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Life & fun · July 8, 2014

Ratchet

Build mobile apps with simple HTML‚ CSS‚ and JS components.

Ratchet launched on July 8, 2014 with 76 votes, #635 of 2,263 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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Ratchet: Build mobile apps with simple HTML, CSS, and JS components.

Looks like your current browser is old and doesn't support many features used in this page. Please take a second to upgrade to a more modern browser . Build mobile apps with simple HTML‚ CSS‚ and JS components. Code licensed under the MIT License and the docs are licensed under CC BY 3.0 . Ratchet was lovingly crafted by Connor Searsfrom goratchet.com

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