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Show HN: I created a collection of useful websites

232 points by jayra 4y ago

bullen 4y ago
I made a link site 20 years ago: http://tentacle.rupy.se http://tentacle.rupy.se I still use it to this day. My memory is not what it used to be. Now I just need a dead link reporter tool for it.
- djmips 4y ago
  Nice. Enjoyed seeing your collection.
  - bullen 4y ago
    Thx!
  - bullen 4y ago
    I fixed registrations now... You can also use the tool and then list your entries like I do here: http://marc.rupy.se http://marc.rupy.se With a simple script tag.
- ahmed_ds 4y ago
  If you only added a description of this websites. Without seeing any description I am not comfortable clicking on any links.
  - bullen 4y ago
    Well, the site is for those that are more curious than afraid, so you should not visit it.
    - deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]
- 6c737133 4y ago
  ‘Category: Legs’ Lol No idea what that entails but keen to browse your site tomorrow, cheers
gregjor 4y ago
- jayra 4y ago
  Show me one affiliate link you found :)
  - gregjor 4y ago
    All of them. Here’s the link on the Omni Calculator “Visit website” button, just one example. https://www.omnicalculator.com/?ref=insanelyusefulwebsites https://www.omnicalculator.com/?ref=insanelyusefulwebsites &utm_campaign=Insanely%20Useful%20Websites &utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
    - jayra 4y ago
      That's a UTM tag that Revue adds automatically - not an affiliate link. Most of these sites are free dude. Take a look next time before jumping to conclusions and calling something junk.
      - NetOpWibby 4y ago
        Before jumping to conclusions? On HN?!
      - gregjor 4y ago
        The very first “useful website” on the page is a list of the best affiliate programs. Google and Amazon are free too, also full of ads and affiliate links.
    - cyral 4y ago
      What % commission do you think such "affiliate" gets for a website that doesn't sell anything? It's a UTM tag for Google Analytics
am_lu 4y ago
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flush-toilet-finder-map/id955254528 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flush-toilet-finder-map/id9552... its an apple store app and not even a website. Timewaster.
axg11 4y ago
I found some of these genuinely interesting and useful, so thanks. Overall I don't see a reason to come back to the website and not interested in the newsletter format. Nevertheless, I think you can turn this into _something_ if you are persistent with interesting websites.
- jayra 4y ago
  I'm glad you found some sites useful! And appreciate your honesty about the newsletter. I'd love to hear your thoughts about how it could be improved?
na85 4y ago
Neat, thanks for sharing. My main feedback is that it subjectively looks and feels very much like the SEO blogspam you get at the top of every google search these days. It's hard to put my finger on exactly what, but it feels visually busy and almost a little too polished.
- jayra 4y ago
  Thanks dude! I've been feeling weird about the design since I launched it, definitely needs a redesign. I've mostly been focused on the newsletter side of things and ignored the website. Thanks for bringing it up - I've pushed it to the top of my todo list.
  - rchaud 4y ago
    I'm not the OP, but I thought the design was OK. One thing I'd suggest removing however is the Product Hunt logo/widget. It's meaningless for people that may find your site via search. They don't care if it was the "Product of the Day" or whatever. Those are mostly for bragging rights in the lean startup community. Another reason to remove it is because it creates that negative "blogspam" signal in online communities like HN that are familiar with PH. There are lots or barebones websites offering color palettes and CSS gradients and calling themselves "products". Don't turn your website into one of those.
  - marginalia_nu 4y ago
    One thing that bothered me is that the images are sort of popping in and causing the layout to shift as you scroll down. If you set a dimensions on the img-tags, it will at least remove the layout shift.
  - rexreed 4y ago
    The design looks the same as https://www.billiondollarpitchdecks.com/ https://www.billiondollarpitchdecks.com/ both by FlowGenius.co which is where the OP is from, judging by post history. These sites are created using WebFlow (https://webflow.com/ https://webflow.com/) so I'm guessing part of the WebFlow look and feel (no code website builder)
nickthegreek 4y ago
https://audiobites.io/ https://audiobites.io/ is giving security risk in FF.
- jayra 4y ago
  That's weird! Just seen. Thanks dude, will remove this.
  - jesterman 4y ago
    The website appears to have been shut down, definitely should remove.
- unixfg 4y ago
  Looks like an Amazon EC2 certificate mixup. They'll probably fix it eventually
  - PenguinRevolver 4y ago
    > I have decided to sunset Audio Bites so that I can focus on my other ventures. I don't think so buddy
    - unixfg 4y ago
      Thanks, pal?
jayra 4y ago
P.s. Our Revue page has the most up-to-date websites (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/insanelyusefulwebsites https://www.getrevue.co/profile/insanelyusefulwebsites) I've been lazy in uploading them to the site...
saltmeister 4y ago
eappleby 4y ago
I use remove.bg, tempmail, and down for everyone or me somewhat regularly and used to love using bug me not (like 10 years ago). This reminds me of netted.net. They also focus mostly on their newsletter which gives one suggestion per day. Built by the same guys who started The Webbys.
sydthrowaway 4y ago
Does anyone know a free, online version of neural enhance?
- johndough 4y ago
  http://waifu2x.udp.jp http://waifu2x.udp.jp (set style to "photo" if you want to upsample photos instead of cartoon images)
- aendruk 4y ago
  Not hosted (who’s paying?) but this Docker image + pre-trained weights works pretty well, no special hardware required: https://idealo.github.io/image-super-resolution/tutorials/docker/ https://idealo.github.io/image-super-resolution/tutorials/do...
  - sydthrowaway 4y ago
    Couldnt this be hosted in the browser (client side)?
    - aendruk 4y ago
      Ha, if you so please. All hail our new universal VM!
unnouinceput 4y ago
I bookmarked this strange bookmark of sites :).
andrei52 4y ago
timerol 4y ago
I was disappointed when Flush, which seems like a neat service, linked to an app only available on Apple devices
throwawayboise 4y ago
https://time.is/ https://time.is/ Wow, someone actually built it.... https://www.joelonsoftware.com/whattimeisit/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/whattimeisit/
- nojs 4y ago
  I think they misread the spec unfortunately. > Non Goals > This version will not support the following features: > multiple time zones for one member. All members are assumed to be in the same time zone.
- Srikanth 4y ago
  And I'm grateful that they did. Among all the sites listed on that page, this is the one I use the most.
krasotkin 4y ago
It looks nice. The "Midomi" tile has a minor spelling error: "dentify" and the utm parameters sometimes suggest that this website is an email.
euler2100 4y ago
Nice collection, have to mention that this[0] is probably not the way you intended the card elements to look like on big screens (with the extra white space after the image). [0] https://ibb.co/qNfVtxd https://ibb.co/qNfVtxd
hobo_mark 4y ago
It's always interesting to get pulled out of one's own bubble, because I fail to find any of these websites useful? (other than mynoise, which I already knew)
TheRealNGenius 4y ago
you mean curated. not created
willmacdonald 4y ago
Super Agent works great! What a difference it makes.
ahmed_ds 4y ago
Add tags! Add as much as information as you can to be honest. I want to read before I want to click, specially if the link is going to redirect me to a new website different than the one I am one.
mattlauko 4y ago
Looks valuable, some of them might come in handy. But it's unstructured now and hard to navigate. It would be great to add categories and filtering. So users will be able to browser only what they're interested in. And if you plan on adding new sites it might help returning users if it displays "new since you last visited".
ideaeconomy 4y ago
adsyme 4y ago

