Cool Tools – Matt Haughey, Creator of Metafilter
A shortlist of awesome tools by Matt Haughey.
Cool Tools – Matt Haughey, Creator of Metafilter launched on January 28, 2016 with 62 votes, #1,477 of 4,522 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
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Cool Tools is a curated collection of useful products and gadgets assembled by Matt Haughey, creator of MetaFilter. The site features items Haughey personally recommends based on his own experience, such as specialized kitchen tools and other everyday items. It is for people seeking vetted recommendations from an experienced curator rather than marketing-driven product listings. The standout aspect is that each recommendation includes detailed personal commentary explaining why the tool works well.
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Matt Haughey is the creator of MetaFilter, and the co-creator of Fuelly, among many other sites. He spends his free time shooting photos and also rides and races bikes. These days, he works on the editorial team at Slack. Belle-V Ice Cream Scoop , $50 “This is one of the few Kickstarters that showed up with big promise and totally delivered. It is easily the best thing for just rock hard ice cream that you just pull right out of the freezer .. [The handle] is just so beefy. It distributes all the force, and the angle of the scoop is right. All my other one feels the scoop is too far back … I’ve spent 5 years trying to find a perfect ice cream scoop, and this is the one for me.” Minaal…from kk.org
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