Web users lack control over page weight and loading behavior
People on slow or unreliable connections and limited data plans struggle with pages that load too much, too soon, or fail to work well without a strong connection. At the same time, some users want deferred content to load immediately. Existing browser options and website defaults offer limited ways to choose how a page loads.
For bandwidth-conscious web users. Mentioned from Mar 2024 to Aug 2026 on Hacker News.
5 different people described this problem in 5 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 2.0/10
- Pain
- 4.8/10
- Frequency
- 6.5/10
- Willingness to pay
- 4.5/10
- Momentum
- 4.7/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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Please tell me if there’s a way to search and/or browse websites when the internet connection is terrible
I'm on a pretty limited mobile data plan. Imagine others might be too. Though I wish there was a way my browser could warn me
Build brief
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- Current workarounds, existing solutions and risks