WebTiles
create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you
Details
- External ID
- 46561341
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- WebTiles
- Website domain
- kicya.net
- Launched
- Jan. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 230
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9683794466403162
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- specialized calculators and estimation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- microblog social network platform
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a 2D canvas/grid app with iframe or sandboxed HTML embedding and user registration, easily achievable with web frameworks and a basic database backend.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: One Million Dollar Home Page, One Million Screenshots, Million Dollar Homepage knockoffs
Concerns raised: Navigation broken on keyboard/arrow keys, Performance issues with large-scale rendering, Sites in archive are no longer available, Audio volume startling without warning
Feature requests: Arrow key navigation support, Sound warning for audio content, Chunked rendering for better performance, Mobile-friendly painting controls
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 69 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #4 of 70 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 73 days after the earliest competitor.
- own.page · ph · 2026-05-25 · 664 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- tiled.page · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- WriteOn · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Plan² · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Crearoo - My Editor · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Paint the Earth on a live, interactive globe (collaborative art.) · hn · 2026-07-06 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- SplitWeb · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Pixel Space Canvas · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.