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Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large audience?
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- redmattred 12y agoYo
- thejosh 12y agohttp://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat is a TV calendar I have been using for like 7 years, damn thing is great. Not sure of their exact traffic but it's pretty popular.
- SchizoDuckie 12y agoIt's pretty neat :) I'm building one myself, about 20k users atm. (more targeted at getting to the content though) http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV/ http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV/
- Fogest 12y agoI'd host those images on something other than Imgur, some of the images there are missing.
- SchizoDuckie 12y agoThanks for the heads up! We recently swapped out some images that are now not under my private account
- twixter 12y agoThe only example I can think of is HN. It's probably the only example I can conceive of existing, too, since it's in a pretty unique position of being cheap to serve and indefinitely funded (hence not under pressure to grow, monetize, or advertise to cover costs).
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- zubairq 12y agonemcv.com
- malditojavi 12y agobookmarking this
- dhaivatpandya 12y agohttp://sleepyti.me http://sleepyti.me - simple concept, simple implementation, lots of users.
- njsubedi 12y agoExactly. At late nights when I am unsure about whether to sleep or continue working, I simply go to the site and calculate when to sleep. It has become a habit!
- alelefant 12y agoI'm completely amazed that people do this to figure out when to sleep. My intent is not to sound rude; I'm a big believer of "do what works" in my personal life and at work. For me it's always so simple: if the following day is a work day, I need to make sure I get at least 7 hours of sleep so that determines how late I can stay up. If it's the weekend, I go to sleep when my body says it needs a break.
- throwaway3453 12y agoShameless plug, http://jollynap.com http://jollynap.com It's the same formula SleepyTime uses, in a mobile friendly format.
- aquassaut 12y agoThe sleep now option doesn't seem to take my time zone into account.
- throwaway3453 12y agoThe time is based on your browser's Date function which should match your system clock. I think you might be experiencing a strange calculation with Daylight Savings.
- tpg 12y agoThe two appear to get different results. To get up at 7:00 AM, sleepyti.me says to go to sleep at 10:00 PM, whereas jollynap says to go to bed at 10:45 PM. Obviously the latter is taking 15 minutes into account for falling asleep, but it's still an hour difference.
- palcu 12y agohttp://idonethis.com/ http://idonethis.com/ is a simple idea that lots of people use.
- tekacs 12y agoTheir [integrations][1] are pretty nice, too. Command line support! :) [1]: https://idonethis.com/apps-integrations/ https://idonethis.com/apps-integrations/
- cplease 12y agoCraigslist.
- sgrove 12y agohttp://jsonip.com/ http://jsonip.com/ has quite a bit of traffic
- droopyEyelids 12y agoCookie Clicker http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
- no_gravity 12y agoWould be interesting if we could share some actual numbers. http://www.music-map.com http://www.music-map.com has about 100k monthly users.
- umenline 12y agoWhat this app suppose to do ? And from where you take the data ?
- no_gravity 12y agoIt shows bands on a map. Organized by taste. The data comes from http://www.gnoosic.com http://www.gnoosic.com
- bobosha 12y agodoodle.io
- folz 12y agohttp://strawpoll.me/ http://strawpoll.me/ - create simple straw polls that anyone can answer at a unique link. Every game streamer I watch uses it daily. Dead simple to use and a memorable name.
- ams6110 12y agoI like that... and I would use it if it allowed the voter to enter their name so I could see who had chosen which response.
- nelse 12y agohttp://www.worldtimebuddy.com http://www.worldtimebuddy.com
- binwiederhier 12y agoUse it all the time. Great tool!
- matznerd 12y agogreat for coordinating workers and teams in multiple time zones!
- fieldforceapp 12y agohttp://timeanddate.com http://timeanddate.com is my go-to tool
- avirambm 12y agohttp://doodle.com http://doodle.com
- rattray 12y agohttp://when2meet.com http://when2meet.com as well
- reledi 12y agoI've been looking for a Doodle replacement. This looks promising.
- timtas 12y agoShameless plug for my app. http://slotted.co http://slotted.co Many people use it for one-on-one meetings like office hours. But you can make any kind of signup sheet you can imagine. Very geek friendly UI.