232 points by jayra 4y ago

I made a link site 20 years ago: http://tentacle.rupy.se http://tentacle.rupy.se I still use it to this day. My memory is not what it used to be. Now I just need a dead link reporter tool for it.

djmips 4y ago
Nice. Enjoyed seeing your collection.
- bullen 4y ago
  Thx!
- bullen 4y ago
  I fixed registrations now... You can also use the tool and then list your entries like I do here: http://marc.rupy.se http://marc.rupy.se With a simple script tag.
ahmed_ds 4y ago
If you only added a description of this websites. Without seeing any description I am not comfortable clicking on any links.
- bullen 4y ago
  Well, the site is for those that are more curious than afraid, so you should not visit it.
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
6c737133 4y ago
‘Category: Legs’ Lol No idea what that entails but keen to browse your site tomorrow, cheers

gregjor 4y ago

jayra 4y ago
Show me one affiliate link you found :)
- gregjor 4y ago
  All of them. Here’s the link on the Omni Calculator “Visit website” button, just one example. https://www.omnicalculator.com/?ref=insanelyusefulwebsites https://www.omnicalculator.com/?ref=insanelyusefulwebsites &utm_campaign=Insanely%20Useful%20Websites &utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
  - jayra 4y ago
    That's a UTM tag that Revue adds automatically - not an affiliate link. Most of these sites are free dude. Take a look next time before jumping to conclusions and calling something junk.
    - NetOpWibby 4y ago
      Before jumping to conclusions? On HN?!
    - gregjor 4y ago
      The very first “useful website” on the page is a list of the best affiliate programs. Google and Amazon are free too, also full of ads and affiliate links.
  - cyral 4y ago
    What % commission do you think such "affiliate" gets for a website that doesn't sell anything? It's a UTM tag for Google Analytics

am_lu 4y ago

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flush-toilet-finder-map/id955254528 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flush-toilet-finder-map/id9552... its an apple store app and not even a website. Timewaster.

axg11 4y ago

I found some of these genuinely interesting and useful, so thanks. Overall I don't see a reason to come back to the website and not interested in the newsletter format. Nevertheless, I think you can turn this into _something_ if you are persistent with interesting websites.

jayra 4y ago
I'm glad you found some sites useful! And appreciate your honesty about the newsletter. I'd love to hear your thoughts about how it could be improved?

