The austen.cc Almanac Edition --:--
A field guide to things made by

Austen.

I make small, sturdy software. Lately:
homes for websites

Three specimens currently orbit this domain. Each is collected, pinned, and annotated below, and each one is out in the wild if you want to go see it for yourself.

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Fig. 0 — the austen.cc system
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Contents

Three plates · one colophon
  1. I.Domus hospitalis — PW Hostingpwhosts.com→
  2. II.Piscis fabulator — 7fishget7fish.com→
  3. III.Stella familiaris — Little Starsstars.austen.cc→
Plate I · Family Hospitaliidae

Domus hospitalis

Common name: PW Hosting · pwhosts.com
$3
Fig. 1 — habitus, front elevation×1
  1. aChimney smoke: CloudFront, delivering from the edge
  2. bFront door: SFTP, for moving your files in
  3. cWindows: HTTPS, with SSL included
  4. dMailbox: email at your own domain
  5. eAddress plate: domains and Route 53 DNS
Habitat
Amazon Web Services: S3, CloudFront, Route 53
Diet
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and mail
Temper
Calm. Answered by real humans.
Range
From $3 a month

A sturdy little house for websites, inboxes, and domain names. Static sites live in S3 and travel by CloudFront; dynamic ones get PHP, MySQL and SFTP in a container of their own. Put web, email, and DNS on one domain and the DNS is on the house. There's an API for all of it, too.

Try it · assemble a domainyourdomain.com
Website$3
Email$10
DNS$5waived
Monthly$13

Visit pwhosts.com ↗
Plate II · Family Narratidae

Piscis fabulator

Common name: 7fish · get7fish.com
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Fig. 2 — lateral view, mid-story×1
  1. aBubbles: AI stories, written for you on the spot
  2. bScales: new words, added one at a time
  3. cEye: comprehensible input at your level
  4. dDorsal fin: adaptive difficulty
  5. eTail: built-in text-to-speech
Habitat
iOS and Android
Diet
Your interests, turned into stories at your level
Behavior
Nearly mastered words fade out and fresh ones swim in, in context
Range
Free, or $2 / $7 / $15 a month

Language learning by comprehensible input. No flashcard drills, just stories you actually want to finish, read aloud by text-to-speech. Stick with it and your aquarium of collectible fish keeps growing.

Try it · read a little, level upEN → ES

level 0 / 11
your aquarium · level up to collect fish
Visit get7fish.com ↗
Plate III · Family Asteridae

Stella familiaris

Common name: Little Stars · stars.austen.cc
Fig. 3 — specimen at rest, very proud×1
  1. aFive points: tasks, checked off
  2. bSmile: a kid who did the thing
  3. cRays: device-to-device sync, no cloud
  4. dSparkle: rewards, earned together
Habitat
Your family's browser. Saved locally.
Diet
Beds made, fish fed, siblings helped
Behavior
Kids pick their name, earn stars, and pitch in toward shared rewards
Range
Peer to peer, from one family device to the next

A family board for tasks and rewards that keeps its data at home. Everything is saved right in the browser, and devices connect directly to each other to sync instead of going through a cloud account. Parents set it up from a locked parent area; kids do the fun part.

Try it · do your chorestap to complete
0stars
Family reward: Pizza night · 10 ★
Visit stars.austen.cc ↗