trydashi.app• 4d ago• 1 min read
Show HN: Dashi – a 214KB Chrome new tab dashboard with no servers or analyticsI built out this dashboard for my own use since I was getting sick and tired of constantly checking multiple apps when all I really need is a quick glance. As more and more use-cases sprung up, I kept adding new features and it grew to what it is now. I find it very useful and thought I should share it.dashi is a widget dashboard on your new tab. Currently 17 widgets... notes, to-dos, history, weather, world clocks, countdowns, pomodoro, and much more. Drag wherever you want across as many pages as you like, with a separate layout remembered for each screen size you use.Three things I actually cared about:Size. The whole extension is 560KB unpacked, ~240KB compressed. Opening a new tab runs about 87KB of JS and 31KB of CSS, uncompressed. Every widget is its own lazy chunk, 69 of them, so a board with three tiles doesn't pay for the other fourteen. Preact instead of React did most of that work... React was around 90% of the initial bundle.Privacy. No account, no backend, no analytics, n