the slow net

Tools for creatives who want to breathe. Fewer tabs. More flow.

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Your Creative Toolkit

Email Forwarding

Create chill aliases that protect your real inbox while ensuring you don't miss important messages.

Custom Pages & Blocks

Design your unique public profile page with a drag-and-drop system of content blocks.

Project/Task Manager

Keep your creative projects on track with a simple, focused task management tool.

Digital Asset Library

Organize and showcase your creative work with a lightweight, secure digital asset repository.

Curated Link Lists

Save and share inspiring articles, useful tutorials, and essential resources for your craft.

Read-Later Queue

Curate your media consumption by saving articles, videos, and podcasts to a dedicated queue for later focus.

Sunday Shutdown

Everything closes. Just like your local taco joint on Mondays. Sacred, unavoidable, and good for the soul.

Open API Access

Build your own tools, integrate SlowNet into your stack, or just poke around for fun. Fully documented and dev-friendly.

Roadmap to a Focused Web

Now

  • Email Forwarding: Create a private email alias to protect your main inbox.
  • Custom Pages & Blocks: Craft your unique public profile page using various modular content blocks (text, links, images, quotes, books, video embeds).

Next

  • Project/Task Manager: Organize your creative workflow with a simple, focused task management tool.
  • API Access: Update or modify everything to do with your slownet presence, via a simple API!

Soon

  • Digital Asset Library: Upload and showcase small creative assets (images, PDFs, audio clips) directly on your page.
  • Curated Link Lists: Build and share lists of inspiring articles, tutorials, and essential resources.
  • Read-Later Queue: Save articles, videos, and podcasts for later consumption in a dedicated queue.

Later

  • Expanded Integrations: Connect with more external services relevant to creatives.
  • Collaboration Features: Tools to facilitate calm collaboration on projects.
  • Networking: Network with other SlowNet members who share the same philosophy as you!

Design Principles

Built with the intensity of a nap. No flashing, no autoplay, no yelling. Everything on The Slow Net whispers — nothing screams.

  • If it vibrates, it’s IP banned.
  • Dark mode is non-negotiable. But you can beg.
  • You're still alive even when the tech is turned off. Wild, right?

Community Ideals

If you’re looking for followers, clout, or hype… wrong site. We’re into vibes, not virality.

Lurking is engagement. Logging off is a feature. Being boring is beautiful.

You don’t need to be loud here.

How We’re Built

We use open standards and deploy with enough care that even your browser exhales. No bloated frameworks or shady tracking.

Supabase handles auth, Next.js handles vibes, Vercel serves it hot and fresh. The stack is lighter than your emotional baggage (you should probably get some help with that).

You won’t see ads. Or metrics. Or FOMO. It’s tech that doesn’t yell at you. A miracle these days.