Hidden Gem
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Seven colored dots, each a scratchpad. The fastest way to capture a thought on your Mac without opening a new app.
Curate
theInternet
Curated by Jaisal, not an algorithm
Discover the very best
of the algorithm internet.
A growing collection of thoughtfully chosen websites, apps, and hidden gems — from the strange, charming, and overlooked corners of the web.
A project by Tiny Startup Studio
💻 Terminal
221 / 220
Autocomplete for your terminal. It works with 500+ CLI tools out of the box — git, npm, kubectl — and adds IDE-style suggestions to the command line you already use.
Reader Favorite
059 / 220
One button, infinite useless websites. Each click sends you somewhere completely pointless and somehow, unexpectedly wonderful.
Hidden Gem
163 / 220
A search engine that specifically surfaces small, independent, non-commercial websites — the kind Google buried a decade ago. A window back into the weird web.
Editor's Choice
153 / 220
A notepad where every line is also a calculator. Write '10 hours at $75/hr + GST' and it computes the total. Arithmetic as natural writing.
⚡ Productivity
201 / 220
Click through any process once and Scribe automatically generates a polished step-by-step guide with screenshots. A remarkable time-saver for writing SOPs.
Timeless
046 / 220
Paste code, choose a theme, get a beautiful shareable image. The canonical way to share code snippets on social media.
Timeless
102 / 220
Long essays on philosophy, science, and society — written by scholars, readable by anyone, and free without a paywall. The thinking person's tab.
Hidden Gem
138 / 220
Drag handles on a curve and instantly feel how your CSS animation will ease. Shows the curve, the resulting motion, and the cubic-bezier() value ready to paste.
📅 Scheduling
257 / 220
Open-source Calendly alternative. Connect your calendar, set your availability, share a link. Self-hostable for teams that don't want to pay per seat.
Hidden Gem
158 / 220
Create throwaway email aliases with one click. Give each service a different address — when one starts spamming, just delete the alias.
Top Pick
010 / 220
Documents and notes that feel like Apple designed them — fast, beautiful, and blocks that actually snap together satisfyingly.
Hidden Gem
053 / 220
Paste JSON and watch it bloom into an interactive node graph. Instantly see the structure that was hiding behind walls of brackets.
Hidden Gem
058 / 220
Move your cursor anywhere on the page and a photo of a real human pointing at exactly that spot appears. Inexplicably delightful.
Top Pick
159 / 220
Encrypted email, calendar, cloud storage, and VPN from a Swiss privacy company — all under one account. The alternative stack for people who mean it.
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Are.na
A quieter place to think on the web.
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Marginalia Search
Search engine for the small web.
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Posthaven
A blog promised to outlive you.
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Nownownow
What people are doing right now.
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§ Letter from Jaisal
The internet is full. We need editors, not algorithms.
Jaisal
Editor & curator
There's never been more on the web, and somehow it's never been harder to find anything that feels made for a person rather than a metric. Feeds optimize for engagement; search optimizes for ads; recommendation engines optimize for the median. Nobody, anywhere, is optimizing for delight.
Curate the Internet is a small attempt to fix that. Every site here was opened, used, and considered by a human being who is reasonably tired of what the rest of the web has become. We pick what we'd send to a friend — strange tools, lovely small apps, and pages that remind us the web can still surprise us.
If something we featured made your week better, tell a friend. If you've found something we should see, send it our way. That's the whole loop.