+ Whoa, those aren't thumbnails - they are actually interactive site widgets? Cool, even though I don't really understand the underlying mental model; why would I want to interact with miniature versions of sites (other than it's cool, of course)?<p>+ App feels super fast. The site widgets were rendered instantaneously.<p>+ Yay dark mode by default.<p>+ I like the overall design. Feels very native to Chrome/Firefox with auto dark mode and styling in general.<p>- I don't get the purpose of the software. Is Pad a cloud based bookmark manager with interactive site widgets? Where's the "keeping tabs" portion of the app other than it visually organizes the sites using the widgets?<p>- I wanted to add a new site but hit the New Pad button - several times. Maybe it's the unfamiliarity of the term 'pad' or that I didn't expect that there are two levels of organization (pads -> sites). Maybe it's just me.
Hey HN, random hack project from the weekend that I thought I’d share.<p>Super POC, 5h50m according to Wakatime, not all of the buttons work, code is a bit of a mess but relatively lightweight. Next.js with material-ui.<p>Currently not responsive, desktop only, due to some logic that needs to be written to handle the iframe zoom functionality on any screen size.<p>App handles data client side only via local storage persistency, no accounts needed. Eventually plan to add a P2P sync process via WebRTC to do multi device or maybe even sharing.<p>Why not a bookmark manager, you ask?<p>I like switching between browsers and devices and wanted a similar experience but one I could just access on a url while also being client-only (still need the sync feature mentioned above). I also plan to add more devtools-like functionality such as viewport size toggles, load time checks, etc to make it easy to get a high-level glance of all the sites you manage.<p>Having some issues with iframe performance, have thought about some solutions like serving an image until interaction. Ideas are graciously welcome!<p>Thanks for looking
This is a pretty neat idea.
I'm not entirely sure how I'd make use of the iframes, but I'm already testing this out as a bookmark clustering tool, so I find the open all feature quite useful.