Hidden Gems

bam.li ›

Country clicker: tap the big red button to push your country up a live weekly leaderboard. Free, no signup, built for phone taps.

Library of Babel ›

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.

Bear 71 ›

NFB of Canada interactive documentary about a tracked grizzly. Released 2012, still ahead of most attempts since.

Don't Even Reply ›

Long-running archive of email replies sent to Craigslist personals and missed connections. Author commitment to the absurd is the joke.

getnada.com ›

Temporary email addresses to reduce signup spam. Quietly indispensable for anyone who hates email lists. Free, no signup.

Justin Guitar ›

The most-recommended free online guitar lessons. Justin Sandercoe has been teaching the internet to play guitar for 20+ years.

LikeMail ›

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.

Listen To Wikipedia ›

Wikipedia's live edit stream as ambient music. Bigger edits make deeper sounds. The encyclopedia being written in real time.

Pudding Cool ›

Interactive data essays. Each piece is a 10-15 minute scroll you remember weeks later. The publication that made the genre.

Sketchfab ›

3D models you can rotate, zoom, and explore in your browser. The staff-picks feed alone is a working art gallery.

Yellow Boards ›

Put your own message on a British roadside yellow board — 18 styles, download as a PNG. Free, no login.

AI Status Checker ›

Is Claude down? Is ChatGPT down? AIDownCheck shows live status for AI tools, with incident history and which other tools break when a provider fails.

AlphaShot ›

A product launch directory where makers submit apps, tools and websites and the community upvotes them. Browse the top picks this week and new launches.

App Security Scanner ›

Website security scanner that checks your live app for exposed API keys, open Supabase databases, public .env files and source maps. Free, read-only.

Cooking For Engineers ›

Recipes structured like systems documentation. The cooking site for people who think in flowcharts.

Is It Down Right Now ›

Is it down right now? DownRN checks popular apps and services from its own servers and shows what else goes down with them. No ads, no signup.

NeoReader ›

Free QR code generator with logos, colors and frames, plus a QR code scanner and barcode maker. No sign-up, no watermark, and codes never expire.

Stars Chrome Experiment ›

Navigable 3D map of stars near our solar system. Click any star for data. Built by Google Chrome Experiments.

TechWhack ›

Free online tools for PDFs, images, developers and SEO. Merge PDF, compress images, format JSON, check your IP and more, with no sign-up and no watermark.