WebTiles
create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you
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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.
HN · launched Jan 10, 2026 · 230 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views
Niche: collaborative social web experiments · 63 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
Visit website ↗ Source listing ↗
More like this: all 63 launches in collaborative social web experiments →
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 : 159 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 160 (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 0.45
- WriteOn · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- SWD Develop CSS Minifier · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- tiled.page · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Websiites.com · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Crearoo - My Editor · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Plan² · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Limitlesscape · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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