Hello to the curious explorers
of the web,
We all know an HTML file can
be anything:
• A video editor
• A spreadsheet
• A game
But I've always been concerned
with the lack of native tools
for editing HTML files
locally. Where is the
Photoshop, Microsoft Excel,
and Final Cut Pro of HTML
files?
Hyperclay
Hyperclay turns HTML files
into malleable artifacts.
Now we can build UIs on top of
them with only frontend code.
The file is both the app and
the data.
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| Every HTML file is a |
| creative application. |
+----------------------------+
The launch
Hyperclay is ready.
Three years, two months, and
seven days ago I wrote a
20-line Node.js script to
auto-save an HTML file.
Now I'm writing this email
inside a malleable HTML file
on my local computer. I'm
using the "Hyperclay Local"
app that runs on my desktop to
instantly sync this file to
the web, where it lives at
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What's next
Over the following weeks
you'll get 3 emails:
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| Email | Output |
+============================+
| Planning | Build and |
| Canvas | deploy in |
| example app | ~4 min |
|----------------------------|
| HyperclayJS | Missing DOM |
| | primitives |
| | library |
|----------------------------|
| Invitation | Beta |
| | invitation |
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Seats will be limited — I want
to support each user
individually and make sure
they find success. If you miss
the window, don't worry.
General signups will open
within a few months.
Beta expectations: You will be
the first to try a new way to
make software. It will be
really cool, I promise. But
there will be lots of bugs, I
also promise. Bug me about the
bugs endlessly, so I can fix
all of them and make everyone
really happy.
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Want to read about how my
opinion of software
development has changed over
the past 5+ years of working
on Hyperclay and its
predecessors?
Let's hack the web platform
and make it better for
everyone,
— David
@panphora
P.S. If you followed my
earlier experiment into
flattening the software stack,
Remake the Web, you are
receiving this email because
Hyperclay is an evolution of
that work.