This is pretty much my plan for the next few years, with some added surprises :)
I really want to rekindle the days of geocities and flash. I call this "the cheap web" haha
I've also been working on open standards for authentication and payments within the ecosystem, but I'm not quite happy with the results yet. I don't like this world where we have to use companies like Auth0 and Stripe to build something worthwhile. I'm open to ideas!
[0] https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral
[1] https://mastodon.laurakalbag.com/@laura
Or maybe you can come up with something similar to a cryptocurrency that integrates with your data structure and has core things like digital signatures for secure transactions and public distributed ledger(s). It seems like there could be a way to adapt some underlying features of ScrapScript for this stuff. Maybe as part of the "lab" thing.
Just don't call it a cryptocurrency. Lol.
Side note: I was just watching the val.town video and at the end he mentions that "you are an object" and other people can access your properties. It immediately made me think of playing hackmud. Not sure if that's a good thing or bad!
Excited to see where this project goes.
The more I dig into mmm.page, the more I'm loving what you've built! I can't wait to play around with it next week. The design is gorgeous so far.
Somebody is giving a talk on "Print Inspired People-Computing" at my tech conference this August. You two would probably get along pretty well!
I'd love to have you in our community, so feel free to email me at [email protected] and I'll send you a free ticket :)
I'm grown out of it.
That being said, I have my thoughts on nostalgia-mining [1], and in short, believe that a more interesting visual culture today requires a more contemporary approach.
For example, one of my favorite pages is a page of hand-drawn comics combined with GIFs made by a kid [2], another is a cleverly-designed page on "soft tech" [3]. Here is an illustrative thread comparing link-in-bios and mmm.page sites made by the same person -- it's surprising how much tools can limit our self-expression [4].
Personally, I get excited when I see these examples -- a departure from the grid-confines of contemporary web design. In theory, nothing about "letting people create pages with as much freedom as possible" intrinsically = "90s web with blinking GIFs all over".
Let me know if you have any other questions.
[1] https://twitter.com/xhfloz/status/1631746051295117313
[2] https://littlebookfair.mmm.page/oneoneone
That's wildly cool.
This and Val Town [0] feel like they were made for each other. If you added them together with a nice front-end like mmm.page [1] I bet a million devs would sign up.
I'm working on something in a similar space that I'm hoping mihht develop into that [2]
It makes sense that the next step for the web is a more low-level social platform that works more like an agnostic API than a walled garden.
[0] https://www.val.town/
[1] https://build.mmm.page/
[2] https://hyperspace.so/