PulseDash – Analytics Dashboard Kit

A personal and team dashboard that replaces scattered browser bookmarks — organize resources into collections, arrange a widget grid, jump to anything with Ctrl+K, and pull in an RSS reader, all backed by your own PocketBase instance.

Stack

• Next.js — React frontend and API routes for the dashboard UI and Ctrl+K search.
• PocketBase — Single-binary backend — SQLite storage, auth, and a real-time API with nothing extra to deploy.
• Tailwind CSS — Utility-first styling for the widget grid, collections, and theming/wallpapers.
• Node.js jobs service — Separate background process that fetches RSS feeds and runs scheduled monitoring.

Features

• Customizable widget dashboard — Arrange bookmarks, collections, and tools into a widget grid you rearrange to match how you actually work.
• Collections & resource organization — Group links and tools into collections instead of drowning in browser bookmarks. Backed by PocketBase/SQLite.
• Built-in authentication — PocketBase-backed accounts and access control, so team dashboards stay private.
• Self-hosted, single PocketBase binary — No managed backend to pay for — PocketBase runs as one executable alongside the app and jobs service.

Install

git clone https://github.com/yashthakur1/dash.git pulsedash
cd pulsedash
npm install

Environment

NEXT_PUBLIC_PB_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8090
NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3000

Walkthrough

1. Set up PocketBase (backend)

Download the PocketBase v0.30.4 executable for your OS into the pocketbase/ directory, then run migrations and start the server — it serves the API on http://127.0.0.1:8090.

./pocketbase migrate --dir ./pb_data --migrationsDir ./pocketbase/pb_migrations
./pocketbase serve --dir ./pb_data --migrationsDir ./pocketbase/pb_migrations

2. Start the jobs service

In a separate terminal, install and run the background jobs service that handles RSS fetching and monitoring.

cd jobs
npm install
npm run dev

3. Configure and run the Next.js app

Back in the repo root, install dependencies, add a .env.local pointing at your PocketBase instance, and start the dev server.

npm install
npm run dev

Gotchas

• All three processes — PocketBase, the jobs service, and Next.js — need to be running at once, or RSS/monitoring silently stops updating even though the dashboard still loads.
• Run PocketBase migrate before serve on a fresh pb_data directory, or the app fails to boot with a missing-schema error.
• Two-factor auth ships via speakeasy — back up your PocketBase pb_data volume before rotating secrets or enabling it for a team.

Why not just build it yourself?

If you just need one shared bookmarks list, this is more than you need — the collections, widgets, and RSS layer add real setup overhead (three processes to run). This kit is for people who want one page that replaces ten browser tabs.

Links

GitHub

License: Not specified — the source repo ships no LICENSE file. Confirm terms with the author before redistributing.