Tiny Little Office

(tinylittleoffice.com)

128 points | by donohoe 3 hours ago

13 comments

  • alexpotato 1 hour ago
    As a kid in the late 1980s, my dad got me a PC (an Olivetti IBM clone to be precise).

    I distinctly remember that there were separate apps for spreadsheets (Lotus 1-2-3 [0]), charts (Harvard Graphics [1]) and word processing (Chi Writer [2]).

    And now we just have a basic office suite for free in one website.

    0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3

    1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Graphics

    2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChiWriter

  • simonw 2 hours ago
    Tell Claude or whatever to read https://tinylittleoffice.com/llms.txt and it will then be able to generate URLs that render documents.

    Here's a deck I had it generate about how the URL format works: https://bit.ly/4yRBc1v

  • yellowapple 1 hour ago
    FYI: OpenStreetMap seems to be blocking the site with a 403 error (suggesting maybe it's pulling too much data from OSM's servers?): https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Blocked_tiles
  • oijkuij 59 minutes ago
    If folks like this kind of thing, I discovered https://bento.page/ from a HN post and have been using it off and on for the past few months. It has a much larger featureset but is specifically focused on presentations (for now!). Unlike this project, the editor and content embed themselves in an html file, so you aren't dependent on the host site existing to serve the editor.
    • monk_grilla 39 minutes ago
      > https://bento.page/

      Maybe I'm a 2026 luddite but I can't bring myself to read about let alone try using products whose landing page is such a cookie cutter AI design. At least put some effort in to sand off the horrible unnecessary gloss and choose different fonts, colour schemes and layouts from every other project.

      I am gradually becoming resigned to the fact that I'll have to get over this prejudice, though I'm not sure how I will.

    • stackghost 55 minutes ago
      There’s also https://github.com/nathanvy/singlebook which looks like the same philosophy but for documents.
  • oidar 2 hours ago
    Is there no way to open saved documents? Like it won't open a .csv, .txt or .ics file for example?
    • pseudosavant 1 hour ago
      That gap surprised me too. But I couldn't find any way to open a saved document. I think it is just based on the URL.
  • ent101 2 hours ago
    can I do a PR for live collaboration? to be transparent, I'm going to use my own project puter.js for webrtc, but the project is open-source (https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter)
  • datas 2 hours ago
    I like stuff like this. Have you considered real time collaboration? Your not to far off from this with something like web sockets.

    Edit: realized it looks like the data is stored in the url, which is a neat approach but I guess its not really that close.

    • nine_k 2 hours ago
      It's entirely possible to update the URL in browser without reloading the page.

      Permalinks are needed to share documents, which would be something like a link shortener, with the target updating as the document is updated.

  • mattoxic 1 hour ago
    I was musing on something like this. There is non zero chance that some US administration disables GSuite / Office365 for all of us living in shithole countries.
  • rsingel 1 hour ago
    What was the recent site here on HN that let you do this but with signs and QR codes?
  • syngrog66 24 minutes ago
    so... the worst possible way to provide the functionality in question

    and the functionality has been available already for decades. solved problems, kiddos

  • kulahan 2 hours ago
    If you add a PDF annotation to this, it’d cover 100% of my (admittedly generic) needs. I know how big of an ask that can (used to?) be.
    • nine_k 1 hour ago
      Putting a PDF into the URL is not entirely impossible, but comes with serious limitations %)