Launching today
Tiny Little Office
A tiny office suite where the link is the document
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A tiny office suite where the link is the document
94 followers
Ten tiny apps (text, spreadsheet, slides, outliner, calculator, drawing, diagrams, animation, calendar, trips) where the whole document lives in its URL. No accounts, no server, nothing saved unless you keep it on your device. Share the link: that's the file.
Hunting this for Paul Ford (@ftrain), who built it at Aboard, where I'm CTO.
The trick is that there's no backend. Every document is Markdown packed into the URL after the #, so your browser never sends it anywhere. Ten apps (a word processor, spreadsheet, slides, outliner, calculator, drawing, diagrams, animation, calendar, trip planner), each one small on purpose, and a document from one can sit inside another: a spreadsheet on a slide, an animation in a doc.
No accounts, no uploads, nothing stored on a server unless you use the optional link shortener, and even then it's encrypted with the key in the link. It's open source, and there's an API if you want to generate documents from code.
Paul's writeup on why he built it: https://aboard.com/introducing-tinylittleoffice-com/
Curious what you'd make with it, and what breaks. We'll be keeping a close eye on the comments.
Hi tried out it out, the idea is cool. I would like to change the scaling of the site right now the interface is too large, and one more thing the most used interaction the copy button when I click there is no state/feedback that tells me the link is copied.
@abhinav_prakashan you can use Cmd - (mac) or Ctrl - (Windows) to zoom out/make the UI more compact. It is huge though, I wonder why lol
Damn, this is genius!! I wonder how much data a URL can hold? Do you know the limit? This is so great though, for real! So many times I’ve wanted to make some quick calculations and booting up Excel and co. just for that always feel so tedious and slow. Let alone sharing those calculations with someone else!
Never mind, I just noticed you included that in the UI. So apparently the limit for Chrome is 2,097,079 characters
the useful bit for me is that a shared link is a snapshot
u can change ur copy without silently changing what the other person saw
a whole office in the url hash is a neat trick. does a doc from one app embedded in another still open fine if the link gets long?
Loved the idea. The UI is also clean and easy to adapt to. The only problem I see is security specially for Enterprise companies to use these. Great job anyway
This is fun! Thanks, @ftrain!