Microsites answer exactly one question
Is it a joke? Is it a tool? Why not both?
Is It ___ YetA full-screen yes or no, and nothing elseDays TilOne number, for the one date you care aboutShorts WeatherSkips the forecast and just tells youBin NightWhich bin, tonight, without opening a calendarIs It New This WeekFor the show you keep forgetting is on hiatusIs It Worth The TripFour conditions, one verdict, one place
Or describe your own →Why one question deserves a whole website
There is a specific kind of question you look up over and over and never remember the answer to. Is it bin night. Is the pool warm yet. Is that show back. Each one is thirty seconds of searching, four or five times a season, forever — and no one will ever build you an app for it, because there is no business in answering one question for one person.
These sites have been an internet tradition since the nineties, back when the joke was that the answer never changed. The good ones now work the answer out when you open them, from the clock, the weather, or whatever the real source is. Nobody maintains them. They're just right, quietly, on a Tuesday when nobody visits.
They're also the smallest thing worth building, which makes them the best place to start. Describe the question, get a link, put it on your home screen or send it to the group chat that keeps asking. It costs an afternoon at most, and usually a lot less.
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Questions
- Will it work on phones?
- Yes. Most people will find you on a phone, so the templates are built for that first.
- Does my app get its own link?
- Yes. Every app you publish gets a free address on our domain — something like yourapp.buildanything.com — that you can share with anyone. It opens in any browser on any device, with no install.
- Where does it get the answer from?
- From whatever actually decides it — the visitor's clock, their location and today's forecast, or a live source on the web. It works the answer out when the page opens, so it stays right without you touching it. Say which source matters when you describe it.
- What if the source is down?
- A good one says so rather than guessing. Ask for that when you describe it — an honest "couldn't check" is more useful than a confident wrong answer, and it's the difference between a site you trust and one you stop opening.