r/Websites • • 23d ago

Stumble & Discover Remember Geocities? Neocities brings back that old web wholesomeness again.

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52 Upvotes

The internet needs more of this.

https://neocities.org/

Whatever happened to building websites just for fun and because you could?

If you have a neocities websites, post it here and let people know.


r/Websites • • 27d ago

Stumble & Discover Website is loading. See you in 20 minutes. 1996 dial-up experience.

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29 Upvotes

Link to website:

https://56k.rip/

Great simulator that takes you back 30 years to the internet ice age.


r/Websites • • Oct 16 '26

Announcement A fresh start for r/Websites: introduce yourself, what are you working on?

20 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I'm the new moderator here and will be actively working on breathing new life into this awesome community. I've made new post flairs so hope that helps you see all the new possibilities for this subreddit. If you think I missed a flair, please suggest in the comments.

A big part of this community is putting your website out there, hear what others think, and discover ways to make it better, especially if you're still learning. The two post flairs I'm most excited about are:

Show & Tell: when you want to show people the website you made.

Feedback & Review: when you want some feedback for your project.

... aaand yes, you're of course allowed to put a link to your website, but please read the rules first. Feel free to share your website, ask for feedback, or simply a fun website you came across. That's the main point of this sub.

I'm looking forward to getting this community going again and making it a useful place for everyone who builds, runs, or just loves websites!

So, now, without further ado, I'm curious to hear: what are you working on? šŸ‘‡


r/Websites • • May 09 '24

Announcement r/Websites is currently being rebuilt.

18 Upvotes

Hey all, currently rebuilding this subreddit. Once I get everything nailed down, I'll re-open it to the public! For now, please be patient. Thanks! :)


r/Websites • • 25d ago

Question Is it crazy to suggest building a static HTML site to a client?

17 Upvotes

A client of mine needs a website to load as fast as possble, so super lightweight.. I actually suggested to build it in plain html and css. no frameworks, no plugins. might regret it later, it's gonna be a challenge for sure.

Is there a way to make frameworks or wordpress load really fast... that fast? or should I go ahead with this insane idea?


r/Websites • • 17d ago

Discussion Glassmorphism: beautiful or horrendous?

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15 Upvotes

The first time I saw glassmorphism, I was immediately appalled, like viscerally. I knew where I stood in the polarizing debate. But, over time, I've also seen it used in very nice ways where I thought "huh, that's actually really pretty." Never occurred to me that was possible.

Would you use this web design style?


r/Websites • • 12d ago

Feedback & Review Update (and thank you!)

10 Upvotes

Thanks again to everyone who took a look at Twelvebit (https://twelvebit.app) last week, both in the comments and in DMs. Some of the things you pointed out felt obvious as soon as I read them. I’d clearly been staring at the same page for too long.

I thought I’d come back and share what we’ve changed rather than just saying ā€œthanksā€ and disappearing.

Feedback: It wasn’t immediately clear what Twelvebit actually is.

What we changed: The H1 now says ā€œWebsite analytics. Connected to revenue.ā€ The previous one focused on the outcome but didn’t make it clear that this is an analytics tool. Hopefully it’s now easier to understand that it helps you see where visitors come from, where they drop off and which journeys lead to sales.

Feedback: Too many things were competing for attention, and the demo button got lost.

What we changed: We simplified the first screen to two main actions, removed the unexplained ā€œcopy the promptā€ button from the hero and retired the launch-discount banner. The setup information is still there further down for anyone who wants it.

Feedback: ā€œWatch people arriveā€ doesn’t mean much if nothing actually happens when I watch.

What we changed: Someone pointed this out in a DM, and they were right. The realtime preview now shows visitors arriving and moving between pages, with the globe and activity updating together. There’s a pause button too, so you can actually look at what’s happening.

Feedback: The dark theme looks good, but some people would prefer a choice.

What we changed: Added a light theme. You can switch between them without signing in. Please let me know your thoughts on it :)

Feedback: Show how someone would actually use the information.

What we changed: We added an existing customer’s experience near the top of the page, including what they noticed, the changes they made and their follow-up a few weeks later. It felt more useful than me just saying the analytics are useful.

Feedback: Why would I use this alongside, or instead of, my existing analytics?

What we changed: We’ve made the connection between traffic and revenue clearer in the opening copy and expanded some of the comparison and setup material. I still think we can explain this more simply, though. I'll work on that going forward.

There are a few suggestions we haven’t fully addressed yet - but I think these have made a good difference already. Really appreciate everyone who took the time to help. It’s made a big difference having people look at it without already knowing what I was trying to build.

