The developer codes another free Microsoft Office clone for your browser, and it’s a perfect privacy combo for Signal fans with no logins and local storage only.
- A new vibration-encoded app offers a simple browser-based office suite
- Each file is ‘saved’ in the URL code
- The apps come with a variety of link/file sharing options.
AI vibration coding is now at a stage where these applications and agents can clone big-name software packages just by observing how they work. Now there’s a new web app, apparently written with the help of AI, that puts a simple office suite right in your browser, without needing to log in or access the cloud.
It’s called Tiny Little Office and comes from veteran developer and “tech thinker” Paul Ford. There are 10 different components here: word processor, outliner, presentation tool, spreadsheet, calculator, drawing tool, diagram maker, animator, calendar and travel planner. You can just click and start working.
There is a fundamental principle around which the office suite is built: the link is the document. Any changes you make to a file are saved as codes in the URL itself, and sharing that URL shares an exact copy of the file. Someone else can take that URL and make their own edits (although they will remain local and won’t sync with yours).
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When you share links, they can be protected with passwords, set to read-only, and set to expire after a set period of time (from an hour to a month). For your own use, multiple files can be saved locally in the browser, or you can choose to delete everything each time you close the page.
Six years in the making
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The story of the project begins six years ago, when Ford’s colleague Rich Ziade created TinySheet, a small ten-line spreadsheet that ran in the browser like Tiny Little Office does now. This was followed by TinyCalendar, but the projects were eventually abandoned, as were the URLs associated with them.
Now the idea is back as a full 10-app product suite, because “it really is easier than ever to build something small.” Ford says he uses the tool to leave notes in Slack and that “if Signal were an operating system, it could one day aspire to be your productivity suite” because of its private and simple approach.
“There are a lot of trade-offs,” Ford adds. “It’s not, in any way, how web apps are expected to work. Links can be difficult to paste into chat and you can’t upload videos or images, period. It’s not collaborative like Google Docs. It’s collaborative like handing out magazines at a street fair.”
The Tiny Little Office code is open source and can be viewed and used by anyone, there is support for LLM agents and you can also find Tiny Little Office on Bluesky. It’s unclear how much was vibration coded, but according to documents released by Ford, Claude Code was doing at least some of the work.
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