What’s a surprisingly useful website you built (or stumbled upon) that actually solved a real problem for you?

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What’s a surprisingly useful website you built (or stumbled upon) that actually solved a real problem for you?

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  1. Unique-Magician-6632 Avatar

    I recently discovered this awesome website called “CamelCamelCamel,” and it’s totally changed the game for me when it comes to shopping. It’s an Amazon price-tracking site—doesn’t sound that thrilling, right? But just listen. You put in any product URL, and it shows you the price history, lets you set price drops for notifications, and essentially keeps you from being a victim of those sketchy “deals” when it’s sale time.

    I was trying to pick up a nice pair of headphones without breaking my budget, and this ended up saving me like $40 since I waited for an actual deal instead of diving into some inflated Black Friday craziness. And it’s weirdly satisfying to watch those price charts—essentially playing the stock market but for things you actually want.

  2. sunbearimon Avatar

    My favourite site is one called etymonline.com
    It solved the problem of me wanting to know the etymology of a lot of different words. English etymology is my Roman Empire

  3. willis7747 Avatar

    I created downr because I was tired of bloated downloader sites

  4. pokerchen Avatar

    Am science teacher and needed a simulation to help teach upper secondary/undergrd chemistry concepts like equilibrium, reaction rates, ideal gas laws, and stuff. Got frustrated with pHET and built one over two summers; have been using it since.

    …still sitting on GitHub pages though (2DChemistry) so it’s not on its own website.

  5. MegaTreeSeed Avatar

    Justtherecipe.com

    They have an app as well, but its exactly what you think, you paste a link to an online recipe and it pulls the recipe out of the paragraphs and pages of backstory and context. It’s just the recipe.

    I loved it so much I downloaded the app and pay for premium just to encourage the developer to stay in business.

  6. CaliPlant707 Avatar

    https://12ft.io
    Bypasses paywalls, ads and popups on sites like news sites.

  7. 89dpi Avatar

    Technically my co-founder built it. I designed and built the landing page.

    However Fiidbakk really helps us to build the product. Helps me with agency projects to gather client feedback or find bugs. So I am pretty sure that its pretty useful to every website or digital product owner.

    https://fiidbakk.com/

  8. stalinspetmongoose Avatar

    I’m a pretty big fan of tinywow.com . It has free image, writing, pdf, and video tools.