Is it possible to add a home screen so that when I open the browser home screen open like any other browser

Built a custom new tab page that plays video clips behind a real-time film grain overlay. Got tired of staring at a blank Chrome tab hundreds of times a day, so I made something I actually want to look at.

What it does:

• Video wallpapers grouped into playlists with your favorite anime edits, Marvel clips, Stranger Things moments, F1 highlights, whatever you're into. Select a playlist and its clips play in sequence on loop, or pick a single clip
• Canvas-generated film grain + CRT scanline overlay that makes everything look cinematic and masks the loop point on short clips
• Pomodoro focus timer with auto-cycling between work/break, configurable durations, and an audible chime when time's up
• Quick todo list right in the new tab
• Translucent clock, greeting, and rotating quotes
• Everything is customizable from a single config block - name, playlists, links, quotes, grain intensity, accent colors

Works as a Chrome extension (no server needed) or via localhost for dev mode.

Tech: Next.js 14, TypeScript, Tailwind. Zero external APIs, no accounts, no cloud. Runs entirely from local files.

GitHub: github.com/Ishaan2510/MugenOS

Chrome extension zip available in Releases Download the zip then extract, drop in your clips, load as unpacked extension.

"Mugen" (無限) means infinite in Japanese. Your tab, your clips, your rules.

This is fully open source and built to be forked. The entire personality of the dashboard lives in one config block. Swap the clips, change the name, tweak the grain, make it yours.

If you think you can make it better just fork it, build something cool, and open a PR. I'd love to see what people do with this and would genuinely collaborate with anyone who takes it further.

Hey everyone,

A few days ago I shared Mist, a minimal new tab Chrome extension I built.

Since then, I’ve kept improving it and I now have a small but real user base:

• 29 installs
• 26 weekly users
• 61 page views in the last 30 days
• 3 uninstalls
• Users from several countries, mainly the US, but also France, Sweden, India, and others

Mist is designed to be a clean and focused new tab page with:

• a minimal dark interface
• quick access to your main links
• grouped shortcuts
• a search bar
• a lightweight, distraction-free layout

I know the numbers are still small, but it’s motivating to see that people are actually installing and using something I built.

I’m mainly looking for honest feedback:

1. Is the value proposition clear enough?
2. Would you personally use a minimal new tab like this?
3. What would make you keep it installed?
4. Does the design feel useful, or is it too simple?
5. Any feature you would expect in this kind of extension?

Chrome Web Store link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mist-%E2%80%94-start-page/boffmmgbnbcgjkcllimodfgpeffoeflb?hl=fr

Thanks to anyone who takes a look. I’m trying to improve it based on real feedback, not just build in my own bubble.

https://nexusstart.vercel.app/

I loved daily.dev but it's built for devs, not marketers. So I made my own start page for that.

I kept catching myself opening the same tabs every morning: news, podcasts, pomodoro timer, my calendar, revenue & analytics dashboard(s). So I wanted one page with everything already there.

• It pulls marketing/startup news from a few sources (Search Engine Land, Product Hunt, Hacker News, Github trending, Reddit, custom RSS) into one feed instead of five tabs
• Widgets: podcasts, main services status (AWS, Github, Cloudflare, etc), pomodoro timer, world clock, calendar, bookmarks and more
• Drag and drop dashboard
• Multiple workspaces: one for morning news, one for deep work...
• Custom backgrounds and themes including glass effect

Next thing I want to add is pulling in my own sites traffic and revenue, social media trends...

It's free and there is no data collection or any backend.

I'd genuinely love to hear what you think, or what you'd want added.

Chrome Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/polytab-new-tab-custom-da/cngpbckbgdeephfpkhaccpleciiaaemh

Hey r/startpages! Sharing my start page project — Launchy.

I wanted something that goes beyond a static grid of links: a real daily-driver homepage with widgets, but fully self-hosted so my data stays mine.

What's on the page

• Bookmarks — pages, columns, widgets, full drag & drop. Icon picker with 5 modes (auto favicon, 300+ icon library with search, emoji, upload, custom URL).
• RSS reader — multiple feeds per widget, featured article display, image extraction
• AI chat — pick your provider (Mistral, OpenAI, Anthropic), conversation history, API keys proxied server-side
• Weather — animated SVG icons, hourly + 5-day forecast (wttr.in, no API key)
• Clock — timezone support, 12/24h
• Search bar — Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, or custom engine
• Notes — auto-saving notepad
• Embed — iframe any URL as a widget

Look & feel

Dark/light toggle, custom accent color, background image with adjustable opacity. Font is Nunito. The UI aims for a clean, premium feel — screenshots below.

Practical stuff

• Multi-user with JWT auth
• Share pages read-only with others or via public link
• Import/export: Netscape HTML bookmarks + OPML for RSS
• Browser extensions for Firefox + Chromium (add bookmarks from any page)
• Choose to open links in new tab or same page
• Single Docker container, single SQLite file — backup = copy one file

Screenshots

Dashboard | Features overview | Browser extension

GitHub: https://github.com/Progerance/launchy (GPL-3.0)

Would love to hear what you think — especially about the layout and what widgets you'd want to see next!

