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Attendr – lightweight self-hosted staff presence dashboard

Attendr – lightweight self-hosted staff presence dashboard

by ScottHudson·Mar 6, 2026·1 point·1 comment
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AI Analysis

●●SolidShip ItNiche Gem

Hyper-focused on-prem dashboard already running in production inside government org.

Strengths
  • •Proven in production at scale (government deployment), not vaporware
  • •Solves a real, recurring operational pain—whiteboards and spreadsheets are genuinely messy
  • •Zero external dependencies and minutes-to-deploy means real adoption friction is low
Weaknesses
  • •Staff presence dashboards are well-solved by Slack, Teams, or lightweight alternatives; no differentiator
  • •Limited feature scope (kiosk mode, location comments) feels intentionally minimal, not strategically
  • •Tiny addressable market—only appeals to on-prem-only orgs; cloud adoption limits growth
Category
Productivity
Target Audience

Facilities teams, operational managers, government IT departments

Similar To

Slack presence status · Microsoft Teams status · Simple on-prem dashboards (Jira, Confluence)

Post Description

I built a small internal tool because our team had a constant problem keeping track of who was onsite, remote, or unavailable.

Different teams were using whiteboards, spreadsheets, or chat messages and it was messy for operational teams that just needed a quick "who is around" view.

So I built a simple real-time dashboard that shows everyone's status at a glance.

It runs locally, has no external dependencies, and can be deployed in a few minutes.

Technically it's a small Node.js application using a SQLite database with a simple web dashboard, designed to run entirely on-prem without requiring cloud services.

It has been running internally for a while and is now also running in production inside a government environment, so I decided to clean it up and release it publicly.

Curious what the HN crowd thinks.

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