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·Daniel Oh·2 min read

Welcome to danoh.com

A retro Windows 98 desktop where any program you describe gets generated by Claude in seconds. Here is what is running underneath.

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danoh.com is a retro operating system experience powered by AI. Describe any application you want, and it gets generated on the fly, right inside a Windows 98-style desktop.

How it works

  1. Click Start > Run
  2. Describe the app you want: "paint app", "calculator", "snake game", anything
  3. The AI generates a fully functional HTML/CSS/JS application in seconds
  4. It opens in a draggable, resizable window on your desktop

How AI app generation works goes under the hood: how a sentence becomes a working program in three seconds, and where the model takes shortcuts you would never notice.

Fix & Iterate

Found a bug in a generated app? Click the ? button on any app window to open the Fix & Iterate chat. Describe what's wrong, and the AI developer fixes the code and updates the app live: no reload needed.

What can you build?

Anything that runs in a browser:

  • Games: chess, snake, tetris, minesweeper
  • Productivity: calculators, timers, todo lists, note-taking
  • Creative tools: paint apps, pixel editors, music sequencers
  • Data tools: charts, unit converters, JSON formatters
  • Fun stuff: quote generators, fortune tellers, trivia games

If it runs in a browser, Run can probably fake it in thirty seconds.

The tech behind it

danoh.com is built with:

  • Next.js 16 + React 19 for the frontend
  • Anthropic Claude for AI-powered app generation
  • 98.css for the authentic Windows 98 aesthetic
  • Docker + Traefik for deployment
  • PostgreSQL for session management

"The future of yesterday": every app you generate feels like discovering a lost program from an alternate reality 1998.

More to come. If something you generate breaks, tell the AI that built it: that's what the ? button in the title bar is for.

How did this land?
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