- girishso 12y agohttp://tweetd.com http://tweetd.com http://fa2png.io/ http://fa2png.io/
- DotSauce 12y agohttp://preev.com/ http://preev.com/ http://gifcountdown.com/ http://gifcountdown.com/ http://www.convertico.com/ http://www.convertico.com/ http://pastebin.com/ http://pastebin.com/ http://www.bustaname.com/ http://www.bustaname.com/
- c16 12y ago+1 to Bustaname.com, it's a great tool for finding domain names and one I have found to be invaluable.
- harvestmoon 12y agoBustaname is pretty nifty and useful. I'm also a fan of Namebird, a name generator that uses probability algorithms to make names that are catchy and memorable http://shobia.com/namebird http://shobia.com/namebird (and only partly because I made it!)
- corobo 12y agoI keep seeing this plugged (by yourself actually.. :P ) I think it definitely needs a tutorial or walkthrough of some sort. I only ever get dodgy looking words that aren't memorable in any sense, in fact would be extremely difficult to say over the phone. I am guessing it's the way I'm using it but I don't know any better! :)
- harvestmoon 12y agoHehe, launching something new you made is hard/takes persistence. Hope I'm not being annoying; seemed to be appropriate here and the other time I mentioned it in a comment on HN. Sorry to hear that. There actually is a tutorial/guide referenced a bit lower on the page but not many people seem to see it, may need to emphasize it more! Maybe try the basic word maker to make words starting with 'arb,' 'orb' or 'mar'? I've found the words those generate are fairly nice as an idea for what it can do. Also maybe try shorter words? Dunno. To be honest, having used the other name generation tools, this is the one I'd use to get a new domain name and a good amount of people have found names they like through Namebird (someone put in starts with 'pay' and got paydrow for instance and I used it to name itself too :P).
- vld 12y agohttp://ip-api.com/ http://ip-api.com/ ~400m requests/month
- humbyvaldes 12y agohttp://ownzee.com http://ownzee.com
- bsilvereagle 12y agohttp://mathb.in http://mathb.in Math pastebin with LaTeX/HTML/Markdown mashup.
- instakill 12y agoI'd imagine jsfiddle.
- rattray 12y agoI'm not sure what counts as "small", but I can't imagine they have very few LOC...
- tjazo 12y agohttp://naymit.com/ http://naymit.com/ In many regions of the world, navigation devices only locate a fraction of buildings by their street address. Naymit lets you mark, share and find exact locations.
- dalek2point3 12y agoI'm intrigued -- what countries are we talking about?
- tamedo 12y agohttp://pinboard.in http://pinboard.in
- daphneokeefe 12y agoI love pinboard! I started out with delicious until it got bought and got weird, then I moved to Google bookmarks but it's so crude. I need something that follows me on every machine. The magick is in being able to add tags.
- wyclif 12y agoThe irony is that Pinboard really is the rightful heir of del.icio.us, not Delicious.com.
- akos 12y agoI'm so curious.. I don't use pinboard, but everyone says it's awesome. What's so good in it?
- buro9 12y agoIt's no frills, just works, saves a cached version of the page when you bookmarked it, doesn't change in any way that is going to surprise you, did I say it just works?
- modarts 12y agoI've wondered the same.. I actually subscribed to see what the hype was about; after using it for a few weeks I found it hard to justify the cost for such a simple and relatively featureless webapp
- sireat 12y agoI actually gave up just a few weeks ago on Delicious (I have 15k+ bookmarks there, but it gets too slow too often) and moved to Pinboard. Exporting from Delicious into Pinboard was done in a few minutes. Pinboard is just like Delicious but faster and more responsive, I am willing to pay $10.61 for that. And I actually paid for archive option not because I particularly need it but because I like the idea of supporting a lean one person operation. Only thing Pinboard is missing(just like Delicious is missing) is quick filling in of suggested tags. Also, for some reason Pinboard suggests IFTTT tag almost every time. I only use IFTTT sparingly.
- mikesabat 12y agohttp://www.boomeranggmail.com/ http://www.boomeranggmail.com/ I feel like half the people I talk to at work use Boomerang for gmail. They seem small because I don't see a footprint online or much marketing from them.
- chrismdp 12y agohttp://pininthemap.com http://pininthemap.com
- sagarjauhari 12y agoAny.do
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- philjackson 12y agohttp://yipgo.com http://yipgo.com
- binwiederhier 12y agoThis looks intriguing, but as usual not enough information on the site. And I'm not willing to sign up after having seen only 2 tiny screenshots.
