Scalar

Software has never been easier to start — or easier to turn into a mess. A simple application becomes a pile of frameworks, dependencies, services, and infrastructure, and AI just makes the pile grow faster. View on GitHub Edit on Replit Free, source included, nothing to sign up for. Most software starts from a blank project. Features get added, dependencies accumulate, architecture evolves, and workarounds become permanent — until changing one thing means worrying about five others. Scalar starts from the opposite premise: a deliberately simple foundation — Python on the server, server-rendered HTML, SQLite, and minimal JavaScript. A working application you can read from top to bottom, understand, and change.