web-apps on S Anand

Things I Learned - 19 Apr 2026

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This week, I learned:

WebApps are a depreciated store of value. Earlier, a web-app would have impressed me because the capability to create it is rare, and the effort to create it is high. Today, when I see a “localhost:3000” or a “replit.app” domain, I mentally discount the effort behind it and ask: How rare is the capability to create this with a coding agent and how much effort is it. THAT determines the value of what I see. Part of the value is “Look ma, no hands!” and it’s delightful they’ve learnt. Part of the value is “There’s gold in them thar hills!” and use-case discovery is important.
WaveCity is a WASM build of Audacity, i.e. Audacity running in the browser! Audiomass is a similar but simpler audio editor - again, WASM-based. Gemini

Mon, 15 May 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Google Notebook released. Would be more useful when they

India News 17 May 2006 5:10 am: I am building a large INDIA news website. I found your blog today and loved the things that you write about! Would you be willing to write 1-3 small articles about India related topics that I can include on our site? We will gladly link back to your blog from the page that your article is on. - We have high ambitions for this site and will be generating quite a bit of traffic. Would you like to trade links? (Our site is: http://www.India-News.in ) I would love for your contribution,

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Google Calendar is out. But for some reason, it’s too slow for me.

Dhar 13 Apr 2006 8:08 am: You are right. It was too frigging slow in the beginning. But after the initial wait, things worked out. :))
Krishna 15 Apr 2006 5:48 pm: Do you still see it being slow?
S Anand 16 Apr 2006 6:45 am: It loads slowly, but is OK now. I’m having problems importing data in the iCal format, though.

Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:00:00 +0000

The Oracle of Google is the coolest Google app so far. Ask it a question with 4 choices, and it uses Google to guess the answer. It knows that Abdul Kalam is India’s President, though it did prefer Vajpayee to former Presidents. via Google Weblog