What is glance?

Glance gives you a single, customizable web page that pulls together all the stuff you check throughout the day, RSS feeds, Reddit posts, Hacker News, YouTube channel uploads, Twitch streams, weather, stock prices, and more. Instead of opening a dozen tabs or apps, you load one dashboard and see everything at once. You set up the dashboard by writing a configuration file where you list which widgets you want and how they should be arranged. You can create multiple pages or tabs, choose different column layouts, and tweak options for each widget, for example, which RSS feeds to include, which subreddits to follow, or which stock symbols to track. There's a theme system with prebuilt options, and you can add your own custom CSS if you want full control over the look. The project also supports building your own widgets if the built-in ones don't cover your needs, through options like embedding external content or fetching data from custom APIs. This is built for people who already self-host software, meaning they run applications on their own server or machine rather than using a cloud service. A typical user might be someone who already runs tools like Pi-hole or a home media server and wants a personal start page that aggregates their information sources. You can install it via Docker (a common way to package and run self-hosted apps) or as a standalone binary on Linux, Windows, or macOS. A few things stand out about how it's built. The app is written in Go and ships as a single file under 20 megabytes, which keeps it lightweight on memory and fast to start. Pages typically load in about a second. It does not continuously poll for updates in the background, information is fetched when you load the page and then cached for a configurable period, so a manual refresh is needed to see new content. The interface is optimized for mobile, and the project explicitly avoids heavy JavaScript frameworks, sticking to minimal vanilla JS.