MiniRepos

Not every project deserves its own repository. Sometimes you have an idea that takes twenty minutes to build, and spinning up a whole repo with a README and a license and CI pipelines feels like overkill for something that’s literally forty lines of HTML. MiniRepos is where those ideas live.

It started as a catch-all folder of random HTML files that I’d build on a whim and never look at again. Eventually I realized some of those little experiments were actually worth keeping around, so I gave them a proper home. It’s a playground for quick ideas, a museum of five-minute prototypes, and a place where small things get to exist without the pressure of being a “real project.”

#How It Works

The whole thing is static HTML. No build step, no framework, no bundler, nothing. Each subfolder is its own self-contained project with its own index.html and whatever supporting files it needs. The main page links out to each one with a short description so you know what you’re clicking into before you commit.

I keep it simple on purpose. The entire philosophy is removing friction between having an idea and having something running in a browser. If I need to prototype a quick algorithm, test a UI pattern, or just mess around with a web API, this is where I do it. No setup, no configuration, no ceremony.

#The Collection

Some highlights include small utilities that solved a specific problem I had for five minutes, visual demos of things I was curious about, and experimental tools that never made it past the proof-of-concept stage. A few of these little projects have actually graduated into full repos after proving themselves useful enough to warrant the investment.

#Current Status

It’s not glamorous, it’s not polished, and half the things in there are rough around the edges. But that’s the point. MiniRepos is proof that not everything needs to be a production-ready, well-documented, CI-tested project to be worth making. Sometimes you just need to build something small, see if it works, and move on. And occasionally, those small things turn out to be the ones you keep coming back to.