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title: "You Can Just Build Things"
description: "I don't know if you know this, but the web is a beautiful platform that allows you the freedom to create things and put them out there. Its not tied to four..."
date: 2026-02-25
published: false
tags:
  - webdev
template: blog-post
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I don't know if you know this, but the web is a beautiful platform that allows
you the freedom to create things and put them out there.  Its not tied to four
major platforms.  You don't have to post your thoughts, ideas, and apps to a
platform, you can just make it.  This is a beautiful thing that seems to have
been forgotten.  I was inspired this morning from @scotthanselman's
[tinytooltown](https://www.tinytooltown.com/).  Looking through all of the tiny
tools that people have built for themself, as personal software, not answering
to anyone but themself, it was inspiring.

Agents have gotten a lot better, like seriously better.  The ai bros that were ai pilled too early that said SWE is over in six months called it too early.  It wasn't time.  Now since Nov 2025 we have had agents that can do some damn work.  Proving the point some of the greatest devs I've ever looked up to have not written a line of code since.  Not hype bros or someone not good at the craft, but seriously good devs leaning on it full time.

AI hype over you don't have to use ai, you can still just build things by hand, or if you don't have the coding skills you can probably ask an agent to build something good enough for you to use on your own.

As I wrote in <a href="/poc-is-not-product/" class="wikilink" data-title="poc is not product" data-description="A poc is ** a product. I started focais, not in a rush, but as something that I already had a POC for and thought it would be easy. I wanted to build tools..." data-date="2024-01-28">poc is not product</a> building products is hard.  You cant just vibe code out the next jira, medium, Pinterest, photos, but you can build a good enough task board, blog, and photos app that does what you need it to do without these.  It may not get you off of some of these platforms, but there's a good chance you can build out bespoke software that solves real problems you have

This is what makes the web interesting.

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<a href="/blogging-in-2024/" class="wikilink" data-title="blogging in 2024" data-description="Over the past years couple of years blog traffic has been tanking, for some time I thought it might have just been me, but then i heard it from Dave Rupert..." data-date="2024-08-05">blogging in 2024</a>

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<a href="/tinyapps/" class="wikilink" data-title="tinyapps" data-description="I&#39;m working on replacing my usage of google inline search apps with real apps, these are ones that I create and host on my own homelab. The first three that..." data-date="2025-05-22">tinyapps</a>