18 Category · Hidden Gems
Underrated weird sites you probably haven't seen.
The directory · 18 entries
Real-time tap game played by the whole world at once. Smash the BAM to push your country up the live weekly leaderboard. Mobile-first, no signup, no download — built for one-handed phone taps. Resets every Monday so every country gets a fresh shot.
Jonathan Basile's 2015 implementation of Borges' 1941 short story. Every possible 410-page book exists at a permanent address. Search any phrase, find its location.
NFB of Canada interactive documentary about a tracked grizzly. Released 2012, still ahead of most attempts since.
Long-running archive of email replies sent to Craigslist personals and missed connections. Author commitment to the absurd is the joke.
Temporary email addresses to reduce signup spam. Quietly indispensable for anyone who hates email lists. Free, no signup.
The most-recommended free online guitar lessons. Justin Sandercoe has been teaching the internet to play guitar for 20+ years.
Disposable email inbox in a single click. Burner address, no signup, useful for any form asking for an email you do not want to give up. Quietly one of the most useful tools on the open web.
Wikipedia's live edit stream as ambient music. Bigger edits make deeper sounds. The encyclopedia being written in real time.
Interactive data essays. Each piece is a 10-15 minute scroll you remember weeks later. The publication that made the genre.
3D models you can rotate, zoom, and explore in your browser. The staff-picks feed alone is a working art gallery.
Put your own message on a British roadside yellow board — 18 styles, download as a PNG. Free, no login.
Live status for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the rest, with real response times. Tells you whether it's the model having a moment or your own connection.
A Product Hunt-style directory where new web tools launch, get voted on, and stay listed permanently instead of scrolling off after a day. Browsing is free; voting just needs a free account, one vote per launch.
A free read-only scanner that finds exposed keys, open databases, public .env files and misconfigurations in a live app, then shows you how to fix each one.
Recipes structured like systems documentation. The cooking site for people who think in flowcharts.
Live outage status for the apps you actually use — social, gaming, streaming. Its own checks plus official feeds, so you find out before you've rebooted your router twice.
Navigable 3D map of stars near our solar system. Click any star for data. Built by Google Chrome Experiments.
A series of single-purpose calm pages — type to clear your head, sit in silence, listen to the quiet.