, I can totally see it coming back. I am really excited about this app, and I will most definitely give it a try. @warsh33p good job!

Kai produced a lot of high-quality well though out open source software in the past - hundreds of businesses rely on it already. A product like Boardy is natural step to bring value to a broader broader audience. Similar products exist on the market, but this is not just a cheap copy cat.

Very cool product... thank you so much for creating this!

I love dashboards and having adjustable options is just the next step into the future. Helps you prepare for the day, stay on top of things, and adjust to whatever you personally need. Great work!