Arguably the Prettiest Selfhosting Services Dashboard
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The HN community discusses HostMonk, a self-hosting services dashboard, with comments focusing on its aesthetics and functionality, as well as comparisons to other self-hosting platforms like Yunohost.
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The font in the thumbnail is impossible to read on tablet and contains no information at all that I can tell. What’s this thing do? And why do you think it’s the prettiest?
But yeah this is pretty nice looking. Its be neat for more of these selfhosting platforms to be able to better speak to their architecture & philosophy: just digging in and looking at examples of how they bundle / config their apps is great, but something above the source level as an intro would be lovely. These platforms should be more alluring to folks a couple steps beyond simple idealized clueless selfhosting operator, round sphere man.