kit·intermediate·updated 2026-07-13

PulseDash – Analytics Dashboard Kit

Every link, tool, and bookmark. One dashboard, self-hosted.

Next.jsPocketBaseTailwind CSS

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.

Install

~60 seconds

terminal

bash

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

~/ what's inside

Already wired, so you can skip to 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.

~/ the stack behind it

Every dependency has a reason.

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.

~/ environment

Here's every env var, labeled.

Copy to .env.local. The included first-run script refuses to boot if any of them are missing — you'll know immediately.

.env.example

dotenv

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

~/ walkthrough

Zero to first deploy.

This is the exact sequence we'd run from a blank directory. Steps are reproducible — if one fails, we want to know.

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
```

~/ known gotchas

The stuff that ate our afternoons.

Things we'd have wanted a heads-up on. Logged as we hit them.

!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.

when not

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.

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