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+1 to this. Weather, translations, timezones, quick math, sports scores (searching “nba” gives a much cleaner interface than going to nba.com), not to mention Wikipedia snippets. That easily covers >50% of my searches.

I've been looking for something like this for the past couple of weeks, so I'm super excited to try it.

Another thing I think would be great would be shared virtual backgrounds depending on where on the map you are. My team has tried to hack this together manually (standups taking place with everyone having a background photo of our abandoned office space,etc) but an automated zoom plugin or similar would be great.

At Olodolo.com we process a few payments a day through CoinPayments. Haven't had any issues.

Just static sites for now, although you could have them talk to a backend somewhere else. A longterm goal is to allow basic backend code to run on the phone as well (ie. a simple wrapper around sqlite).

So the app actually works in the background and is meant to serve web pages from your daily driver phone (ie. out of your pocket). This particular phone is plugged in just because it serves the example pages which get higher traffic and should have higher uptime.

It's not a server in the true sense of the word. We piggyback on push notifications (proxied through our backend) to respond to requests. So really your phone's polling for requests, but it's a poll that it's already doing for push notifications.

I have an old iPhone SE plugged in and running a simple web server via (disclosure: my app) http://pocketweb.io

The two sample pages seen there are hosted from this phone.

Edit: There's an Android version available as well.

A similar idea that we're working on: https://pocketweb.io/

We've been working on a very similar idea to this for the past few months: https://pocketweb.io There is a very early beta available on both iOS and Android. We've thought a lot about battery and data and have gotten really good results by leveraging existing radio wakeups, batching requests, and doing all sorts of optimizations to the sites themselves.

Right now we're focused entirely on personal websites, because we believe the majority of those can actually easily be hosted on a phone (eg. How many people actually view your LinkedIn page every day? A single Facebook page doesn't require a datacenter. Etc).

We're limited to single static pages with images right now but better support for multiple pages and server code with SQLite is coming. More template types, for example stores, are coming as well.

Let us know what you think!

I had a similar idea about closing the loop a couple of years ago. I actually built the buying half you mention (olodolo.com) and it is still used by a small handful of happy customers. On top of it I imagined an Uber-like app where you're paid in tokens along with fiat currency, thus closing the loop, but never got further along than that thought.

Thanks for the feedback! We're still in very early days with regards to the UI, and I know there's a ton of room for improvement. Hopefully we'll have something more presentable ready soon!

Thanks! We'll get that fixed tonight.

We've been working on a very similar idea to this for the past few months: https://pocketweb.io

There is a very early iOS beta available, and Android is coming within the month. We've thought a lot about battery and data and have gotten really good results by leveraging existing radio wakeups, batching requests, and doing all sorts of optimizations to the sites themselves.

Right now we're focused entirely on personal websites, because we believe the majority of those can actually easily be hosted on a phone (eg. How many people actually view your LinkedIn page every day? A single Facebook page doesn't require a datacenter. Etc).

We're limited to single static pages with images right now but better support for multiple pages and server code with SQLite is coming. More template types, for example stores, are coming as well.

Let us know what you think!