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I predict a ton of semi-popular web services will pop up over the next few years which follow this "small web" ethos. And I'll be seeking out (and building!) to
by jaredcwhite 6y ago
I predict a ton of semi-popular web services will pop up over the next few years which follow this "small web" ethos. And I'll be seeking out (and building!) tools like this. Too much VC money fueled a bloated developer ecosystem which nearly destroyed what makes the web fun and special, but the rebels are fighting back and we're seeing some pretty cool stuff arise which enables solo devs and tiny teams to accomplish some mighty things.
- benhoyt 6y agoI love this prediction, and also how you're working to make it self-fulfilling. :-) I've definitely seen it with the raft of small alternatives to Google Analytics that have popped up in the last couple of years. Do you have favourite services/apps you can link to?
- jaredcwhite 6y agoWell, besides things like Basecamp and HEY, I also use FastMail—which is where I store my calendars too. (Works just fine with iPhone/Fantastical/etc.) Currently working on a newsfeed reader which I dogfood daily. SkimFeed is a nice at-a-glance dashboard for tech feeds. Posting photos on a personal Tumblog after dumping Instagram. (As Automattic owns Tumblr, I'm glad to see the preservation of some nice old-school open web conventions.) I use DuckDuckGo for all my web searches. I don't know if Discord qualifies as "small web" but I'm grateful it's not polluted with awful ad-tech everywhere.
- michaelbuckbee 6y agoI'm also a heavy Fastmail user and just wanted to recommend Harmonizely for integration with it. It's a service like Calendly that works directly with Fastmail. This is important as while you can kind of hack together a Calendly -> GCal -> Fastmail loop you still end up with every meeting have extraneous Google Meet links in it, etc.
- jaredcwhite 6y agoThanks for the recommendation! This could prove very useful.