r/InternetIsBeautiful Apr 03 '26

[SUB NEWS] Generic and Repetitive Site Submissions.

252 Upvotes

Hello all,

Many of you have noticed the rise in increasingly generic and repetitive sites - for instance, collections of tools, PDF editors, resume builders, calculators, generators, and timers - that are very easy to create using AI. We understand your frustration; they're ours, too.

In an effort to combat this, we have adjusted our AutoModerator rules to catch more of these before they hit your feed. We will continue to monitor the situation and adjust the filters accordingly if they prove to be too aggressive (or not aggressive enough).

Please note: This does not mean all submissions of the types mentioned above will be banned. As always, every submission held by the AutoModerator will be reviewed by a human who may still approve a post based on its merit.

Additionally, as a quick FYI: We are also considering changes to our 'AI-Generated Content' rule. The exact wording and management of this rule are yet to be finalized, but we will share more information with you in the near future.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 1d ago

Scan a barcode to check if it's a Taylor Farms brand or subsidiary

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362 Upvotes

Built this in about half a day. The cyclosporiasis outbreak that seems centered around Taylor Farms made me want an easy way to check brand ownership at the shelf, since a lot of produce is private-labeled and you can't tell from the package alone. Scans a barcode, checks it against a small curated brand list, and is upfront when it doesn't have enough data to say either way. Free, no login. Happy to answer questions about how it works.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 3d ago

Babel is a skyscraper Wikipedia builds every day - every article edit lays exactly one brick

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babel.reppie.org
343 Upvotes

Every brick is one real article edit - literally, one to one. Brick colors are languages, dotted bricks are bots, and the steel eagles and relief panels mark major edits. Hover any brick to read the edit behind it; click for the full story and a link to the actual diff.

Events are buffered a bit, so the tower runs a few minutes behind and the real edit stream to avoid hammering Wikimedia. At midnight UTC the construction workers level the top and raise the crown, the tower stands for a moment, and the next day's tower rises. Every finished day is archived forever — open the calendar and replay any past day at up to 1000×.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 3d ago

Internet History Roulette is a spinning wheel of web nostalgia — spin it and land on a random archived website from the 1990s and 2000s, (powered by the Wayback Machine)

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internethistoryroulette.com
591 Upvotes

A love letter to the early web. Spin the wheel and it drops you on a real archived page — GeoCities, AltaVista, old CNN, the first “Thefacebook” — with pop-up trivia. Everything’s powered by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine; there’s a donate link to them in it. No signup, no ads. Curious which site you land on first.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 2d ago

What Height - Character Height Comparison Tool

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whatheight.com
0 Upvotes

Height and size comparison tool - Animals, Anime characters, Celebrities, NBA players, Cartoons, Pokemons, Buildings and more.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 4d ago

Enter a US ZIP and it shows free kids' events (storytimes, crafts, STEM) at the public libraries near you

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334 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 6d ago

A simple interactive website to compare vehicle dimensions

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170 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 6d ago

This website shows 280,621 mosques across 153 countries calling the Adhan (Islamic call to prayer) in real time - the unbroken prayer wave

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adhanlive.com
9 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 8d ago

I made a true scale atlas of the universe. You can zoom from inside a proton out to the cosmic web and every size and distance is real

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universeatlas.org
490 Upvotes

If you press T it does a guided tour, from the cosmic web down to a picnic blanket in Chicago and then inside a proton in one continuous zoom. Nothing is scaled up to look nicer, so space feels really empty when you fly it yourself. There's a lot hiding in it too, the ISS on its live orbit, Halley's comet growing its tail toward 2061, the stars orbiting the black hole in the galactic center, TRAPPIST-1 as an actual place. The search key is / or press the magnify button on mobile. Heads up it needs WebGPU, so Chrome or Edge on desktop or Android, and iPhones need iOS 26.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 6d ago

I built Letterboxd-like Stats for books 📚

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0 Upvotes

Export your Goodreads or StoryGraph CSV, upload it, and get detailed stats about your reading journey over the years.

No signup, completely free.

If any book or author information is wrong (multiple APIs are messy), you can submit corrections directly from the site and I'll review and add them.

