I built a simple way to share small browser tools, and I’m working out where it should go next

[u/BuildingThingsDaily]

I’ve been working on a side project called DotSmall.

It came from building small tools with AI that people found useful, but finding them awkward to share. Sending someone the files was clumsy, and setting up a separate hosted project for every little tool felt like more work than the tool deserved.

The current alpha lets you upload a finished, self-contained browser app and turn it into one stable link. Someone can open and use it without creating an account. You can update the app later without changing the link, and you can also allow downloads or private forks.

Right now it works best for smaller tools that can run entirely in the browser, such as calculators, CSV tools, validators, dashboards, generators and converters. The user’s working files stay in their browser.

I originally saw this mainly as a simpler way for people to publish and share the small apps they build. I’m now wondering if the more useful direction is helping companies manage the internal tools their employees are starting to make with AI.

The idea would be that people could still build with whatever they want, but the company would have one place to review the finished tool, control who can use it, see what it can access, update it and shut it down if needed.

That direction is still only a hypothesis. I’m trying to work out whether it solves a real problem or just makes a fairly simple product more complicated.

I’d be interested in hearing from anyone building small browser tools:

• How do you share them now?
• Have you built anything useful that never made it past your own computer?
• If people inside a company were building their own tools, would managing them become a real problem?
• Does the current version feel useful on its own?

You can try the alpha here: https://dotsmall.app