- zerr 12y agoInteresting, how do you explore these apps? Personally, I've never heard about any of apps mentioned so far. EDIT: >You mean how do people find out about these apps? Yes.
- icco 12y agoWhat do you mean by "explore"? You mean how do people find out about these apps? Usually word of mouth, online forums, stuff like that. Even five years ago, the global programming community wasn't that large. If someone built something small and useful, and they promoted it in their local community (like at a LUG, Perl Mongers, other meetup) they gained decent usage and exposure.
- kinlan 12y agoI am trying to document some at mobilewebappsftw.tumblr.com because finding apps on the web is incredibly hard. You also have places such as Chrome Web Store and Firefox OS Marketplace
- kaushalp88 12y agohttp://isebolanear.me/ http://isebolanear.me/
- nroets 12y agoIt tells me I'm "You are 7970.70 miles away from Ebola at Bellevue Hospital Center", which is completely wrong. I'm only 3500 miles from Liberia: http://www.gcmap.com/dist?P=ROB-JNB http://www.gcmap.com/dist?P=ROB-JNB
- aabaker99 12y agoI'm in Houston and it's only 250 miles to Dallas and yet, "You are 706.93 miles away from Ebola at Emory University Hospital! Stay safe!"
- JohnMunsch 12y agoThat's 100% correct, eight days ago there were zero active cases of Ebola in Dallas. The two active cases since the first one had been shipped out to other cities and they were just on watches for the remaining exposures.
- icco 12y agohttp://everytimezone.com http://everytimezone.com
- flaie 12y agoNice UI
- quinndupont 12y agoMaybe not as pretty, but more customizable http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
- kawsper 12y agoReally nice UI. But as a dane I find AM/PM really confusing, I would love if these types of webpages also had a 24-hour version.
- chintan39 12y agohttp://birthde.com http://birthde.com
- ep103 12y agonewguid.com
- coderholic 12y agohttp://ipinfo.io http://ipinfo.io API gets ~300M requests per month
- agilebyte 12y agohttp://scrumy.com/ http://scrumy.com/ - scrum board
- JohnHaugeland 12y agoI keep reading this as "screw me" which, you know, with scrums, kind of makes sense
- the_cat_kittles 12y agohttp://www.metronomeonline.com/ http://www.metronomeonline.com/
- dpcan 12y agohttp://www.leandomainsearch.com http://www.leandomainsearch.com
- codes_for_food 12y agohttp://www.sharedcount.com/ http://www.sharedcount.com/ According to their Twitter, their API serves more than 1 billion requests per month.
- archagon 12y agohttp://feedbin.me http://feedbin.me As with Pinboard, it became popular in the vacuum following the implosion of a large, centralized service.
- wenderen 12y agohttp://universalscrobbler.invitationstation.org http://universalscrobbler.invitationstation.org, a manual scrobbler for last.fm
- RealGeek 12y agohttp://www.ranksignals.com http://www.ranksignals.com Used by over 50,000 internet marketers every month.
- albumedia 12y agohttps://jamaicanize.com https://jamaicanize.com
- hu_me 12y agohttp://utm.io http://utm.io url shortener with builtin support for google analytics link tagging utm parameters. time saver for marketers creating tracking links for google analytics.
- okbake 12y agoSeems like a cool idea, though all I'm getting is a directory listing when I visit the site.
- hu_me 12y agosorry about that I thought sun night would be a good time to move to heroku. should be resolved now.
- raminassemi 12y agoWhat always prevents me from using URL shorteners other than bit.ly or goo.gl is reliability. Might have temporary downtime just at the time when a traffic surge comes, or completely stop working one day and then you've got a bunch of broken links. Seeing (C) 2013 on a site when it's nov 2014 makes me not even take a second look :) Would fix that.
- ninjakeyboard 12y agonot huge but jsonprettyprint.com gets 20k hits a month. http://www.similarweb.com/website/jsonprettyprint.com http://www.similarweb.com/website/jsonprettyprint.com
- tlongren 12y agoLaunched https://passwds.io https://passwds.io a few days ago and it's gotten 500 uniques every day since it's launch. By no means large, but growing every day. :) And just made a new blog post about plans for passwds.io, like opening up the source: https://longren.io/introducing-passwds-io/ https://longren.io/introducing-passwds-io/
- binarydreams 12y agohttp://cssdeck.com http://cssdeck.com
- jarnix 12y agotwitter
- fowkswe 12y agoI'd love to know what kind of numbers http://bigassmessage.com/ http://bigassmessage.com/ sees.
