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

14 points by borplk 10y ago ↗ HN

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.

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pizza 10y ago ↗

geth/ethminer

pc86 10y ago ↗

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.

moehm 10y ago ↗

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.

mesozoic 10y ago ↗

Docker containers

aaroninsf 10y ago ↗

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.

gpmcadam 10y ago ↗

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

Coxa 10y ago ↗

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.

mahmoudimus 10y ago ↗

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

[deleted] 10y ago ↗

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J_Darnley 10y ago ↗

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.