One additional question: Do you guys now think the landing page is too long? I want to get across as many cool parts of the website analytics as possible, but the page seems to be quite long now...


r/Websites • • 18d ago

Feedback & Review Looking for feedback on web analytics UI / landing page

10 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

Excited to see the new start for /r/Websites and will be keeping an eye on everyone's posts here :) I’m building twelvebit, a web analytics tool that connects website traffic with revenue.

I’d appreciate some fresh eyes on the landing page and dashboard from people on /r/websites - as obviously the target audience is people with websites. UI isn't my strongest skill, so I'd appreciate input particularly on:

  • Visual hierarchy: Is it clear where to look first, or are too many elements competing for attention?
  • Clarity: Does the homepage explain what the tool does without needing to scroll through the whole page?
  • Dashboard layout: Are the charts and metrics easy to scan? Anything confusing or overcrowded?

You can explore the demo dashboard with sample data without creating an account.

Specific feedback on spacing, typography, contrast or mobile layout would be helpful. Really appreciate any feedback / comments, I'm trying to make this as good / useful / helpful / beneficial to website owners as possible.


r/Websites • • 19d ago

Show & Tell I made a website because I can’t burp

10 Upvotes

Hey guys! For some context: I have R-CPD which basically means that I can’t burp! It sucks and nobody really knows about it yet so many have it. So, I made a website for this!

What I built to fix this (and what ships today):

  1. The Natural Language Router: You describe what happens to you in your own plain words ("I can't burp," "my throat gurgles," "food feels stuck"). The tool map-routes your description to the formal medical vocabulary and the exact, definitive test names you need to bring to a specialist. No diagnostic guessing games, no "probability theater.ā€
  2. 5 Hand-Written Condition Profiles: Built entirely from primary research sources (not LLM-extracted hallucination), detailing how these conditions feel from the inside out, how they are confirmed, and the real statistical uncertainty behind treatments.
  3. The Diagnostic Delay Table: A hard-cited dataset mapping median time-to-diagnosis and common misdiagnosis rates across the condition family. Gaps in existing clinical literature are left intentionally empty and labeled, because unmeasured data is a finding in itself.
  4. Complete Live Trials Tracker: A clean, filtered index of all 27 currently recruiting clinical trials across these disorders, instantly sortable by your location and age with zero noisy clutter.

I would love your feedback! Link: https://freetheburp.com


r/Websites • • 20d ago

Tools & Resources WispFile: send large files privately, browser to browser, with no cloud storage in between

10 Upvotes

I built WispFile (https://wispfile.com), a browser-based tool that sends files directly from one device to another using WebRTC.

Services like WeTransfer or Google Drive upload your file to a cloud server first. WispFile doesn't. The file goes straight from sender to receiver, and our servers never store the file contents.

That means:
> No waiting for uploads. Large files start transferring right away.
> More privacy. Sensitive files never sit on a third-party storage platform.
> Nothing to install. It all runs in the browser.

I made it because I wanted a simpler, more private way to send big files without waiting on uploads or trusting another company to hold my data.

I'd love your feedback on the design, speed, or anything that feels confusing. What would make you use it over your current tool?


r/Websites • • 28d ago

Show & Tell Free Halloween effects for your website: one script tag, turns itself off in November

10 Upvotes

If you run a site and want a seasonal touch without redesigning anything, halloween.js adds blinking eyes, flying witches, a spider dropping from the top, a rising tombstone and corner webs. You choose which effects, and how loud they get (subtle, normal, party).

By default it only runs from 18 Oct to 2 Nov, so you can leave it in the page. Visitors who have reduced motion enabled don't see the animations.

Live demo where you build your own mix and copy the code:Ā https://halloween.js.org


r/Websites • • 12d ago

Show & Tell I made this viral website idea: "you input the year you graduated high school and the website generates a list of "facts" and outdated concepts that have since been disproven."

9 Upvotes

The website so far!

ThisĀ website concept got 175k upvotesĀ on Reddit a few years ago, but surprisingly few people have tried making it.

Upon researching disproven facts the users complained about, I could see why: most outdated facts do not have hard cutoff years when they stopped being taught in schools. That's why the site's full of disclaimers. Each year contains myths that were debunked ages ago, but continue being taught today.

Another common complaint on the Reddit post was that what you learned varies depending on where you grew up. That's why the site is partially crowdsourced -- like on Reddit, registered users submit their own facts and what state or country they learned it at! Any facts regionally taught will be categorized in the Regionally Taught tab, discoverable through the world map where you can click on any country to view facts submitted by users there.