- puredemo 12y agoThat Magic theme is going to kill someone with epilepsy.
- EpicDavi 12y agoJesus Christ, there really needs to be a warning on that.
- EpicDavi 12y ago> 2,600,000+ messages created. 10,000,000+ unique visitors. 24,000,000+ pageviews. -According to http://badmeangood.com/ http://badmeangood.com/
- akos 12y agoSunCalc is a little app that shows sun movement and sunlight phases during the given day at the given location. http://suncalc.net/ http://suncalc.net/
- Vekz 12y agohttp://www.checkiday.com/ http://www.checkiday.com/ shows you what obscure holidays are happening every day.
- tiffani 12y agohttp://getbarometer.com/ http://getbarometer.com/
- pgbovine 12y agohttp://pythontutor.com/ http://pythontutor.com/ (my webapp) very small footprint ... just a single simple CGI script. but pulls in 6,000 - 10,000 uses per day. not "large" by commercial standards, but not bad for a free tool made by a single person.
- Hamatti 12y agoI have to say, I absolutely love your app. I use it when teaching people to program all the time!
- tomaskafka 12y agoCool! This reminds me of an object graph visualizer my friend Martin have written for SharpDevelop long time ago: http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/martinkonicek/archive/2011/06/04/debugger-visualizers-for-sharpdevelop.aspx http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/martinkonicek/archiv...
- reledi 12y agoI tutored in university and Online Python Tutor came in handy many times, thanks!
- stevephillips 12y agohttp://www.workflowy.com http://www.workflowy.com is very popular and one of my favorite apps
- rsivapr 12y agoI love workflowy, but it's definitely not a "small" web app.
- jipumarino 12y agohttp://escaladenotas.cl http://escaladenotas.cl 300K users per month, 600K in June and November, mainly Chilean teachers.
- thilokonzok 12y agoteuxdeux
- dylanhassinger 12y agohttp://www.joesgoals.com/ http://www.joesgoals.com/
- gabemart 12y agoWhat counts as a large audience? 100k monthly uniques? 1 million? 10 million?
- thinkpozzitive 12y agoI would think that for a small web app 100K a month would probably be the starting threshold. (maybe even 50K if it's < 6 months old)
- nicky0 12y agohttp://timertab.com http://timertab.com
- clone1018 12y agohttps://minotar.net https://minotar.net does about 4 billion requests every month. About 15 million unique "visitors".
- vvpan 12y agoNot sure if it's small enough: https://www.toggl.com/ https://www.toggl.com/
- nhoven 12y agohttp://imgur.com/ http://imgur.com/ comes to mind, though its scope has obviously seen a vast increase from when it first appeared
- drham 12y agoGiven that they raised $40mm[1] earlier this year not sure they really fit in this list. [1] http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/03/imgur-the-startup-that-doesnt-need-funding-closes-40m-from-reddit-andreessen-horowitz/ http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/03/imgur-the-startup-that-doe...
- swanson 12y agohttps://bufferapp.com/ https://bufferapp.com/ https://knowyourcompany.com/ https://knowyourcompany.com/
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- jayeola 12y agohttp://www.yamllint.com/ http://www.yamllint.com/
- chadscira 12y agohttp://img42.com http://img42.com (temporary image hosting)
- mattlondon 12y agohttp://standardjavascript.info http://standardjavascript.info Great when I just cant remember the syntax for non-jQuery things in pure javascript!
