r/startpages • u/jin98 • Nov 28 '25
Creation Project Hestia - A grid-based, modular dashboard for your homelab
It all started when I wanted to have a dashboard for my homelab setup but available ones simply use too much resources or don't have any features that I want. I needed to have something where I can play around with ideas and with my current server setup.
And thus Project Hestia was born.
It's a grid-based, modular startpage / dashboard can be organized any way you want. With the built-in "apps", you can have links, image frames, notes, and some eye candy displayed on the canvas. It features an edit mode where you can drag and drop your apps to organize, add new ones, configure them, and delete them from the dashboard. More customizing features are shown on the video!
Project Hestia is written entirely in HTML, JS, and CSS. Outside of external API's, Project Hestia runs entirely on the browser. Configs are saved locally in the browser's memory and may be imported and exported. You can really just clone the repo on your device, find and open the HTML, and that's it!
Aside from the basic apps, It also has several homelab integrations for services such as Deluge, Jellyfin, Glances, and Pi-hole. With Hestia's app framework, the class based system allows the user to create any app they want. Simply follow the guide on the Github page or see how the built-in apps work.
Performance-wise, Microsoft Edge's Lighthouse rated the default page at 97. But I think the perceived performance will depend if you have lots of apps on your dashboard. The attached preview loads at ~700ms. Hosting this on my homelab setup via Nginx only uses ~0.01-0.03% of CPU and ~5MB of RAM
Check out the live demo! (Note that the homelab integrations will only populate if you have it hosted)
Future plans include a search bar feature, more apps, and other API integrations (no promises tho haha).
As this is a personal project, there might be bugs that I haven't seen yet or forgot to test and fix. I'd appreciate your understanding if you encounter problems while using this with your setup. Some feedback and reports would be helpful! Make sure to report them on the github page.
Please let me know what you think. Thanks!
