[HN Gopher] Show HN: WebTiles - create a tiny 250x250 website wi...
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Show HN: WebTiles - create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors
around you
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.
Author : dimden
Score : 76 points
Date : 2026-01-10 00:32 UTC (4 days ago)
(HTM) web link (webtiles.kicya.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (webtiles.kicya.net)
| pupppet wrote:
| Neat idea!
| theogravity wrote:
| This is really cool! How are you sandboxing the tiles and
| allowing limited JS execution?
| dimden wrote:
| I'm using JS-Interpreter project:
| https://github.com/NeilFraser/JS-Interpreter . It's slow, but
| easy to add and work with.
| rickcarlino wrote:
| This is very fun. Great idea and execution.
| smusamashah wrote:
| This immediately reminded of https://ourworldofpixels.com/
| dimden wrote:
| 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).
| terabytest wrote:
| How do you prevent DoS attacks?
| dimden wrote:
| Cloudflare, rate limiting, and other limits.
| kreelman wrote:
| Pianoverse shows up in one of the tiles. Clicking on the piano
| keys in the tile produced tones!! Pianoverse is here,
| https://pianoverse.net/
| micku7zu wrote:
| 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
| reddalo wrote:
| Reminds me a bit of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com
|
| Old Internet times that will probably never come back.
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