fresh catches from the indie web.
A small, hand-picked log of web apps worth opening twice. Five issues since January 2026. No algorithms, no rankings, no sponsors.
tldraw
An infinite canvas that feels weightless. Sketch, diagram, drop one button and watch your wireframe become a working app.
tldraw.com →Excalidraw
Diagrams that look like they came out of a notebook. Open source, end-to-end encrypted, and somehow the default for everyone now.
excalidraw.com →omg.lol
A tiny, lovable corner of the web with your own .lol address. Profile, email, statuspage, weblog, pastebin — twenty bucks a year.
omg.lol →Are.na
Slow social for ideas. No likes, no feed, no metrics. Just connected things, made by people doing serious thinking out loud.
are.na →Tana
Notes that act like a database. Supertags turn a meeting note into a project, a person, a task — all at once, without templates.
tana.inc →Anytype
Notion if Notion were yours forever. Local-first, encrypted, peer-to-peer sync. Your second brain finally lives on your hard drive.
anytype.io →Sunsama
A calendar that asks you, gently, what you'll actually finish today. Daily ritual built in. The opposite of a productivity panic.
sunsama.com →Raindrop
A bookmark manager that looks like a museum. Visual cards, deep search, nested collections, and a price that still makes sense.
raindrop.io →Plausible
Web analytics without the spy stuff. One dashboard, one script, no cookie banner. Open source and EU-hosted by default.
plausible.io →Cubox
Read-later that's actually pleasant to come back to. Highlights, summaries, full-text search across everything you've ever saved.
cubox.cc →Mymind
A private visual memory for everything that catches your eye. No folders, no tags, no stress — the app figures it out for you.
mymind.com →Pika
Screenshots that look like product shots. Drop in a window, pick a background, get a thumbnail your designer would approve of.
pika.style →five issues so far.
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the small web
Personal corners of the internet. The apps that make you remember the web used to feel like a place, not a feed. Three new catches, focused on people who still publish under their own name.
added: omg.lol · Mymind · Pika -
saving for later, properly
The reading and saving issue. Read-later that respects the queue. Bookmarks that look like a collection, not a junk drawer. Both tools survived the move from "I'll try this" to "I open this every day".
added: Raindrop · Cubox -
drawing without slides
Two whiteboards that beat every diagram tool we know of. One ships an AI button that turns sketches into working interfaces; the other looks like your notebook and runs in any browser, fully offline.
added: tldraw · Excalidraw -
notes that act like databases
The "second brain" finally moves past the buzzword. Three picks that built real structure on top of free-form notes — supertags, encrypted local graphs, and a daily ritual we actually keep.
added: Tana · Anytype · Sunsama -
a quiet beginning
The first catch. Two apps picked on the same day this domain was registered — one analytics tool that respects readers, one slow social network that still feels like the early internet. We started here.
added: Plausible · Are.na
This is a quiet log of small web apps we keep coming back to. Twelve at a time. No sponsors, no affiliate links, no SEO tail.
Most lists rank by popularity. This one ranks by second visit. If we didn't reopen it on our own a week later, it didn't make the page.
started january 2026, kept by a small team in Warsaw · updated on the first weekend of each monthneed a small app that doesn't exist yet?
The catch is what we read. The other half of what we do — we design and build small, custom web apps for teams who need their own. A one-pager calculator. An internal dashboard a team actually uses. A pricing widget that doesn't need sixty kilos of JavaScript.
Short briefs. Fixed scope. No quarterly retainers, no roadmaps with sixteen swimlanes. Less code than you'd expect — usually a single page on a single edge worker, like this one.
- internal toolsqueues, dashboards, reviewers
- calculatorspricing, sizing, eligibility
- one-pagerslanding, microsite, manifest
- small saasprivate alpha → first hundred users
spotted something biting?
Send a one-line pitch and the URL. If it earns a second visit, it shows up in the next issue — the first weekend of the month.
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