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Confusing title since "dashboard" appears nowhere on the page. Better description might be "An open-source dynamic link-in-bio" (AKA Linktree alternative)

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I couldn't figure out what it was from the README, I am surprised it made the homepage of HN. If the author reads this, I suggest updating the README and resubmitting it to HN sometime in the future.

Edit: The app website explains it much better: https://glow.as/

> An open-source dynamic link-in-bio

FWIW, I understand what a "Dashboard" means, never heard of a "link-in-bio" before. From the website, it seems to be something like an "About" page? But dynamic I guess.

To me, "Dashboard" means something like "live visualizations for monitoring data that changes frequently".

Link-in-bio comes from social platforms where you're allowed 1 url in your profile but need to show many links (also in situations where some of the links may go to content that could get you banned if placed on site ie OF).

I'm not sure of the value of making it more than it needs to be.

And posts with links in them are punished in different ways, like getting suppressed in algorithmic feeds. So instead of just linking to a thing directly people are left with mentioning “link in bio”.

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