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5 min readThe web browser has become so powerful that Paul Ford, co-founder of the software company Aboard, was able to build an entire office suite — word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, outliner — that stores every document entirely inside a URL. There is no server database. No account login. No cloud storage. The document is the link. When you share the URL, you are handing over the complete file, not an invitation to view it. Ford calls the project Tiny Little Office, and it has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors since he launched it a few weeks ago. The whole thing took him about 30 hours to build, most of it on train commutes, using AI-assisted coding.
The URL as a floppy disk
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Show Notes
We talk a lot about where the computer is, and where your stuff is. Paul Ford, a co-founder of Aboard and longtime tech blogger, recently built a tool called TinyLittleOffice that puts all the stuff in an unexpected place: the URL. Paul joins the show to explain how the web and the cloud have become powerful development tools, what it means to store a document in its domain, and why tiny, disposable software could make a comeback in the age of AI.
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