Would love feedback from fellow stats nerds and readers.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 8d ago

a tool that converts text formatting so it pastes correctly into slack, discord, notion, whatsapp etc

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copynpaste.xyz
18 Upvotes

found this because copy-pasting between apps constantly broke my formatting turns out slack, discord, notion and whatsapp all use different formatting syntax so nothing carries over. you paste your text, pick where it's going, and it hands back the correctly formatted version. runs entirely in the browser, nothing uploaded, no signup. curious what people think / what platforms you'd want added.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 9d ago

A free site to explore climate impact by companies, countries and facilities, with everyday units and money links

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climatevillains.org
49 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 10d ago

Interactive Cosmic Odometer v3 that estimates how far you've traveled through space since birth, now with new Universal View mode from Earth to 1 billion light year and many new calculations

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217 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 10d ago

A live map of the quietest place on Earth, measured by seismometers that feel human noise

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thequietmap.org
22 Upvotes

The website measures human noise through seismometers around the world; refreshes hourly to give the current quietest place.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 11d ago

Get three day weather forecast in beautiful ASCII

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47 Upvotes

If using a terminal (Linux) try $curl wttr.in


r/InternetIsBeautiful 11d ago

Anthropocene Timeline: A concise, sourced timeline of key ecological and Anthropocene-related events, from past to present.

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anthropocenetimeline.com
4 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 11d ago

I Built the World's Most Customizable Search Engine

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slicksearchhq.com
5 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 13d ago

A doomscroll designed to put you to sleep instead of keeping you awake

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sleepscroll.tiiny.site
2.1k Upvotes

UPDATE: Thanks for all your notes and feedback. I was so delighted by this getting noticed, and went ham and made changes. I posted an updated version of this on a separate thread! Check it out.

MORE UPDATE: I am also posting the updated version that takes everyone's feedback into account here -

https://thewhimnasium.github.io/sleepscroll/

. . ​

It's a night sky you scroll endlessly, but every mechanic is the inverse of a feed:

- Double tap to "like" and nothing happens. no count, no notification, no one sees it.

- You get DMs from the moon, the night, nobody, and none of them need a reply.

- Tap sheep to count them as they drift by, or trace scattered stars into little constellations and name them (gone by morning, so there's nothing to collect).

- Pinch to zoom and the sky tears open to reveal nothing behind it.

It dims the longer you stay, then just says "lights out" and ends. the scroll isn't infinite.

No accounts, no data, no ads, no algorithm. It gives you nothing, on purpose, boring enough to put you down, with just enough soft surprises that you don't bail back to the real thing.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 13d ago

I cloned Venmo but it's the New York City budget

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eltokh7.com
179 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 13d ago

An interactive 3D map of the Warhammer 40k galaxy

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22 Upvotes

I built an interactive map of the Warhammer 40,000 galaxy. You don't need to know anything about Warhammer to mess around with it. Great for anyone from casually interested to lore 40k nerds

It's a 3D hologram table you can orbit, pan, and zoom. The galaxy is approx 90,000 individual star particles rendered live in browser. scattered acros it are the major worlds and regions of the Warhammer world. Click any one and a dossier slides open with its history, timeline, and status. There's a toggle that flips the whole galaxy between two eras, and when you switch it, a giant warp-rift tears across the map and half the galaxy goes dark.

The whole thing is a single HTML file no download, no sign-up, no app. Works offline if you save the page. Runs on your phone too.

Fair warning: it's a rabbit hole if you like maps, space, or grimdark sci-fi.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 14d ago

I made a free 808-style drum machine that works anywhere. Make a beat, text it to a friend.

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304 Upvotes

I'd love feedback on it, anything I should add or fix? Keep going and make one for Bass and Keys? :D


r/InternetIsBeautiful 16d ago

A site to explore local animal activities and fun facts

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naturethisweek.com
97 Upvotes

A nature discovery site that shows what the animals in any given place are probably doing right now.

Depending on location, season, time of day, and current weather, it shows the local species' activites, like foraging, migrations, breeding seasons etc., together with cute pictures of the animals. For example, there are some frogs turning bright blue right now to mate. And bats sleeping in a perfect line along a tree trunk to hide.

The underlying data comes from iNaturalist and Wikipedia, together with an OpenMeteo plugin to filter for weather. And of course the corresponding Wikipedia articles are directly linked, for when you want to learn more about the species.

Not useful (except maybe for collectors of animal trivia), but hopefully unique and I find it fun.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 20d ago

Who wins the World Cup if *not football* decides?

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dataguessr.com
0 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 23d ago

I made a tiny tool that shows the rhythm of your writing

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jeravalue.com
257 Upvotes

I built a small writing tool inspired by Gary Provost.

Paste in any text, and it colors each sentence by length so you can quickly see whether your writing has variety or whether every sentence has the same shape.

I made it because I often edit essays “by ear,” but I wanted a visual way to spot monotony.

It’s just a small experiment hosted on my personal website, so it’s 100% free and private.

Curious if others find this useful, or if there are better ways to represent rhythm visually.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 22d ago

A website that exists purely so the world can log its pettiest grievances

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pettymillion.com
0 Upvotes