Chris Hannah

Code, camera, keyboard.
Status Online
Volume XII
Issue #6
Since 2015

A Growing Collection of "Mini" Apps

At the start of 2026, I wrote about wanting to produce more this year, and so far I've been doing just that.

Back in January I launched Miniroll, a way to create, manage, share, and embed blogrolls.

Since then, I also soft-launched Miniship, which lets you create, manage, and embed changelogs for your project. And just last night I shipped Minifocus, which is very niche, it lets you a central "focus" state and then embed elsewhere.

Miniroll

miniroll-landing

Miniroll was the first thing I shipped this year, and it's doing well. There are over 30 users, some of them paying for the premium features, and over 30 public blogrolls.

It's still very fresh, but it's starting to feel like a relatively complete product. You can create private/public blogrolls, import/export OPML files, embed blogrolls with various styles and options, generate combined RSS feeds, and quite a bit more

miniroll-explore

I personally like checking the explore page, and using the Random Blog button to find something new.

Miniship

miniship-landing

As I was working on Miniroll, I was keeping an updated changelog on the site. Which I then reaised could be a service by itself. So Miniship was born.

I didn't do a big launch, as I'm still working through feature development. But the core is ready right now, and now I'm working on adding a premium level. Right now you can create a single changelog which has it's own RSS feed, and it's own public page, which you can embed on your site directly.

miniship-explore

I've already added changelogs for all three Mini projects to Miniship, and I already find it useful myself. So I suspect other people may also find some value in it as well.

Minifocus

minifocus-landing

Now for the latest experiment, Minifocus. This is a project that I built for myself, and was because I wanted a dynamic "current focus" on my blogs home page that didn't require a full rebuild to update.

I don't expect it to gain much attention, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's only me that uses it.

All you can do at the moment is to set a current focus, and then view it on a public profile or embed it on your site. There's an explore page, which in theoery will show the most 100 recent updates, but it's just myself a the moment.

I may add a few small tweaks, such as being able to see and quickly select recent entries. But I don't expect I'll add too much.

minifocus-explore