---
title: "Zone 1 — Web Apps — Survival Apps"
description: "Projects built from scratch: dashboards, tools, utilities that solve real problems — often mine first. Python · Flask · SQLite."
url: https://survival-apps.com/en/zone-1/
---

ZONE 1

# Web Apps

Projects built from scratch: dashboards, tools, utilities that solve real problems — often mine first. Python · Flask · SQLite.

## // TRANSMISSIONS IN THIS ZONE

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 TRANSMISSION 033 22 SEP 2026

ZONE 1 — WEB APPS · GUIDE

### A channel that asks for nothing in return

Survival Apps has no newsletter. It has an RSS feed: no account, no tracking, no email list. Here's how it works and why.

 ](https://survival-apps.com/en/transmissions/033-rss-feed-without-masters/) [

 TRANSMISSION 027 23 AUG 2026

ZONE 1 — WEB APPS · REFLECTION

### What keeps a workshop standing.

Code only carries a project so far. Written by someone who recently sat down at the Officina bench.

 ](https://survival-apps.com/en/transmissions/027-raven-workshop/) [

 TRANSMISSION 026 19 AUG 2026

ZONE 1 — WEB APPS · REFLECTION

### The Law Always Comes Later

From seat belts to speed limits to today's AI Act: why the law meant to protect you from a technology always arrives years too late.

 ](https://survival-apps.com/en/transmissions/026-the-law-always-comes-later/) [

 TRANSMISSION 013 16 JUL 2026

ZONE 1 — WEB APPS · CASE STUDY

### TRAUTOK STATION: the personal dashboard running on Python stdlib and SQLite

How my "command deck" is built: one HTML file with inline CSS/JS and a stdlib Python server (http.server + SQLite), seven panels and a node map.

 ](https://survival-apps.com/en/transmissions/013-personal-dashboard-python-sqlite/) [

 TRANSMISSION 008 03 JUL 2026

ZONE 1 — WEB APPS · REFLECTION

### Why I Started Using Claude Code (and What It Means for an Indie Dev)

An AI agent in an indie developer's terminal: what really changes, what doesn't, and how it fits a philosophy built on autonomy.

 ](https://survival-apps.com/en/transmissions/008-claude-code-indie-dev/) [

 TRANSMISSION 005 30 JUN 2026

ZONE 1 — WEB APPS · OPINION

### 2026 and the Return to Self-Hosting: What It Means for a Solo Developer

Free tiers vanishing, prices multiplying tenfold, services shutting down: why more and more developers are going back to hosting their own apps.

 ](https://survival-apps.com/en/transmissions/005-return-to-self-hosting/) [

 TRANSMISSION 002 21 JUN 2026

ZONE 1 — WEB APPS · MANIFESTO

### Why I Build Independent Software: From the Commodore 64 to Today

The Survival Apps manifesto: forty years of self-taught code, a PhD in Pharmacognosy, and why "independent" is a precise technical choice.

 ](https://survival-apps.com/en/transmissions/002-independent-software-from-the-commodore-64/) [

 TRANSMISSION 001 17 JUN 2026

ZONE 1 — WEB APPS · MANIFESTO

### First Connection

The opening transmission of Survival Apps: why this blog exists, who writes it, and the first project in the works — a dashboard in one HTML file.

 ](https://survival-apps.com/en/transmissions/001-first-connection/)