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The Web Is More Than Enough
We rolled out tinylittleoffice.com—you heard it here first!—and it turned out that lots of folks were in the market for an “office suite that stores data in the URL.”
So many people visited that the server went down (well, I maxxed out the CloudFlare free plan), and ultimately, after I put in my credit card, a couple hundred thousand people came by to check it out. People on Hacker News insisted it was a pointless waste of time, and folks on GitHub started asking for features and fixes, all of which we’re considering, and some of which we’re doing. The Register wrote an article about it, and it also made it, for a little while, to the top ten of Product Hunt.
So all good; we will continue to support and enhance it, bit by bit, while we also do stable software development work for our customers and clients. But I did want to pause for a second and point out something that surprised me about the process. It’s this: The web browser is very, very, very powerful software for building applications.
