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Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you
There is a large grid of 250x250 tiles, on which you are be able to create a tiny website, contained into the tile.
You can basically consider the tile as a mini version of your website, showcasing what your full site has (but it can be anything). You are able to link to your full site, and use any HTML/CSS/JS inside. The purpose is to create beautiful and interesting tiles, that could be used for exploring the indie-web in an easy and interesting way.
- jdauriemma 8mo agoHeads up: I clicked a tile and got the hamsterdance music pretty loud in my ears. Serves me right for being distracted during a meeting but still, sound warning :)
- fedreg 8mo ago...was your mic muted during this meeting??
- pupppet 8mo agoNeat idea!
- zxcvasd 8mo ago[dead]
- heliumtera 8mo agothis is lovely, thank you for sharing!
- kevinbaur 8mo agocool idea!
- tiborsaas 8mo agoNavigation seems fundamentally broken. I can zoom in and out, can't navigate left/right/up/down. Cursor keys don't work. sometimes as it works randomly
- dimden 8mo agoYou can use mouse to navigate. Thanks for the feedback though, I've added support for movement with arrow keys if no tile is selected.
- mooball 8mo agoare you letting the internet vomit all over your server? impressed it has stayed as neat as it has.
- theogravity 8mo agoThis is really cool! How are you sandboxing the tiles and allowing limited JS execution?
- dimden 8mo agoI'm using JS-Interpreter project: https://github.com/NeilFraser/JS-Interpreter https://github.com/NeilFraser/JS-Interpreter . It's slow, but easy to add and work with.
- rickcarlino 8mo agoThis is very fun. Great idea and execution.
- smusamashah 8mo agoThis immediately reminded of https://ourworldofpixels.com/ https://ourworldofpixels.com/
- bowlcutWiz 8mo agothere are so many cool sites out there. how am i just finding this gem now?
- dimden 8mo agoI'm actually an admin of that site, and I learned JavaScript by creating scripts for it (which eventually led me to becoming admin there).
- tomasphan 8mo agoI accidentally painted a line through some pixel art on mobile. Sorry!
- sjapps 8mo ago[dead]
- terabytest 8mo agoHow do you prevent DoS attacks?
- dimden 8mo agoCloudflare, rate limiting, and other limits.
- kreelman 8mo agoPianoverse shows up in one of the tiles. Clicking on the piano keys in the tile produced tones!! Pianoverse is here, https://pianoverse.net/ https://pianoverse.net/
- micku7zu 8mo agoLink to pianoverse.net tile, so satisfying to play with: https://webtiles.kicya.net/#875,125 https://webtiles.kicya.net/#875,125 I also created an interactive tile based on my vanilla-tilt.js library for my app: https://webtiles.kicya.net/#625,3875 https://webtiles.kicya.net/#625,3875
- reddalo 8mo agoReminds me a bit of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com Old Internet times that will probably never come back.
- cjr 8mo agoalso reminds me of https://onemillionscreenshots.com https://onemillionscreenshots.com (full disclosure - my screenshot api takes the screenshots :) )
- ponchel 8mo agoI find it a bit sad of many of these websites are just no longer available
- jsheard 8mo agoI wonder how much of that would be left standing today if you blanked out all the dead/squatted links...
- Proofread0592 8mo agoThe Alaska Mint is the only link I clicked that still worked
- saw-lau 8mo agoGot through to The Times newspaper!
- soulofmischief 8mo agoI owned a nice little parcel, but my registrar had issues with a payment and the email got swallowed up and I didn't notice. Forgot to check up on it because I paid for several years up front at a time. Oh well :)
- squigz 8mo ago> Old Internet times that will probably never come back. I don't understand. How can you say this on a post about a site that is almost the exact same thing you're reminiscing about? Arguably way cooler - at least WebTiles isn't charging money for spots.
- aleksandrm 8mo agoHow does it differ from hundreds of other ideas and websites like this?
- xp84 8mo agoI'm immediately amazed at how many neat 'small web' sites, seemingly made with love by nice human people, have claimed tiles already. Browsing around the tiles that look interesting feels like peeking through a time portal at 2001, in the very best way. In this way it really beats milliondollarhomepage since most of that was just ads for the moneymakers of the day.
- regnodon 8mo agoThis is such a cool idea! The "corners of the internet" have felt increasingly opaque and cobwebby in this age of maximal indexing and centralization. Projects like this are a super cool way to recapture some of that old time magic.
- urjit 8mo agoI wish the performance could be a little better. Maybe render stuff in chunks based off the position?
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