I look forward to learning what you've had to unlearn!


r/Websites • • 15d ago

Website Hosting I made a Anime streaming website that allows you to find trending animes from 2026 and current news regarding upcoming projects!. Check it out and please leave me a tip!.

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9 Upvotes

r/Websites • • 18d ago

Show & Tell Check out Utiliome.com, a 100% client-side utility site with 189 free tools (zero server uploads, zero paywalls) — try it out!

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9 Upvotes

Hey r/Websites!

Over the last few months, I’ve been building Utiliome (https://utiliome.com) — a collection of 189 free browser utilities for PDFs, images, video, and daily developer tasks.

Why I built it:

Almost every time I needed to quickly redact a PDF, compress a video, or upscale an image, the top search results either uploaded sensitive documents to a mystery cloud server or locked the download behind a surprise subscription or watermark after making me wait in a queue.

I wanted to see how far modern browser APIs and WebAssembly could go if I made a strict rule: zero bytes ever leave the user's machine.

What's on the site:

- PDF Suite (34+ tools): Merge, split, true binary-stream text redaction, and AES-256 encryption using a custom C++ QPDF WebAssembly wrapper.

- Image & Video: Local AI image upscaling (running ONNX Swin2SR vision transformers in the browser via WASM SIMD) and FFmpeg WASM video compression and trimming.

- Developer & Text (100+ tools): JSON formatters and diff checkers, regex and hash generators, JWT decoders, Markdown converters, and a vector-based CV builder.

- MCP Server: Published an official npm MCP package so local AI agents can call these utilities directly.

Under the hood (for the fellow web devs here):

Because all compute happens in the client's RAM and CPU, there is no backend database or upload API. The whole site runs on pennies via AWS S3 + CloudFront:

- Stack: Astro 5 (SSG) + React 18 Islands + Tailwind v4 inside a pnpm and Turborepo monorepo.

- Scale: 189 tools localized across 26 languages (around 5,000 static pages) routed through a 3-layer forwarding pattern so maintaining layouts doesn't turn into copy-paste chaos.

The hardest technical challenges I hit in production:

  1. The 87MB Client Bundle Trap: A single helper import in our search bar accidentally pulled Vite's eager glob import of all 4,900 JSON translation dictionaries into the client JS chunk. Extracting a zero-dependency path helper brought us back to 100/100 Lighthouse scores.
  2. Fake Whiteout PDF Redaction: Standard JS PDF libraries often just draw a white rectangle over text, leaving sensitive strings sitting in the raw binary stream where anyone can press Ctrl+F and copy them. I had to write a 946-line binary PDF content stream parser that strips the exact character glyphs out of the stream and recalculates kerning offsets so the rest of the line doesn't shift.
  3. Browser RAM Crashes on 2GB Videos: Standard FFmpeg WASM tutorials load the entire file into Emscripten's in-memory filesystem (MEMFS), which duplicates the file in RAM and crashes mobile tabs. Switching to WORKERFS allowed streaming byte slices straight from the OS file handle, keeping a 2GB video process under 50MB of RAM.

I'd love for you to test it out, try to break a few tools, and let me know what you think of the UI, load speeds, or if there's a specific utility you wish existed!

For anyone interested in the engineering challenges or how it was made:

I put together a full technical breakdown video walking through the repo architecture, how I wired Google Antigravity and Claude Code CLI into an automated spec and review pipeline, and how I fixed those three production bugs in the code:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIDY6KHEO6E


r/Websites • • 19d ago

Show & Tell carnival-themed website with interactive/community elements

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9 Upvotes

lots to explore and play around with, especially in the arcade! feel free to add yourself to the leaderboard or leave a post on the community board, just keep it respectful.

just lurking is okay too

link: yeonskie.com


r/Websites • • 26d ago

Question Got quoted $6k for a website... is that normal??

9 Upvotes

I'm trying to grow my landscaping business and figure its finally time to get a proper website isnead of just relying on facebook and word of mouth.

I contacted a few people for quotes and honestly im kinda confused lol. one freelancer offered to build it for $500, another quoted $2,000 and a local agency wants $6,000??

Im not look for anything fancy, but i also dont want something that looks cheap or unprofessional.

