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Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you (webtiles.kicya.net)

230 points by dimden ↗ HN
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.

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theogravity
This is really cool! How are you sandboxing the tiles and allowing limited JS execution?
rickcarlino
This is very fun. Great idea and execution.
aleksandrm
How does it differ from hundreds of other ideas and websites like this?
xp84
I'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
This 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
I wish the performance could be a little better. Maybe render stuff in chunks based off the position?
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heliumtera
this is lovely, thank you for sharing!
tiborsaas
Navigation 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

mooball
are you letting the internet vomit all over your server? impressed it has stayed as neat as it has.
jdauriemma
Heads 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 :)