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

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

• monk_grilla

  today at 12:44 AM

  Why not just get your agent to write LaTeX? Use the beamer template and get a much more professional, customisable, git-commitable and transferable presentation.

  • simonw

    today at 2:19 AM

    You inspired me to knock together a LaTeX version of the same pattern - lets you drop LaTeX in the URL so you can link to the rendered version.

• hmokiguess

  yesterday at 10:38 PM

  thank you, this explains much better, so it's kinda like https://bento.page/

  • redbell

    yesterday at 11:03 PM

    As seen on HN about three months ago, with +1000pts and +230cmnts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008211

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

• Gigachad

  today at 2:16 AM

  Open street map servers aren't really meant to be used in end user applications. They are primarily to support the editing of the map data. Usage like this should be with a provider like Mapbox, or your own supplied tiles.

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

  today at 12:42 AM

  > 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.

  • NewsaHackO

    today at 1:53 AM

    I agree with you, but it is so funny that three years ago, a website that look like this would probably make the front page for its excellent design alone. Now, it gives off similar energy to a wix website.

• stackghost

  today at 12:27 AM

  There’s also https://github.com/nathanvy/singlebook which looks like the same philosophy but for documents.

• xiangc

  today at 1:30 AM

  [flagged]

Is there no way to open saved documents? Like it won't open a .csv, .txt or .ics file for example?

• pseudosavant

  today at 12:12 AM

  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.

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)

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

  yesterday at 11:20 PM

  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.

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.

• bethekidyouwant

  yesterday at 11:57 PM

  What?

  • catlikesshrimp

    today at 1:04 AM

    https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-netherlands-is-rol...

What was the recent site here on HN that let you do this but with signs and QR codes?

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

  yesterday at 11:38 PM

  Putting a PDF into the URL is not entirely impossible, but comes with serious limitations %)

so... the worst possible way to provide the functionality in question

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