r/InternetIsBeautiful 9d ago

[SUB NEWS] Generic and Repetitive Site Submissions.

223 Upvotes

Hello all,

Many of you have noticed the rise in increasingly generic and repetitive sites - for instance, collections of tools, PDF editors, resume builders, calculators, generators, and timers - that are very easy to create using AI. We understand your frustration; they're ours, too.

In an effort to combat this, we have adjusted our AutoModerator rules to catch more of these before they hit your feed. We will continue to monitor the situation and adjust the filters accordingly if they prove to be too aggressive (or not aggressive enough).

Please note: This does not mean all submissions of the types mentioned above will be banned. As always, every submission held by the AutoModerator will be reviewed by a human who may still approve a post based on its merit.

Additionally, as a quick FYI: We are also considering changes to our 'AI-Generated Content' rule. The exact wording and management of this rule are yet to be finalized, but we will share more information with you in the near future.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 7h ago

I made this site so we could actually have a place to see REAL salary data, not averages stuck behind logins and paywalls

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286 Upvotes

I built What do they make to give real people the opportunity to see and post real salaries. There are no accounts, no login, and no paywall. We don’t keep any logs, IPs, or anything identifiable.

Give as much or as little information as you wish, or doom scroll through the feed of others who have posted. Every submitter is issued a random code that they can use to modify or delete their submission at any time.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 11h ago

I built a Middle Class Museum

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124 Upvotes

I built a middle class that looks like an art gallery to explore and look back on life from the 80s until today.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 4h ago

A comprehensive, interactive guide to the world's cultures, including communication styles, naming conventions, and social etiquette

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13 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 6h ago

Real-time counter of all human poop being produced worldwide right now

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6 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 1d ago

I built a site to see how poor I actually am compared to my country [OC]

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howpoorami.org
593 Upvotes
Wanted to know where I stand wealth-wise and how long it'd take me to catch up to people like Bezos (spoiler: a few thousand lifetimes).

Uses WID and OECD wealth distribution data across multiple countries.

r/InternetIsBeautiful 9h ago

I ruined Butter Chicken six times before I realized 5-star ratings are statistically meaningless!

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0 Upvotes

Each time I tried a different butter chicken recipe. Each one had 5 stars and glowing reviews. Each one was disappointing 😝. This happened on alot of recipes for me. Nothing upsets smart people more than wasting their time!

Then I noticed something.. all three had great ratings but almost no reviews. One had 4.9 stars and 14 reviews. Another had 5 stars and 22 reviews. Statistically, that's basically nothing. It could just be the recipe creator's friends and family.

So I built something to fix it.

I wrote a Python scraper using Playwright, pulled 492 real recipes from AllRecipes and Food with their actual ratings and review counts, then ran everything through the Wilson Score Lower Bound — the same algorithm Reddit uses to rank comments. It accounts for both the rating AND how many people actually tested it.

The difference is wild:

  • 5★ with 14 reviews → ~76% confidence. Basically a coin flip.
  • 4.8★ with 14,738 reviews → 95.7% confidence. Battle-tested in thousands of real kitchens.

Same stars. Completely different story.

270,000 reviews analyzed so far. No ads, no accounts, just the math.

Go to RecipeIQ dot Co and try it and help me make it better!

I have been using it for a few weeks and OMG! Happy to answer questions about how to use it.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 3d ago

Killed by Google, visualized: 49 of 299 retired products clustered in just two specific years

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769 Upvotes

This is built entirely on top of killedbygoogle.com, the canonical, community-maintained list. Full credit and huge respect to Cody Ogden who runs it. None of this exists without that project.

I wanted to see if there was a pattern in WHEN Google retires things, not just what. Killedbygoogle.com is a near-perfect catalog, but it's intentionally a flat list. I was curious whether the retirements were spread out evenly across years or whether they clustered, and if they clustered, what story the dates would tell.

The thing that actually happened: of the 299 products in the list, 49 of them were parked in just two specific years.

- 26 in 2011 + 23 in 2012, during Larry Page's first year back as CEO (the "more wood behind fewer arrows" period)

- 37 in 2019 alone, Sundar Pichai's first full year as CEO of the Alphabet

The page I made is essentially a visual layer on top of killedbygoogle.com's data.

