MyKK: a single file browser start page

MyKK is a start page that ships as one HTML file weighing about 400KB, built by a single developer, Michal Ferber (mykk.us, read 2026-10-24). There's no server, no Docker container and no build step. You download the file, open it in a browser, and it works, including offline, since everything runs client-side and saves to localStorage by default. The same dashboard is also available as a hosted Cloud Dashboard at start.mykk.us for anyone who'd rather not manage a file at all, and as a Chrome extension that loads the Cloud Dashboard on every new tab.

That makes it a fit for someone who wants a start page without running infrastructure or trusting a company's server with their bookmarks, and who doesn't mind a single Google sign-in only when they actually want sync. The repository was created in July 2025 and was pushed to on this read, 2026-10-24, with earlier commits across the preceding week (github.com, read 2026-10-24), so it's a genuinely young, actively worked-on project rather than an established one; it also had no GitHub stars at the time of this read.

The free tier covers a lot of ground for a single file: a search bar that switches between seven engines (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Yahoo, Ecosia and Startpage), a drag-and-drop bookmark grid with auto-detected favicons, a mini calendar, a clock with 12 or 24-hour display, a rotating greeting and quote, a notepad with plain text, rich text and markdown modes, a paint canvas that exports to PNG or PDF, and a webcam widget for quick selfies. Layout is drag and drop, themes and backgrounds are customizable, and settings can be exported or imported as a file (mykk.us/docs, read 2026-10-24).

Pro adds a live weather widget with an interactive radar map (rain, clouds, temperature and wind layers, powered by OpenWeatherMap), unlimited iFrame embeds for things like Google Calendar or Notion, RSS feeds, stock quotes through Yahoo Finance with an optional Marketstack key, a Twitter/X timeline embed, a daily focus widget paired with a to-do list, ambient background sounds, and calendar sync through ICS feeds from Google, Outlook, Apple or Nextcloud. It also unlocks bookmark folders and multiple, tabbed dashboard pages (mykk.us/docs, read 2026-10-24).

There are three documented ways in: download index.html from GitHub and open it directly in any browser, visit start.mykk.us to use the hosted version instantly, or install the Chrome extension so every new tab opens the Cloud Dashboard automatically. The Cloud Dashboard can also be installed as a Progressive Web App in Chrome, Edge or Safari, which keeps it working offline through a service worker (mykk.us/docs, read 2026-10-24). None of the three requires an account; signing in with Google is only needed for cloud sync or to activate Pro.

For self-hosting specifically, the file has no dependencies and no database, so it drops onto any static host: Nginx, Apache, Caddy, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel or S3, or it can just be opened from the local filesystem (mykk.us/docs, read 2026-10-24).

Free covers the search bar, bookmarks (without folders), the mini calendar (without ICS sync), clock, drag-and-drop layout, custom themes and backgrounds, greeting and quotes, the notepad, paint canvas and webcam, light and dark mode, Google-based cloud sync, and export and import. Pro is $3 a year, starting with a 30-day free trial that can be canceled before it ends at no cost; left to renew, it continues automatically until canceled. Pro adds the weather and radar widget, unlimited iFrame widgets, Donetick task integration, RSS feeds, stock quotes, the Twitter/X feed, daily focus and to-do list, ambient sounds, ICS calendar sync, bookmark folders, multiple dashboard pages, the Chrome extension's Pro activation, and priority support (mykk.us, read 2026-10-24).

Several features that sound like basics are Pro-gated rather than free: you can add bookmarks for free, but not organize them into folders, and the calendar widget is a plain month view until you pay for ICS sync with an actual calendar service. One dashboard page is free; more than one needs Pro.

The privacy trade-off is specific and worth knowing before you rely on it. With the Chrome extension installed and an active Pro subscription, RSS and calendar requests route through MyKK's own API. Without the extension, the dashboard falls back to sending your RSS feed URLs to a third-party service (rss2json.com) and your calendar feed URLs, which often carry a private access token, through two other third-party proxies (corsproxy.io and allorigins.win) to get around browser restrictions on cross-site requests (mykk.us/privacy, read 2026-10-24). If that calendar token matters to you, the fix the maintainer documents is to install the extension.

The weather widget needs your own free OpenWeatherMap API key, the same setup step widgets like this tend to carry across this whole category. A Pro subscription is also capped to three activated devices by default, per the privacy policy's description of the device-activation records it keeps.

Finally, it's a young project. It was created in July 2025, had no GitHub stars at the time of this read, and is maintained by one developer, so it doesn't yet have the track record of the older hosted start pages it competes with.