Cool Websites

🌉 The useful stuff:

Bargain Boards

These are boards in which people post interesting deals and discounts. You can also register to get mailed of X product you are interested in, for example when a Nintendo Switch deal gets 1000 votes.

Australia: Ozbargains

Canada: Redflagdeals

Germany: Mydealz

UK: HotUKDeals

US: Slickdeals

Bargain Finders

Insert any, preferable techy, product and see which retailer sells it for the cheapest price. Other features Include price history, get mailed when something hits x price, etc

Australia: Shopbot

Austria, Germany: Geizhals

UK: Skinflint

Particulary on the localized stuff I need your help as I'm missing a lot of countries there, thanks! Tip: Check out your local craigslist / second hand as well.

Bugmenot

You don't have to create a account on every site you use. Protect your spam folder and take one of theirs.

Catbox

You just want to share something with your friends and Discord wants to sell you Nitro so bad? Catbox is your buddy. Tip: Do NOT upload any sensitive information, anywhere, unless you encrypt a archive and upload it that way: The host won't be the wiser what's in there. For temporary storage there's Litterbox. Alternatively: Wormhole, Oshi

Dropfile

Share files between devices in the same (W)LAN.

FicHub

When you own a e-reader or use a reading app on a comfy oled phone, you don't have to exclusively take commercial books. If you ever wondered how you could import community works like fanfictions, I just spared you the search. :)

GSMArena

Virtually everything phone, aside from buying, is what this site has covered for me. Be it reviews, guides, comparing specs and photos taken, this one has it all.

Ichi

You looking for a provider to showoff your amazing HTML and CSS skills? Over here. They're great people. Also: Neocities; Nekoweb

Liberapay

Liberapay is a recurrent donations platform that does not take a share from you, neither senders nor receivers. If at all, Stripe takes 3% and PayPal takes 5%, while your countries taxes apply. Liberapay itself only takes donations!

PCPartPicker

Building your first PC is not so simply. Gather inspiration from other builders and pick out your parts as if it's Lego. The builder makes sure that everything is compatible and gives you tips incase anything collides.

PDF24

Lots of PDF magic on the browser. Want a offline solution? Grab PDF24 Creator on said site.

Pexels

Royalty free stock images.

Phoenix Code

My choice for HTML & CSS editing that employs a live preview from the get go!

You want a app for offline use? Check this out

Ping / Packet Loss Test

Test your ping (to France) and see how stable your connection is. You're good to host something when you average under 200ms and get at most 1 fail within 60 send.

Privnote

Send private messages that self destruct after being read.

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a online library that houses countless public domain/royalty free eBooks

Simplenote

Made by the sweeties who bring you WordPress, a simple note taking site, all backed up on a cloud to be delivered to all your devices. You can also show them to the world and give edit permission. Why struggle to remember (x) when you can have Simplenote?

VirusTotal

What's better than one antivirus? All of them. VirusTotal unites everyone like it's nothing. You don't have to risk and upload the files yourself: just paste the URL where the file in question is located.

Vocaroo

Create voice messages and share them with a link. You can delete your recordings as long as you allow cookies and don't clear them.

webm.red

Do you encode your videos into VP8 or VP9? Is it no more than 20MB? This is the perfect place to share them to the world.

🌉 The fun stuff:

FUCKING HOMEPAGE

I'm not really into homepage sites (the kind that changes every day for weather news etc) but this one is so hilarious, it tends to give me the smile and/or useless knowledge i need.

Neal.Fun

Coolmathgames but for the based ones.

Nightwave Plaza

The one radio station ever.

My Abandonware

Discover and download good old games that are no longer commercially available.

Picture Cards Online

The ordinary website to play Cards Against Humanity on.

Purrli

Simulates the presence of a cat in your room.

Radio Garden

Pretend you're an alien in a warship deciding wether or not to destroy Earth, while listening to radio stations all over the dirtball.

Watch2Gether

Watch YouTube with your friends.

🌉 The Federated Web

Here I'm listing things that aren't making their home on a single site, but many sites that talk to each other: No matter which one you create your account on, you can communicate with users on other sites. You can picture it like a decentralized hivemind that has no 'boss'. Another advantage compared to the more common defederated platforms is that you don't have to create a account if you just want to browse. So, the things i'm gonna link below this are just 'entry gates' that tell you how it works and give you a list of sites to choose from. Have fun!

Lemmy

News aggregator / forum like Reddit

Mastodon

Microblog like Twitter

Pixelfed

Image sharing platform like Instagram

🌉 Honorable Mentions:

adminforge

a collection of many useful apps, all within said site

Reddit's InternetIsBeautiful

Websites come and go as we speak and we will never stop discovering more. Also check out Feddit's take.

Wiby

Wiby is a search engine with emphasis of the old web: No ads, no commercials, no javascript-heavy. Just hobbyism, academics and personalism. This is infact how i discovered Ichi.