Why I built The Digital Junk Drawer and why I want your tiny apps to live there.
We’ve all been there.
You have a weird idea for a mini-game, a niche calculator, or a CSS experiment. You spend four hours coding it, you get it working, you smile at the screen... and then you close the editor.
That project never sees the light of day because it feels "too small" for a dedicated repository or a full domain.
I decided to change that.
Introducing: The Digital Junk Drawer
The Digital Junk Drawer is a curated, community-driven collection of micro-web apps, classic games, and digital oddities, literally anything. Some are helpful, some are time-wasters, and all are built out of pure curiosity.
Why go Open Source?
I realized that my "junk drawer" of code isn't unique. Thousands of developers have these "digital dust-collectors" sitting in their /projects folder.
I wanted to create a place where we can all toss our tiny experiments into one big, interactive pile. By turning this into an open-source project, I'm hoping to:
Provide a home for projects that don't "fit" anywhere else.
Help beginners get their first-ever Pull Request merged in a friendly, low-pressure environment.Build a nostalgic gallery of what web devs can do with just a bit of HTML, CSS, and JS.
How You Can Contribute (It’s easy!)
I’ve streamlined the process so you don't have to spend hours setting up a dev environment.
- Fork the repo.
- Drop your HTML (keep CSS/JS internal for simplicity) into the /HTMLs folder.
- Add a thumbnail to /Images. Link it in the index.html.
That’s it. Submit a PR, and your app is suddenly part of a global collection hosted on Vercel.
The Goal
I want this to become the internet’s most interesting drawer. I want people to click around and find things they didn't know they needed (or definitely didn't need, but enjoyed anyway).
Check out the live site: https://the-digital-junk-drawer.vercel.app/
Contribute on GitHub: https://github.com/Georgel0/The-Digital-Junk-Drawer-
What's sitting in your /projects folder right now that deserves a spot in the drawer? Let me know in the comments!
Top comments (0)