Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file

Summary

Experience the Zen of making, hosting, and sharing great software in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file Build web apps like you're sculpting clay, not managing infrastructure. Modern web development forces you through layers of abstraction: config files, build steps, magic frameworks, deployment pipelines. Hyperclay returns to a simpler model: your app is a single HTML file you (and your clients) manipulate directly. Edit the file through its visual UI and it persists its own state. What if web apps were as simple to edit as documents? Hyperclay makes it possible: UI, logic, and data live in one self-modifying HTML file. Edit it live. Share it instantly. Download and use it locally. It's Google Docs for interactive code. Shareable, portable, malleable apps, but you fully control the document, what it looks like, and how it's edited. Direct Manipulation: Edit your app while it's running. No compile step, no refresh needed. Changes happen instantly, like editing a document. Share a URL and users see your updated page. What you see is what you build: The UI is the app itself. When you modify the interface or edit the source in DevTools, you're directly changing the application. There's no abstraction layer. True Portability: Export your app as an HTML file that runs anywhere: offline, on any server, forever. Version control tracks every save, protecting you from irreversible mistakes. The coolest part? It's just an HTML file. Nothing special. Change it, it serializes its DOM, and sends it to a /save endpoint. Nothing magic about it. I build several dozen websites a year When I’m in flow, coding a website feels like writing a story But it’s better than a story, because I can interact with it as I’m coding Most of the things I build transform some data into a more useful format Static websites are the obvious place to host these simple tools But static websites fall short in one annoying way: changes to them are ephemeral This is frustrating because the...