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- lifethinkist 12y agoProductivity web apps that I have used: - Carbon Fin Outliner (Outliner) - https://cfoutliner.appspot.com/ https://cfoutliner.appspot.com/ - Writebox (Dropbox Text Editor) - https://write-box.appspot.com/ https://write-box.appspot.com/ - Toodledo (Tasks, Notes, etc) - http://www.toodledo.com/ http://www.toodledo.com/ - Textdrop App (Dropbox Text Editor)- https://www.textdropapp.com https://www.textdropapp.com
- reledi 12y agohttp://www.gistboxapp.com http://www.gistboxapp.com - lets you add metadata to your GitHub gists (e.g. labels) and the search is much better
- eugeneionesco 12y agohttp://devdocs.io/ http://devdocs.io/
- tonetheman 12y agohttp://fridaysuntil.com http://fridaysuntil.com Not really a large audience. :)
- gorkemcetin 12y agoOpen source mobile analytics & push notifications - http://count.ly http://count.ly - more than 2000+ servers running worldwide
- nlivingstone 12y agohttp://codepen.io http://codepen.io
- jonobird1 12y agohttps://targeted.io https://targeted.io - Email testing, made by two developers. 200% growth per month. Not large in commercial standards but still large amount of users for a two man team.
- drewvolpe 12y agohttp://doodle.com/ http://doodle.com/ - Very simple way to pick a time for a meeting
- paulirish 12y agoEtherpad : real-time collaborative text editor. Readable URLs so great for instantly getting people together on a doc. http://etherpad.org/ http://etherpad.org/ is the project site but a commonly used hosted one is at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/ https://etherpad.mozilla.org/
- edpichler 12y agoWhat can we consider a large audience? One million users?
- thinkpozzitive 12y ago100K bottom threshold, 50K if < 6 months old
- cageface 12y agoInteresting to consider that the vast majority of these apps could be implemented as well or better as mobile apps. I'm on record as being a skeptic of the "mobile is eating the world" meme but I do expect a lot of these kinds of smaller, more specialized apps will migrate to the computers we carry with us everywhere.
- zwass 12y agoLooking at the top-voted examples here, I would entirely disagree. They seem to mostly be utilities that would be used while in the process of doing other, more involved work. For those apps that are useful on mobile, what advantage would they gain by being developed as mobile apps? In their current states they work on nearly every system commonly in use in the world, including all of the popular mobile platforms.
- moveelo 12y agoDoCapture got 20,000 uniques the first two days. Not much but still hitting a few hundred daily http://skakunmedia.com/docapture/ http://skakunmedia.com/docapture/
- sergiotapia 12y agohttp://www.smitecamp.com/ http://www.smitecamp.com/ A really simple Rails CRUD app where 90% of the time was spent inputting data and making it look nice. We average about 500 daily uniques and pay for it purely by advertising revenue (lol - "revenue"). It pays for itself and is a nice resume-booster.
- sjs382 12y agohttp://aboutbrowser.com http://aboutbrowser.com -- share browser details via a link or email. Enables better troubleshooting than "What browser are you using?"
- gableroux 12y agohttp://sebastianpontow.de/css2compass/ http://sebastianpontow.de/css2compass/ Nice tool to convert css into scss, a bit like http://js2coffee.org http://js2coffee.org (which has probably even more audience) Would be nice to see css2compass as a node module like js2coffee does, we should tweet the author about this. Very usefull tool. I dont know the analytics for those, but I use them almost everyday ;)
- talles 12y agodinopass.com
- galfarragem 12y agohttp://www.tubalr.com/ http://www.tubalr.com/ Probably not a large audience but very useful: one mouse click and you are listening music.
- koberstein 12y agohttps://icomoon.io/ https://icomoon.io/
- JeanPol 12y agohttp://socialairways.com/ http://socialairways.com/ Is a nice application that connects people who are on the same flight.
- Rondom 12y agoUmap: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/ https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/ Easily create custom maps showing distances, areas, points/pins, heatmaps...
- agbonghama 12y agoCool list of small webapps.page bookmarked.
- haidrali 12y agohttp://www.hurl.it/ http://www.hurl.it/
- eugene_pirogov 12y agohttp://time.is http://time.is
- tonixx 12y agohttp://ShareBar.net http://ShareBar.net http://LaunchSoon.com http://LaunchSoon.com
- timtas 12y agohttp://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ - URL encoder/decoder http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ - JSON formatter http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/ http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/ - Gradient generator http://mp3cut.net/ http://mp3cut.net/ - MP3 cutter http://ipinfo.io/ http://ipinfo.io/ - Geo from IP as JSON http://www.usdebtclock.org/ http://www.usdebtclock.org/ - US Debt clock http://ifttt.com http://ifttt.com - General purpose web robot
- gauravgupta 12y agohttps://clippod.com https://clippod.com - Great social plugin for Google Calendar.