[HN Gopher] Show HN: Mu - A Micro App Platform
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Show HN: Mu - A Micro App Platform
Hey all Sharing a new piece of work I've been doing with a friend.
Mu is a new micro web app platform which enables building and
sharing apps instantly with storage, auth and payments built in.
Apps are single file, built in the browser and rendered as an
iframe. They're "micro" because they're quite literally tiny single
purpose utilities like a hackernews reader or old school guest
book. It's mostly at this point something that scratches a personal
itch. Making app development super simple and lightweight. Sort of
like living GitHub gists. And trying to build a simpler, cleaner
place to consume the web. Right now nothing more than a cool hack
I'm sharing. Feedback obviously welcome. Cheers Asim
Author : asim
Score : 54 points
Date : 2023-08-29 11:42 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (mu.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (mu.app)
| peter_d_sherman wrote:
| Interesting model...
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| Basically a single standard HTML+CSS+JS web page, hosted
| remotely.
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| With the added ability to do User Authentication, Database
| Storage and Crypto Payments when hosted remotely, via custom
| API...
|
| Observation: That set of functionality could also be provided via
| JavaScript library or libraries -- without the requirement for
| the custom hosting...
|
| If so, then that/those library/libraries -- would still require
| those web services as endpoints...
|
| In other words, those libraries could still rely on the site
| "mu.app" for providing those services...
|
| Thus, the author could give away those libraries -- yet still
| sell those endpoint services -- sort of a SaaS model if you
| will...
|
| Anyway, just thinking aloud... <g>
|
| Looks cool -- and there should be many paths towards
| monetization, if that is desired!
| danpalmer wrote:
| "We have built in payments!"
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| The payments: Bitcoin.
| pavlov wrote:
| - Mom, can I have payments?
|
| - We have payments at home
| Rhapso wrote:
| Did we hug the micro app to death?
| p2hari wrote:
| Looks like it :(
| bithavoc wrote:
| I'm trying to use the Community Chat app, send button doesn't
| work. I'll try later, seems interesting.
| martinm3o wrote:
| Hey, thanks a million for the feedback. I'm the creator of that
| app and have just fixed this issue. Just to check were you
| logged in when you tried, as it should have alerted you?
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| sirmike_ wrote:
| What would be the use case for something like this?
| FireInsight wrote:
| So kind of like https://glitch.com/ and https://inbrowser.app/
| but somehow productized, has a bitcoin donation button, and uses
| iframes(??). Feels pretty slow too, but that might just be the HN
| hug of death.
| asim wrote:
| The HN hug of death definitely playing a part in that but also
| the app is just not optimised yet for performance.
| Unfortunately modern frameworks are absolutely terrible.
| simplify wrote:
| Not the same thing, but another "single file app" platform in the
| space that looks interesting is https://val.town. Could be used
| as a backend for Mu apps
| tr3ntg wrote:
| I thought of val town too when looking at this. Not that it's
| similar in any one way, but I've never been able to deploy
| small scripts / micro apps faster than with Val Town
| [deleted]
| curtisblaine wrote:
| Does this support local development?
| martinm3o wrote:
| Not yet, but this is something I have considered and could open
| up.
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