Ask HN: Share your fav quirky, weird, interesting websites (like postcrossing)?

11 points by akudha 4y ago ↗ HN

One of my favorites is postcrossing.com - a huge community of people interested in postcards. some 65 million postcards sent, tons of friendships formed, thousands of meetups etc. I'd have never guessed that so many people can be so passionate about postcards - I doubt most young people today have sent/received even a single postcard.

What are some of your favorite corners of the web? There was one site where someone was digitizing tens of thousands of newspapers all by himself, one where a couple (I think) wrote passionately about various plants... I forgot to bookmark them, my bad.

Anyway, please share your favorites and why. Not just websites, apps are good too. I am tired of going to the same websites everyday (reddit, some youtube channels...) - would be nice to discover projects that are primarily born out of passion, unlike the 99.99% of the web whose primary goal is money.

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gquiniou 4y ago ↗

http://uglyships.com/ is one of my faves, unfortunately the recent posts are less spectacular because they already posted the weirder ones.

akudha 4y ago ↗

woah, some of those are quite ugly, lol. Thank you, bookmarked

funOtter 4y ago ↗

Ravelry, the social network for knitters

h0p3 4y ago ↗

https://philosopher.life/ - single html file. Keep an offline copy.

tsol 4y ago ↗

https://sadgrl.online/

A website modeled after the old web, complete with pixelly gifs, midi music, and fandom dedicated areas. It also leads to the nostalgic trip that neocities is-- an entire website for personal pages made in the image of geocities. Although I think this particular site is hosted on yesterweb. Try the webring!

onecommentman 4y ago ↗

You wonder if it isn’t time for a nostalgia-driven return to early webpage design led by the youngsters. Nostalgia kicks in after 25 years, and a return to the earlier designs is a simple way to fight against…whatever it is the Internet has become over the last 10+ years. It’s a very DIY sort of thing, and something for the Bay Area kids to consider.

user_235711 4y ago ↗

Two of my favorite bands have great and expansive websites. Because the bands are insanely prolific (Guided By Voices with their studio releases and Phish with their live recordings) I don't think I'll ever be able to visit every single page on either site.

https://GBVDb.com/

https://phish.net/

And for humor there's always the startup generator :) http://tiffzhang.com/startup/