Index - Self-hosted Dashboard

Source: /Users/nitishchauhan/Downloads/Self-hosted Dashboard.md Type: product-spec Status: indexed

1. Recurring keywords / key ideas

• Homepage dashboard (gethomepage)
• VPS command center / hyper-visual
• Docker Compose and docker.sock metrics
• CPU, RAM, disk widgets (Glances)
• Uptime Kuma, Stirling-PDF, Audiobookshelf
• settings.yaml / services.yaml / bookmarks.yaml
• Custom New Tab URL browser extension
• Reverse proxy / custom domain suggestion
• Cursor-driven VPS execution
• Live container status and bookmarks grid

2. Core / novel / atypical ideas

• Bypass basic dashboards; deploy Homepage as production-grade dense command center wired to Docker
• Zero-friction local metrics via mounting /var/run/docker.sock into Homepage
• Three-file visual config pattern: settings, services grid, bookmarks
• Daily motivation loop: set dashboard as browser new-tab so infrastructure appears on every Ctrl+T
• Suggested next hardening: Nginx Proxy Manager for domain instead of raw IP
• Blueprint framed as copy-paste instructions for Cursor on the VPS terminal

3. Context and flow

The document gives Nitish Chauhan a concrete Cursor-executable blueprint for a self-hosted Homepage dashboard on a VPS. It shows architecture ASCII, docker-compose, YAML layouts for system widgets and app links (Uptime Kuma, Stirling PDF, Audiobookshelf), bookmarks for learning feeds, bring-up via docker compose up -d, then locks the dashboard into browser new-tab habit. It closes by offering reverse-proxy domain polishing as an optional follow-on.

4. Publishing angles

• Mode: Experiential series
• Why: It is a personal infrastructure how-to and habit design note, not a research claim.
• Angles:
  • Build a VPS command center with Homepage + Docker sock metrics
  • Capture-first ops UI: services.yaml as living map of your stack
  • Make infrastructure unavoidable by hijacking the browser new tab
  • When to add reverse proxy / domain polish after the dashboard works