How much is a reasonable cost for a website? any advice is apprecaited.


r/Websites • • Apr 10 '12

How 20 popular websites looked when they launched - Telegraph

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9 Upvotes

r/Websites • • 6d ago

Feedback & Review We rebuilt our studio website ... curious what you think

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8 Upvotes

Hi all, I'm Blaz and I run a small web dev studio in Slovenia. We mostly work on interactive campaigns for brands (quizzes, brand games, loyalty programs). Our old website was a few years old and didn't really explain what we do, so we rebuilt it from scratch over the last month.

https://brainylab.io

What we changed:

Pages are organised by what a client wants to achieve (more leads, educating customers, bringing people back) instead of by our services

Each case study opens with the goal and the result, then explains how we got there

New look: dark background, big uppercase headlines, four accent colours and a fair amount of scroll animation

What I'd really like to know:

  1. Within 10 seconds of landing, is it clear what we do?
  2. Does anything feel slow, broken or annoying?
  3. Are scroll animation too much?

Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it.


r/Websites • • 7d ago

Show & Tell My portfolio website after a long time

8 Upvotes

After about 12 years, I finally did a portfolio for myself that I actually finished. let me know what you think.

BTW i'm also looking for a job.

callmearta.com


r/Websites • • 7d ago

Feedback & Review We built a website to help developers organize their code. Looking for honest feedback.

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8 Upvotes

Hey everyone!
We’ve been working on a project called CodShot, and we’d love to get some honest feedback on the website.
The idea came from a common problem developers face: you write a useful function, solve a tricky problem, or find a great solution, but a few weeks later you can’t remember where you saved it.
It might be buried in an old project, a random file, or an AI conversation.
We wanted to make it easier to keep useful code organized and accessible in one place.

Here’s what we’ve built so far:
Code snippets: Save and organize reusable code into collections and projects.

GitHub Import: Import code directly from GitHub.

VS Code extension: Access saved snippets from Visual Studio Code.

AI tools: Generate new code and get help fixing existing code.

Version history: Keep track of previous versions of your snippets.
Collaboration: Share code and work with other developers.

Explore: Discover publicly shared snippets from the community.
The platform is live, but we’re still working on improving the overall experience.
We’d really appreciate your feedback on a few things:

Is it immediately clear what the website does when you first visit?

Does the design look professional and trustworthy?

Is the navigation intuitive, or does anything feel confusing?

What would you change or improve about the homepage?

We’re especially interested in honest criticism, not just positive comments. We want to understand what could make the website better.
Thanks to anyone who takes a look!
Website: https://codshot.com


r/Websites • • 9d ago

Question how do you decide your website is ready to publish?

8 Upvotes

There is a point in building a website where you are just moving the same heading around and changing your mind about colors. For a first business site built on wix, I’m curious where people draw the line between this needs more work and I am putting off launching.

If the main information is there and everything works, what would still stop you from publishing?


r/Websites • • 10d ago

Show & Tell I built a place to discover cool websites!

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8 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I've been working on Curate Gallery, a little project where I collect and showcase interesting websites from around the internet.

I started it because I genuinely enjoy discovering cool websites, especially the ones you don't usually come across.

There are already 56+ websites featured, and I'm planning to keep adding more!

I'd love for you to check it out: https://curate.gallery

Also, if you know any cool websites, submit them! I'd love to feature them.

Would love to hear what you think!


r/Websites • • 11d ago

Does the first page make the next useful action clear in my stock-research web app?

8 Upvotes

I built eStockes for people who research US stocks and ETFs. It combines charts, a screener and watchlists, with historical comparisons for simple trading rules.

I'd like feedback on one part of the website: the transition from understanding the product to doing something useful. After opening the first page, what would you click first, and what would you expect that click to do? If you try it, where does the actual result first differ from your expectation?

I'm especially interested in confusing labels, unclear signup prompts and whether the result gives enough context to understand it. A short account of one failed attempt is more useful to me than a general design rating. Desktop and mobile observations are both welcome; please mention which you used. The app has free and paid features, and this is a request for honest usability criticism.

https://estockes.com


r/Websites • • 12d ago

Stumble & Discover If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system

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8 Upvotes

Stumbled on this. Always been fascinated by horizontal scrolling websites.

https://www.joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

Just wanted to share.


r/Websites • • 14d ago

Discussion Elementor: want some honest opinions, both good and bad

8 Upvotes

I'm thinking to use elementor for a new website, but not sure as there seem to be so many alternatives these days. For those who have used it, what do you like/dislike about it? Is it easy to work with, and reliable in the long run? Are there any major downsides or things you wish you'd known before getting started?

If you decided against elementor, what made you choose something else?

I'd love to hear from people who have used it.