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by shaky-carrousel 1508 days ago
Hah, I don't want to remember either. I have 18 services, so it's nice to have a catalog of what I have installed.
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I don't suppose either of you have considered, you know, bookmarks in your browser ;)? And for tons of services a dashboard wouldn't be my first choice for cataloging/planning anyway, there are other tools for more or less automated planning/deployment/herding. One still often needs to actually know some addresses too just to make use of services in non-web contexts, and a way to have things not break if IPs need to be adjusted. And you still need some way to make sure everything is talking securely. More than one way to do that too but CAs scale pretty well and have decent general support even amongst end devices.

But for a homelab whatever one wants ultimately is fine, whole point is to experiment after all!

> I don't suppose either of you have considered, you know, bookmarks in your browser ?

One commenter mentioned sharing some apps with other people, so browser bookmarks may not be the best solution.

I've actually been looking into self-hosted bookmark managers yesterday, some of which can handle sharing. These may work.

My use case is somewhat similar, in that I sometimes use PCs different from my main one, and they also use different browsers. But I haven't found anything that I felt like taking for a spin.

Bookmarks don't show me the status of the apps. I also use multiple browsers in multiple devices so my bookmarks are... scattered. Very fault tolerant, because they exist in multiple locations in different forms. That's something I have to centralize. Someday.