As a kid in the late 1980s, my dad got me a PC (an Olivetti IBM clone to be precise).

I distinctly remember that there were separate apps for spreadsheets (Lotus 1-2-3 [0]), charts (Harvard Graphics [1]) and word processing (Chi Writer [2]).

And now we just have a basic office suite for free in one website.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Graphics

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChiWriter

I was musing on something like this. There is non zero chance that some US administration disables GSuite / Office365 for all of us living in shithole countries.

Tell Claude or whatever to read https://tinylittleoffice.com/llms.txt and it will then be able to generate URLs that render documents.

Here's a deck I had it generate about how the URL format works: https://bit.ly/4yRBc1v

I like stuff like this. Have you considered real time collaboration? Your not to far off from this with something like web sockets.

Edit: realized it looks like the data is stored in the url, which is a neat approach but I guess its not really that close.

can I do a PR for live collaboration? to be transparent, I'm going to use my own project puter.js for webrtc, but the project is open-source (https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter)

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Is there no way to open saved documents? Like it won't open a .csv, .txt or .ics file for example?

If you add a PDF annotation to this, it’d cover 100% of my (admittedly generic) needs. I know how big of an ask that can (used to?) be.