Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you
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5 days ago
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| webtiles.kicya.net
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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.
xp84
19 minutes ago
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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.

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reddalo
2 hours ago
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Reminds me a bit of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com

Old Internet times that will probably never come back.

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jsheard
2 hours ago
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I wonder how much of that would be left standing today if you blanked out all the dead/squatted links...
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soulofmischief
3 minutes ago
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I 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 :)
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Proofread0592
24 minutes ago
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The Alaska Mint is the only link I clicked that still worked
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kreelman
2 hours ago
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Pianoverse shows up in one of the tiles. Clicking on the piano keys in the tile produced tones!! Pianoverse is here, https://pianoverse.net/
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micku7zu
2 hours ago
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Link to pianoverse.net tile, so satisfying to play with: 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

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theogravity
3 hours ago
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This is really cool! How are you sandboxing the tiles and allowing limited JS execution?
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dimden
2 hours ago
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I'm using JS-Interpreter project: https://github.com/NeilFraser/JS-Interpreter . It's slow, but easy to add and work with.
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smusamashah
3 hours ago
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This immediately reminded of https://ourworldofpixels.com/
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dimden
2 hours ago
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I'm actually an admin of that site, and I learned JavaScript by creating scripts for it (which eventually led me to becoming admin there).
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rickcarlino
3 hours ago
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This is very fun. Great idea and execution.
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terabytest
2 hours ago
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How do you prevent DoS attacks?
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dimden
2 hours ago
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Cloudflare, rate limiting, and other limits.
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pupppet
4 hours ago
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Neat idea!
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aleksandrm
1 hour ago
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How does it differ from hundreds of other ideas and websites like this?
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