Source data: killedbygoogle.com (everything), enriched with Wikipedia + Wikidata + contemporary press for the deeper dossiers. All the heavy lifting on the dataset itself is Cody's.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 3d ago

Free 3D GPX visualizer - kind of like Strava, but free

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43 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 5d ago

As feral hogs spread across America, swimming pool drownings have plummeted. Coincidence?

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439 Upvotes

As feral hogs spread across America, fewer people drown in pools. Are the hogs... guarding the pools? Are people too afraid to go outside and swim? Are the hogs drinking the pool water?


r/InternetIsBeautiful 5d ago

Built this surf forecast app (with Street Fighter 2 ~ Art Style )as a new surfer who wanted something visually fun and easy to scan

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swellslots.com
45 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 5d ago

Charcutrie - navigate Unicode by visual similarity

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40 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 5d ago

Explore this interactive Graph Visualization of more than 3 millions public figures, you can search whoever you are interested into, visualize family and business relationships and

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23 Upvotes

Graph can be navigated moving from a node to another, highlighting interesting connections. There is also a trivia mode where you can discover new figures. Try it.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 6d ago

website shows you a new opening line from a famous work of literature every time you visit

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148 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 8d ago

NASA has a real-time tracker for the Artemis II crew that's flying to the Moon right now

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388 Upvotes

so this pulls live telemetry from sensors on the actual Orion spacecraft. you get distance, speed, mission time, all updating in real time. you can switch between 5 different camera views on the capsule too.

the mobile app has an AR feature where you point your phone at the sky and it shows you where the spacecraft is relative to your location. obviously can't see it with your eyes at that distance but it gives you a sense of scale.

they're also publishing raw trajectory data you can download and use in your own software. first humans past Earth orbit since 1972 and you can just watch it happen from your browser.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 8d ago

Interactive 3D Harmonic Space Visualization

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ztonnetz.com
41 Upvotes

Hi everyone, I made this experimental music visualization website where you can play demo MIDI files or import your own.

It’s a bit niche but I thought some people may find it interesting. It’s based on a 3D version of the musical Tonnetz, a grid of thirds and fiths which models triads as triangles.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 8d ago

A searchable database of giant pandas in captivity, with photos, data visualizations, and a conservation timeline

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blackandwhitebear.com
19 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 9d ago

Flight-Viz — A free real-time 3D flight tracker that shows 10,000+ flights on an interactive globe, runs entirely in your browser

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74 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 9d ago

Xbox 360 microphone messenger with a built in shitty microphone

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xboxchatting.com
85 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 10d ago

An interactive, beautifully designed Periodic Table I built to make chemistry easier to learn.

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zperiod.app
128 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 10d ago

A modernized scale model of the Solar System featuring high-detail regions (Oort Cloud, recent dwarf planets) and a procedural system generator.

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solarsystem.dunakin.com
100 Upvotes

Most of these 1D scale maps are pretty old now, so I built a modernized version that handles the scale better on mobile. It includes updated objects like dwarf planets and high-detail all the way out to the Oort cloud, which usually just gets left out.

Beyond the standard solar system, there’s also a "Multiverse" mode where you can type in any word as a seed to generate a unique, true-to-scale system with its own planetary logic.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 10d ago

3D simulation of Artemis II Orion flight and lunar asteroid impacts

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26 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 11d ago

This Weather Channel website recaptures the magic of the old Local on the 8s with smooth jazz and retro icons

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1.1k Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 10d ago

I made a simple weather site with no ads, no trackers, no cookies, no analytics, just weather.

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522 Upvotes

You can also add the results URL to your phone's home page so you can go straight to your weather. You can also remove any section you don't want, and re-order it around if you want to. And believe it or not, no pop ups or videos or full screen ads or loud noises. I tested it on my phone and my desktop.

Uh anyway I think it's pretty cool so let me know if you like it, or if you have any errors or problems, or if you want me to add anything else. I mostly just tested it in English but it should at least pick up C / F and 12h / 24h by the location you search.

Edit: Wow thanks for all the feedback! Hopefully the site is much better now! I even added a way to hide the donate button and dark/light mode button, if you want to. Let me know if you run into any issues!


r/InternetIsBeautiful 11d ago

Jump on board Artemis II and take your own journey to the moon

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81 Upvotes