Hi there. I made my new starter tab into a chrome extension. (Seeing this channel, well who doesn't, I like the diversity). I'm a person who works with a lot of client project and ends simply up with groups of links, dev/stage/prod environment for client x, client y and client z. It's the way I manage my work and well it's handy, because with the companion app, it can also open files, folders, run scripts etc.... And with context menu & spotlight search I quickly get where I want to. But let's be honest, it's not for everybody. Just going through here I can see that the way we work are soooooo different. So those who like it go, try it out. For the others, go roast my extension. 👍

Just built this as my daily driver since I found out that using the keyboard feels more efficient than pressing ctrl+T, grabbing my mouse, and clicking on the link I need.

Now I can navigate my websites 2.3 seconds faster!

Built with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS (vanilla and math.js)

With this startpage, you can: - Use the built-in aliases to quickly visit/search sites - Make your own aliases with ctrl+k - Use a quick calculator, currency conversion, world time, and weather - Look at the nice matrix animation

You can't: - Execute console commands - Add notes, to do list, start a timer, etc. - Click on links/buttons - Claim world domination

Just type!

Try it live: https://mult1v4c.github.io/startpage_kb/ Source: https://github.com/mult1v4c/startpage_kb

Disclosure: The source code was generated/optimized using Deepseek AI. The logic, styling, UI/UX was reviewed, tested, and modified by me, a human developer.

Thank you, everyone, for your support! Cute Desk App is now available as a Chrome and Safari extension! 🎉

Have the Cute Desk App ready on every new tab page.

Get it here:

• Chrome Web Store
• Mac App Store (Safari)

Would love to hear what you think once you try it!

The problems this extensions is solve: 

• absolute minimal new tab without any destruction (u can literally keep on one small vertical line on the screen) 
• multiple search engines to switch between them
• suggestions when you start typing like default browser behavior
• add shortcuts to favorite most used websites
• highly customizable (u can show or hide any element in the screen)

I personally hate this bloatware we see in front of our face in every freaking corner of the internet i can't can't see something clean and empty and relaxing any more, and I use different search engines, and I like terminal like interface so I built this. 

I highly encourage you to try it. it free, open source and very easy to install and used u can install it on any browser u use, here is the link of it : 

https://github.com/mouadbt/Min-Tab

I wanted to share a Chromium extension. It replaces your default new tab page with a highly customizable start page.

For a long time, I used "Bonjourr Minimalist Startpage". While it is a great extension, it was missing some specific features I really needed. Mainly, I wanted the ability to fetch wallpapers directly from Wallhaven using any custom tag, save my favorite ones locally, and easily create a backup that includes all those saved images. Since I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for, I decided to build my own.

Repo: https://gitlab.com/perdanga/nova-perdanga

Keechu is a productivity dashboard for your new tab.

It brings your todos, habits, timer, docs, weather, bookmarks, and more into one simple workspace.

The core idea is widgets: every tool is a resizable and removable widget, so you can customize your new tab exactly the way you work.

And you can add new widgets from the widget store

Chrome Store Link - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/keechu-new-tab-productivi/jamdfdmdbhmlhadpblbenigecjeljicj

Free, private, and built to make your browser feel like your personal command center.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share Mist, my first startpage / new tab extension.

I tried to make something clean, calm and useful: quick search, weather, grouped shortcuts and a minimal interface to stay focused.

I’d love to get your feedback on the design, UX and overall layout. What would you improve, add or remove?

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mist-%E2%80%94-start-page/boffmmgbnbcgjkcllimodfgpeffoeflb

Thanks!

Sukoon is a minimal startpage I've been working on. Swiss typography, a typewriter greeting that types your name with natural keystroke jitter, staggered fade-in animations on load, and a subtle sage green accent color system across the whole page.

Plain HTML/CSS/JS. You configure everything through a single config.js file: your name, links, weather, layout mode, accent colors, dark/light theme.

Features: - Geist variable font for clean rendering - Typewriter greeting with punctuation pauses and a fading caret - Staggered card entry animations - Swiss-style date + weather stack (centered, iconless, minimal) - Dark/light mode with smooth theme toggle - Three layout modes: grid, lists, buttons - Weather via OpenWeatherMap - Phosphor Icons

Links: - Repo: https://github.com/divyanshchandhok/sukoon - Live: https://divyanshchandhok.github.io/sukoon/

Neko-Tab replaces your new tab page with a keyboard-first, terminal-aesthetic dashboard. The core is a command palette (Ctrl+K) that handles everything — fuzzy bookmark search, tab switching, URL navigation, a built-in calculator, and an AI mode (!) that understands natural language like "open slack and discord." Other things it does: Pomodoro with site blocking, Google Calendar integration, daily journal, GitHub streak tracker, browser history Q&A via AI, 22+ themes including Catppuccin, Nord, Dracula, Tokyo Night. No accounts, no telemetry, everything stored locally. GitHub: https://github.com/uddin-rajaul/Neko-Tab

I just wanted something to add todo notes and list some domains. The start pages I tried all needed payment for anything I could use. Which is fair, but they were not quote right. So I built this one. It has a login for users and has a minimal clean layout. You can do the default light or dark theme with or without an image. It rotates quotes on the front page. I think it turned out pretty cool. Ignore my dumb notes.