na85 4y ago

Neat, thanks for sharing. My main feedback is that it subjectively looks and feels very much like the SEO blogspam you get at the top of every google search these days. It's hard to put my finger on exactly what, but it feels visually busy and almost a little too polished.

jayra 4y ago
Thanks dude! I've been feeling weird about the design since I launched it, definitely needs a redesign. I've mostly been focused on the newsletter side of things and ignored the website. Thanks for bringing it up - I've pushed it to the top of my todo list.
- rchaud 4y ago
  I'm not the OP, but I thought the design was OK. One thing I'd suggest removing however is the Product Hunt logo/widget. It's meaningless for people that may find your site via search. They don't care if it was the "Product of the Day" or whatever. Those are mostly for bragging rights in the lean startup community. Another reason to remove it is because it creates that negative "blogspam" signal in online communities like HN that are familiar with PH. There are lots or barebones websites offering color palettes and CSS gradients and calling themselves "products". Don't turn your website into one of those.
- marginalia_nu 4y ago
  One thing that bothered me is that the images are sort of popping in and causing the layout to shift as you scroll down. If you set a dimensions on the img-tags, it will at least remove the layout shift.
- rexreed 4y ago
  The design looks the same as https://www.billiondollarpitchdecks.com/ https://www.billiondollarpitchdecks.com/ both by FlowGenius.co which is where the OP is from, judging by post history. These sites are created using WebFlow (https://webflow.com/ https://webflow.com/) so I'm guessing part of the WebFlow look and feel (no code website builder)

nickthegreek 4y ago

https://audiobites.io/ https://audiobites.io/ is giving security risk in FF.

jayra 4y ago
That's weird! Just seen. Thanks dude, will remove this.
- jesterman 4y ago
  The website appears to have been shut down, definitely should remove.
unixfg 4y ago
Looks like an Amazon EC2 certificate mixup. They'll probably fix it eventually
- PenguinRevolver 4y ago
  > I have decided to sunset Audio Bites so that I can focus on my other ventures. I don't think so buddy
  - unixfg 4y ago
    Thanks, pal?

jayra 4y ago

P.s. Our Revue page has the most up-to-date websites (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/insanelyusefulwebsites https://www.getrevue.co/profile/insanelyusefulwebsites) I've been lazy in uploading them to the site...

saltmeister 4y ago

eappleby 4y ago

I use remove.bg, tempmail, and down for everyone or me somewhat regularly and used to love using bug me not (like 10 years ago). This reminds me of netted.net. They also focus mostly on their newsletter which gives one suggestion per day. Built by the same guys who started The Webbys.

sydthrowaway 4y ago

Does anyone know a free, online version of neural enhance?

johndough 4y ago
http://waifu2x.udp.jp http://waifu2x.udp.jp (set style to "photo" if you want to upsample photos instead of cartoon images)
aendruk 4y ago
Not hosted (who’s paying?) but this Docker image + pre-trained weights works pretty well, no special hardware required: https://idealo.github.io/image-super-resolution/tutorials/docker/ https://idealo.github.io/image-super-resolution/tutorials/do...
- sydthrowaway 4y ago
  Couldnt this be hosted in the browser (client side)?
  - aendruk 4y ago
    Ha, if you so please. All hail our new universal VM!

unnouinceput 4y ago

I bookmarked this strange bookmark of sites :).

andrei52 4y ago

timerol 4y ago

I was disappointed when Flush, which seems like a neat service, linked to an app only available on Apple devices

throwawayboise 4y ago

https://time.is/ https://time.is/ Wow, someone actually built it.... https://www.joelonsoftware.com/whattimeisit/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/whattimeisit/

nojs 4y ago
I think they misread the spec unfortunately. > Non Goals > This version will not support the following features: > multiple time zones for one member. All members are assumed to be in the same time zone.
Srikanth 4y ago
And I'm grateful that they did. Among all the sites listed on that page, this is the one I use the most.

krasotkin 4y ago

It looks nice. The "Midomi" tile has a minor spelling error: "dentify" and the utm parameters sometimes suggest that this website is an email.

euler2100 4y ago

Nice collection, have to mention that this[0] is probably not the way you intended the card elements to look like on big screens (with the extra white space after the image). [0] https://ibb.co/qNfVtxd https://ibb.co/qNfVtxd

hobo_mark 4y ago

It's always interesting to get pulled out of one's own bubble, because I fail to find any of these websites useful? (other than mynoise, which I already knew)

TheRealNGenius 4y ago

you mean curated. not created

willmacdonald 4y ago

Super Agent works great! What a difference it makes.

ahmed_ds 4y ago

Add tags! Add as much as information as you can to be honest. I want to read before I want to click, specially if the link is going to redirect me to a new website different than the one I am one.

mattlauko 4y ago

Looks valuable, some of them might come in handy. But it's unstructured now and hard to navigate. It would be great to add categories and filtering. So users will be able to browser only what they're interested in. And if you plan on adding new sites it might help returning users if it displays "new since you last visited".

ideaeconomy 4y ago

adsyme 4y ago