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The Internet Portal is a random website explorer that uses ICANN CZDS (Centralized Zone Data Service) data to warp users to unexpected websites. Launched in 2020, it's designed for people who enjoy internet discovery… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Internet Portal – Warp to a Random Website, Using ICANN CZDS Data launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A cool-as-shit dynamic traceroute powered by custom software, married with an informative article about how the BGP routing protocol works and guides the shape of the Internet.

    2023 · how-did-i-get-here.net · its alternatives →

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    10xlaunch▲798

    Get 10x more users from same website traffic

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Portal▲102

    A tiny editor portal inside your browser

    2020 · portal.devsync.co · its alternatives →

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    2019 · randomsite.lhackworth.com · its alternatives →

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    Your Gateway to the Distributed Web. Contribute to PACTCare/Dweb.page development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Portal▲181

    Hey HN, I'm Zach, founder of Portal. Portal lets you share a live sandbox browser session as a link. Try it here: https://www.makeportals.com/try Instead of asking someone to sign up, install software, or book a demo for user research, onboarding, or sales, you send a link and they interact with the real product in a sandboxed browser environment, then you get session replays. Each viewer gets a fresh remote browser instance that starts from a defined state (URL, cookies, extensions, local files, etc). Sessions are isolated and expire automatically. The sessions have…

    Feb 2026 · makeportals.com · its alternatives →

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    A gateway to a new, decentralized internet

    2017 · blockstack.org · its alternatives →

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    NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.

    2019 · nextdns.io · its alternatives →

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    My company launched a new open source web browser built on Chromium. It supports decentralized domains on Handshake and is the first browser to support .eth DNS. It is also the first browser to support secure web browsing with DANE. Check it out: https://impervious.com/beacon https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    MetaMask▲332

    Brings Ethereum to your browser

    2017 · metamask.io · its alternatives →

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    Find information, resources and relevant links for randomstartup.org. This domain may be for sale.

    2014 · randomstartup.org · its alternatives →

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    I built this tool because I wanted a way to just take a bunch of URLs or domains, and query their content in RAG applications. It takes away the pain of crawling, extracting content, chunking, vectorizing, and updating periodically. I'm curious to see if it can be useful to others. I meant to launch this six months ago but life got in the way...

    2024 · embedding.io · its alternatives →

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    Click a button, find a useful website

    2015 · randomusefulwebsites.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been a bit obsessed with the idea of flipping through the internet a bit like you would a magazine, of undirected browsing as a discovery mechanism, and I think I'm approaching something that's beginning to feel pretty fun. The link at the top will return results out of a pool of approximately 10,000 domains, you can refresh to get new ones. You can also explore in a directed fashion by using the 'Similar Domains'-buttons. These are not random. A sampler, beyond the random sites offered with the head link https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/www.amiga-news.de…

    2022 · search.marginalia.nu · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted analytics with session replays, heatmaps & more.

    2020 · 66analytics.com · its alternatives →

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    No-code webapp to visualize your deep neural nets

    2021 · datature.io · its alternatives →

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    Pull the lever and land on a random website submitted by a real person. No algorithms, no AI slop — just internet serendipity since 2017.

    2017 · urlroulette.net · its alternatives →

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    I'm launching Wirewiki.com today! Wirewiki makes the internet’s hidden infrastructure browsable. I quit my job 5 years ago to scale Nslookup.io. But after reaching 600k monthly users, I hit a ceiling. I couldn't naturally expand beyond DNS because of the domain name. So I went back to the drawing board: how would I make it today? Not as a collection of tools, but as a browsable graph. I've spent hundreds of hours and commits building that. It's not even at 10% of what I want it to be, but more than enough to be useful, and (in my biased opinion) much better than what's out there. Wirewiki…

    Feb 2026 · wirewiki.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been building a lot of landing pages and small sites lately, and i wanted analytics on them. Google analytics was the obvious first option, but i didn't want it for privacy reasons. Also, some privacy blockers block them. Plausible was the next best thing, but having a VPS for sites which that doesn't get too much traffic, felt too much. So i built Edgemetry. Its a worker, a bit of frontend, and a D1 database. Everything runs in Cloudflare's free tier. If you've got a site that doesn't get ton of traffic but you still wnat to see your visitors and their actions, give it a go.

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Atlas is the AI-native GIS. Build maps, dashboards, and spatial workflows from a conversation — GIS-grade analysis, accessible to your whole team. Trusted by energy developers, asset managers, and field operations teams.

    2024 · atlas.co · its alternatives →

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    Realtime web data for LLMs

    2023 · its alternatives →

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