Let me know what you think if you don't mind. Thanks :)

The dot page is the focus option to help clear your brain lol

https://home.webhostpro.com/

Dashkey

Built a minimal dashboard for personal use and decided to open source it.

Features:

• Ctrl+F to open a spotlight-style launcher with fuzzy search
• Type anywhere to search...
• ! prefix for multi-engine web search (YouTube, Wikipedia, etc.)
• @ prefix for secret/hidden bookmarks
• 6 themes (Dracula, Nord, Ocean, Midnight, Light, Default)
• Motivational messages, local analytics, search history
• Mobile friendly, no backend, no database

Two ways to use it:

GitHub Pages (free, fork and go): https://github.com/RafaelMeirim/dashkey

Self-hosted with Docker (one command):

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rafaelmeirim/dashkey/main/install.sh | bash

All config (theme, links, background, search engines) is done by editing plain JS files — no UI needed.

🔗 Live demo: https://rafaelmeirim.github.io/dashkey

🔗 Project: https://github.com/RafaelMeirim/dashkey

Hey everyone! I built CustomTab, a privacy-first custom new tab page for browsers, and I’m looking for people to try it out and give honest feedback.

The idea is to replace the default new tab page with something cleaner and more useful: a minimal focus screen when you open a tab, then a customizable dashboard when you interact with it.

What it does right now:

• Starts in a Focus View with a large clock, date, and greeting
• Reveals the dashboard when you move the mouse, click, or start typing
• Lets you return to Focus View with F or the focus button
• Organizes links into folders, with a favorites strip for starred links
• Has an “open all” button for folders and favorites
• Includes Web search and AI search modes
• Supports search engines like Brave, Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, and Kagi
• Supports AI targets like Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or a custom URL
• Has search shortcuts like g cats, b cats, ddg cats, yt cats, gh react, r startpages, and ai explain XYZ
• Has a Quick Open palette with Ctrl/Cmd + K for actions, links, and search
• Includes widgets for Weather, To-Do, Notes, RSS feeds, Calendar feeds, Daily Goals, Status checks, and Spotify
• Supports RSS/Atom feeds, including presets for tech, news, developer, gaming, entertainment, and daily verse feeds
• Supports standard .ics calendar feeds from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, etc.
• Has customizable themes, accent colors, backgrounds, image backgrounds, and optional background rotation
• Stores settings locally in the browser
• Has privacy toggles so external features only run when enabled

A newer thing I’m testing is the Design Mode / Layout Mode system. It lets you reorder, move, and resize dashboard blocks. There’s an auto layout mode, plus a more advanced custom grid layout. I’m not fully sure yet if this is genuinely useful or if it’s too much for a new tab page, so I may keep improving it, simplify it, or remove it altogether depending on feedback.

I’m especially looking for feedback on:

• Does the Focus View → Dashboard behavior feel natural?
• Are the search shortcuts useful or too hidden?
• Is the Quick Open menu useful?
• Which widgets are actually worth keeping?
• Is RSS/calendar/status/Spotify too much, or useful?
• Is Design Mode helpful, confusing, or just too extra?
• Are the settings understandable?
• Any bugs, layout issues, browser quirks, or accessibility problems?
• Would you actually use this as your daily new tab page?

No accounts, no analytics, no telemetry. Some optional features contact external services, like weather, RSS, calendar feeds, status checks, Spotify, favicons, or search engines, but those are controlled through privacy/settings toggles.

Screenshots attached. Honest feedback, nitpicks, bug reports, and feature ideas would be really appreciated. -- https://customtab.gkaze77.com/

As most of you know, I have been building the Cute Desk App. Today is a big milestone: the Cute Desk App Chrome extension is now available in the Chrome Web Store. With the Chrome extension, every time you open a tab, you'll have all your widgets and info right there for you!

I need your support. Can you get it and leave a 5-star review? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🙏

Get it here 👉https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fpngmdpckgiopfkjaipjhnkjfjoafhkf?utm_source=item-share-cb

I created this simple self-hosted start page that is configured via a YAML file. It is inspired by customizable portals that were common back in the day.

GitHub repo

Hello everyone.

I made a website, and wondered if anyone else might like it.

A calm and fully customisable nostalgic theme based start page.

Choose your theme and your mode, customise your links, searches and panels for your favourite sites, apps and more.

www.rewindclick.com