Flame

A start page for everything you run: services and bookmarks on one wall.

about €1.67 / month Infrastructure 6,669 stars on GitHub Latest commit on April 25, 2026

What Flame does

Flame gathers the addresses you need every day on one page: services at the top, bookmarks below, a search box above.

Meant as your browser start page — instead of a bookmarks bar and half-forgotten port numbers.

  • Tiles for services and bookmarks
  • A search box wired to several search engines
  • Weather for your location
  • Your own colours, light and dark

Good to know before the first start. Flame starts with an empty wall. You add services and bookmarks yourself — there is no preset selection to clear away first.

Flame instead of start.me

What you get out of it

  • A page that shows only what you put on it
  • Your own colours, light and dark
  • Runs on the smallest size
start.me and Podlessstart.meOn Podless
Where the data livesstart.meOn the provider’s serversOn PodlessIn your own instance in the EU
Source codestart.meNot open to readOn PodlessOpen, you can read what runs
Ads and profilingstart.mePer the provider’s termsOn PodlessNone
Your own domainstart.meUsually not offeredOn PodlessIncluded, certificate too
Getting out againstart.meAs far as the provider allowsOn PodlessSFTP, database, backups to your storage
If it gets shut downstart.meYou have to moveOn PodlessYou decide when you leave

Additional information

Replaces
start.me, Homer, Heimdall, Browser bookmarks bar
Recommended size
0.25 cores · 0.5 GB RAM · 5 GB Storage
Estimated per month
€1.67 At the recommended size, running around the clock. Stop the app and CPU and RAM stop costing.

Common questions

At the recommended size (0.25 cores · 0.5 GB RAM · 5 GB Storage) about €1.67 a month, billed by the hour. Stop Flame and you only pay for storage.

Goes well with

  • Beszel Infrastructure· Instead of Datadog about €1.67 / month

    Lightweight server monitoring: CPU, memory and disk over time, with alerts.

  • Checkmate Infrastructure· Instead of UptimeRobot about €4.00 / month

    Uptime monitoring with a status page: response times, history and alerts when something is down.

Your own Flame, in under a minute.