The 106 best small things on the web.
No accounts, no tracking, one ad. Every listing is opened and checked by hand before it goes up.
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Our own tools and games. Same rules as everything else on the list, and they can be voted down too.
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GrazeA ewe walks until something stops her, then turns. Eat the whole meadow in the fewest walks.
AbridgeListens to a doctor-patient visit and turns it into the clinical note and billing codes.
Ai2Nonprofit institute releasing Olmo, a language model whose weights, data and training code are public.
AiderPair on code from your terminal; it edits files and commits to git itself.
AnthropicTrains the Claude models and ships them as a chat app, a terminal agent and an API.
DragonsweeperMinesweeper reworked as a dungeon crawl where you read monsters instead of guessing.
Minute CrypticOne cryptic crossword clue a day, with a walkthrough that teaches the tricks.
EmberMade hereA forest fire, a wind, rain on the way. Dig four firebreaks so no house burns.
ConnectionsGroup sixteen words into four hidden categories with four mistakes allowed.
Simon Tatham's PuzzlesForty classic logic puzzles, including nonograms, playable in the browser with no fuss.
PhotopeaA Photoshop-grade image editor that opens PSD files in a browser tab.
ExcalidrawHand-drawn style whiteboard for quick diagrams, collaborative and open source.
iLovePDFMerge, split, compress and convert PDFs without installing anything.
iHatePDFBuilt after its maker was turned down by iLovePDF. Eighteen PDF tools, all in the browser.
SquooshCompress and convert images locally with side-by-side quality comparison.
ChatGPTAsk questions, analyse uploaded files, generate images and run research tasks in one conversation.
Free tierchatgpt.com
ClaudeTalk through long documents, write code and build small apps inside the chat window.
Free tierclaude.ai
CursorEdit a codebase with agents that read the whole project, from editor, terminal or pull request.
Free tiercursor.com
PerplexityAsk a question and get a cited answer pulled from current web sources.
Free tierperplexity.ai
ElevenLabsTurn writing into speech, clone a voice, or dub a video into another language.
Free tierelevenlabs.io
AI companies
Who builds what, and the product to try first.
OpenAITrains the GPT models and runs ChatGPT, the chat assistant and its developer API.
AnthropicTrains the Claude models and ships them as a chat app, a terminal agent and an API.
Google DeepMindRuns inside Google as its AI lab, behind Gemini, the Veo video models and AlphaFold.
Hugging FaceHosts the hub where most open models, datasets and demo apps actually live.
Mistral AIFrench lab training open-weight models, with Vibe as its chat and coding agent.
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