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Ask HN: What software do you use that you wish it had a pretty web dashboard?

14 pointsborplk9 comments

I'd like to create a shiny web-based admin/interface/gui for a software that is lacking it as a side project.

Is there something that you use or have to use that makes you wish it had a web UI available?

I'm thinking along the lines of developer-oriented or DevOps-related pieces of software that sit in the background and work nicely but lack something to let you be more proactive and explore things around rather than running a specific command on the command line and so on.

For example a GUI for Redis or Beanstalkd can be highlighted as examples (I know they exist).

My aim is to do this nicely for a niche software and hopefully make a little side income with a basic commercial licensing.

Interested to hear your thoughts.

I have been working in such a thing for a openvpn server. (https://github.com/AuspeXeu/openvpn-status) but it's fast from feature complete. one could think of actually storing a history, adding capabilities to generate client configurations over the web interface etc.

Seconded. I put a comment on OpenVPN but deleted it to support this.

Kafka.

Disclosure: I haven't looked since I last built something using Kafka six months ago, but doing a small-scale project I found it limiting that there was no straightforward, UI-style view into the state of my various servers, topics, etc.

https://github.com/claudemamo/kafka-web-console ?

Transmission. https://www.transmissionbt.com/

It already has a web interface but there are a few things I would like to add/change. But now I see that it isn't what you're looking for.

Nothing that I use day-to-day comes to mind for your desired use case, however I did want to say I think this is a great idea, and provided you don't run into licensing or other legal issues, on the surface at least it has the possibility to result in some revenue for you.

I thought about one for systemd. I guess it would look similar to monit though. Rsyslog would be interesting too, but it already has loganalyzer.

Docker containers

geth/ethminer

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