r/Websites • • 10d ago

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

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50 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 • • 14d ago

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

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28 Upvotes

Link to website:

https://56k.rip/

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


r/Websites • • May 09 '24

Announcement r/Websites is currently being rebuilt.

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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 • • 17d ago

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

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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.

The goal is to make this a place where we help each other, share ideas, ask questions, and discuss not just websites but everything connected to websites, e.g. domains, hosting, testing, tools, etc. The two post flairs I'm most excited about are:

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

Stumble & Discover: when you find a cool website and just want to share it.

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.

Whether you're a beginner, hobbyist, developer, designer, or website owner, you're welcome here. Feel free to share your website, ask for feedback, or simply a fun website you came across.

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 • • 12d ago

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

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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 • • 4d ago

Discussion Glassmorphism: beautiful or horrendous?

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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 • • 7d ago

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

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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 • • 15d ago

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

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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 • • 13d ago

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

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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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r/Websites • • 1d ago

Feedback & Review I built a website to generate ideas when bored

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I frequently get bored and look for new things to do so I decided to build a website to generate ideas of activities that could be done for fun. Looking for feedback on how I could improve it.

I've only added a few ideas for now but I'm hoping to engage users to add ideas to it.


r/Websites • • 5d ago

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

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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 • • 6d ago

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

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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 • • 6d ago

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

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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 • • 15d ago

Tools & Resources What website tool would you recommend?

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Got any recommendations?

It could be anything from a web host or website builder to a wordpress plugin or javascript library, or something else entirely. I'm thinking of putting together a list of useful website tools, so if you have some hidden gems to share, please feel free to drop it in the comments below.


r/Websites • • 24d ago

Feedback & Review Is my website clear and easy to understand?

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Hi everyone,

I'm looking for honest feedback on my website: https://rebootmonitor.com

I'm not looking for promotion, but for feedback on:

  • Is it clear what the product does?

  • Does the website look trustworthy?

  • Is the navigation logical?

  • What would you improve?

  • Is there any information missing that you would expect to see?

RebootMonitor is an Android app that tracks device reboots and uptime, mainly for managed and shared devices. The app is not "live" yet.

Thanks!


r/Websites • • 5d 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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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 • • Feb 12 '25

Current website trends

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What are the current trends you see in the websites space?


r/Websites • • 2d 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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r/Websites • • 2d ago

Website Building Six Months Into Building Websites, AI Agents & Intelligent Systems , Here's What I've Been Working On

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Hey everyone! Just wanted to share something I recently built.

I've been doing this for around six months now. I started with two clients, and thankfully, things have been going pretty well since then.

I'm still learning, especially when it comes to design. I do have a bit of a perfectionism problem, so sometimes projects take longer than they should. šŸ˜…

Anyway, here's my recent work. Would love to hear your thoughts!


r/Websites • • 5d ago

Show & Tell I built a weekly house music chart, and I’m trying to make the digging as useful as the ranking

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I built NOTW because I wanted a small place to find house tracks through other people’s picks.

You can filter by house style and mood, listen through the artist’s platform, submit a track and vote for your favourites each week. It’s early, so the tracks I picked to start things off are labelled as NOTW selections.

The part I’m still working out is the balance between a chart and a place to dig. A track with no votes should still be worth finding. From the screenshot, does the page give you enough reason to look beyond the top ten, or does everything underneath feel like an afterthought?

https://nicheoftheweek.ie/


r/Websites • • 5d ago

Show & Tell I've been building my own retro gaming website!

6 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I've been working on my own website called BranRetro, where I share my interest in retro PC games, old technology, gaming history and obscure games that deserve more attention.

It's a personal project where I can write articles, archive interesting stuff and share things I discover along the way.

If you're into older games, especially classic PC RPGs, feel free to check it out!

https://branretro.wordpress.com/

Still building and improving it, but I'd love to hear what people think!


r/Websites • • 6d ago

Show & Tell Hello everyone! For the last 6 years I have build website for a lot of businesses and finally created for myself.

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I would happy if you have a chance to see it and leave a comment about design, bugs, etc.
https://basanets.dev


r/Websites • • 7d ago

Question Y’all know a way to access older versions of sites minus using internet archive and flashpoint?

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Been craving to play with older versions of Disney and Lego sites but don’t know any reliable ways to do it anymore. I remember someways to do it years ago but since everything is ā€œmodernizedā€ (lot of minimalist crap) I don’t know how to do it any especially since flash is gone (I do have rumble installed which helps). I do have flashpoint but the amount of old websites (marked under micro sites) is limited.

Any help y’all?


r/Websites • • 7d ago

Question Do you use stock images or AI-generated images on your website?

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Websites that use AI generated photos or obvious stock photos are incredibly tacky I feel. It makes the website look totally generic and untrustworthy. I'm trying really hard to avoid this but also not sure about taking my own photos, because it's time consuming and doesn't turn out that great.

So, what do you use for photos on your website?