Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
I'm proud to share the e-paper family dashboard I've been building over the past decade. I think you might find it interesting. It's open source: https://github.com/joelhawksley/timeframe.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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I love the looks and UX of the Google calendar. But I wanted to have a version I could use more freely in my own projects, still looking similar to the one from Google.
2024 · schedule-x.dev · its alternatives →
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The dynamic personal homepage builder. Contribute to trylinky/linky development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source reporting platform to build and share live dashboards from APIs, SQL and NoSQL databases, with powerful AI assistant, scheduling, and embeddable charts 📈📊 - chartbrew/chartbrew
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Plot your projects on a timeline for free
2020 · portfoleon.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I did this project over the Labor Day weekend. My family runs off our shared Google Calendar. This project was to use a ESP32 and three-color e-ink display to create a wall-mounted daily updated calendar, weather and news dashboard for us to coordinate our lives.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple, beautiful dashboard reporting for teams & agencies
2018 · datadeck.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · rahulrav.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've just published my small home dashboard project on Github. Hope you like it too and perhaps find it useful as a reference for similar ideas. Overall I'm very happy with the LilyGo e-ink device and I'll probably add a bunch of other features in the future.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This dashboard is a personal project I've developed to visualize every wind farm's energy production across Ireland. I'm trying to break into software development/data analytics sector and I wanted to build a project to practice my coding. I wanted to build a novel project rather than following along to a basic YouTube video project and not really learn anything. I'm interested in the renewable energy sector and after browsing the web noticed there isn't any public data on real time wind energy production in Ireland. I took the task onto myself to attempt to build a dashboard that…
2024 · irelandwinddashboard.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! My name is Rémy and I recently published an astronomy dashboard where everything is open source: the code of the website, the framework it is based on and the library that computes astronomical data. For the last few years, I have been developing the Ruby library Astronoby (https://github.com/rhannequin/astronoby) with as much dedication and perseverance I could while I don't have any scientific academic background. My end goal was to use this library and build a website that not only provides as much data as possible, but let anyone access and understand how it…
Nov 2025 · its alternatives →
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2014 · timelinee.com · its alternatives →
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I made a desktop e paper display to show my calendar and to-do list to help keep me organized in college. Full source code available here: https://github.com/jaeheonshim/inky-dashboard The display is only awoken from deep sleep mode every 30 minutes to update the information, allowing the frame to be fully battery powered. You can link your Todoist for the to-do items on the left, and you can link any calendar in iCal format (Google Calendar, Outlook, etc.) for the calendar on the right. The code can be fully customized to display just the calendar, just the to-do list,…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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To help my future self, I decided to build a repository in which I can quickly deploy an end-to-end modern analytics pipeline, from ingestion to fast analytics and business dashboards, including data exploration, time-series forecasting, and monitoring of the stack. Of course, all the components are open source, and you can use this template as a stepping stone for your near-realtime streaming analytics. What's the inspiration? I’ve been working with streaming analytics for a long time. I’ve done not-too-stale analytics with a RDBMs incremental query and a spreadsheet, gone over the…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, This is my new project (https://www.timepike.com/) which tries to solve basic problem of most small agencies: tracking working hours and holidays of employees and generating invoices for clients. I know that there are many similar solutions out there. Still, I haven't found one solving this problem in really clean, intuitive and super helpful way (for employer as much as for employees). That's why I decided to build one. Any feedback is really highly appreciated! Cheers, Wiktor
2017 · its alternatives →
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Simple, completely free, no signup or email collection
2019 · everhour.com · its alternatives →
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Track your time live and free, use with you fav issue tool
2019 · wobbly.me · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, https://companies.bx.tc My colleague and I put together this tool for easily searching UK company data. We run a few server side batches daily to extract data from various government sources before linking it all together in (what is now) a fairly large database. We're also using this project as a way to test out a new JS UI library we built (similar to Vue, but a bit faster) to see how it stands up in a real project. We'd love to hear your feedback and any ideas you have for how we can improve the dashboard! Thanks :)
2020 · its alternatives →
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http://www.timeclover.com We made a time tracking tool to track hobbies and goals. No billable hours or other enterprise nonsense, just simplicity and what we feel are great graphs and visualizations of how you spend your time. I'm a big fan of seinfeld's method and this is supposed to take it a step further. Instead of planning activities, guilt yourself into not ruining your beautiful history. We’re still expanding the idea, and would love some feedback. Unfortunately everything is somewhat empty until you have tracked for a couple of days, so here is my public profile view to give you an…
2011 · timeclover.com · its alternatives →
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I built this as a side project because I found existing family tree tools either too bloated or too manual—I spent more time dragging boxes and aligning lines than actually mapping my family history. My goal was to make it instant: you just add the names, and the auto-layout engine handles the hierarchy and spacing automatically. It runs entirely in the browser and exports high-res PNG/JPGs. Would love feedback on the layout logic (especially for complex families) and the overall UI flow. Happy to answer any questions!
Mar 2026 · familytreeeasy.com · its alternatives →
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OpBoard▲7I’m a financial analyst, and for years I managed our family budget in a massive Excel sheet. I loved the control, but it eventually became an "unpaid second job" of fixing broken CSV formats and patching formulas. The real problem: The spreadsheet was a barrier, not a bridge. It didn’t help me have better money conversations at home. Telling my wife “Dining is high” wasn't helpful; we needed to see where we were overspending (e.g., that one specific cafe vs. grocery runs) without me having to act as a "human pivot table" every Sunday night. I didn't want an app that required our bank…
Feb 2026 · opboard.io · its alternatives →
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A few years ago, I started managing my finances using Google Sheets. It worked fine for a while, but then I hit some limitations. As my financial planning needs grew more complex, I found myself struggling with tracking assets and forecasting future financial scenarios. Thus, I started to work in my spare time on building FinancialAha: https://www.financialaha.com - a financial planning app designed to do everything my spreadsheets couldn’t. It is completely free and I intend to add some paid features later on as listed on the pricing page, but I want to keep it free for people…
2024 · its alternatives →
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