I Replaced Homepage YAML with a SQLite UI — Here's Why

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Series: Building AMUD — Part 3 of 12
Part 1: Why I Built AMUD in Rust
Part 2: Install AMUD on Proxmox in One Command (No Docker Required)*

Homepage and Homarr are great — until you miss one YAML indent and the whole dashboard breaks. I built AMUD with a different rule: no YAML as primary config.

Quick facts

AMUD = Advanced Modern Unified Dashboard
Config lives in SQLite (amud.db), edited through the web UI
Layouts, tabs, apps, settings — all managed visually
Repo: https://github.com/boubli/AMUD-Dashboard

The YAML pain (you've felt it)

services:
  - Media:
      - Plex:
          href: http://plex.local:32400
           icon: plex.png

One wrong space and the page is blank.

With Homepage/Homarr you often:

Edit files on disk or in Git
Restart or reload to see changes
Debug syntax errors in nested YAML
Keep config in sync across machines

What AMUD does instead

Everything goes into SQLite in WAL mode (fast concurrent reads/writes):

Setting	Where
App cards and URLs	UI — drag, edit, save
Category tabs	UI
Grid columns, accent color	Settings → Appearance
Integrations (Plex, Jellyfin, HA)	Settings → Integrations
Proxmox token	Settings → Proxmox VE