Single Serving Websites: Get One Thing Done… “Well”
A collection of websites focused on doing some fairly specific things, and doing them… well? Some of them are pretty niche, some are just fun, and others might get quite a bit of regular usage from some of us. Feel free to recommend more in the comments!
Midway Meet Up
Find places where all of your friends can meet up and display them on the map. Enter the starting location for each member of your group, one at a time. Ten, enter the type of place you’d like to go (‘coffee’, ‘movie theater’, ‘Italian food’, etc.) and click Go!
Just Delete Me
Account deletion processes for hundreds of sites, along with rating of just how difficult it may be, and any notes available.
Fast, Good, Cheap
The adage that you can “only pick two” is still lost on a lot of people. This page helps them understand and choose which they want.
Work From
Discover great spaces to work from in cities everywhere.
How Many People Are in Space Right Now?
The number of people in space at this moment, name, and number of days they have been in space this time.
GeoGuesser
Load an “street view” image and you try to guess where in the world it is. Single player and challenger mode. Points based on how close your guess was to the actual location.
Goodbye John Doe
Tired of using “John Doe” as a placeholder name? This site generates surprising good, bad and interesting alternatives.
My Noise
Ambient sound, white noise, natural sounds, man made environments, and more.
Forvo
Searchable pronunciations of millions of words in hundreds of languages by fluent/native speakers. Much nicer than the “robotic” pronunciations on many reference sites.
Get Lorem
Yet another Lorem Ipsum generator so you can create placeholder text for various projects… and then explain to clients that it isn’t Latin or a bug.
Future Timeline
Remember those sometimes prophetic, sometimes hilarious future predictions clippings from newspapers and magazines of the past? Read what these guys think will happen in the future, from next year to 1 million years.
20 Limit
The Oxford Guide to Plain English recommends a sentence length of between 15 and 20 words. 20 Limit helps people write sentences by limiting the number of words to 20. Users can type directly into the prompt or copy-and-paste.
Super Cook
Enter the meager ingredients of your pantry and kitchen, and this site will desperately try suggest a recipe without you having to go to the grocery store.
Amazon Shipping Filler
Enter the dollar amount you need to qualify for Amazon’s free shipping and this site will make suggestions.
Ninite
Setting up a new computer or reinstalling a new one? Choose from a selection of common applications and Ninite will build you a bulk installer.
Down For Everyone or Just Me
Can’t get to a website? Find out if it is your ISP or office blocking it, just flaky, or is it actually a site outage?
Can You See Me?
A free utility for remotely verifying if a port is open or closed. It is useful to users who wish to verify port forwarding and check to see if a server is running or a firewall or ISP is blocking certain ports.
Emergency Compliment
Megs Senk created Emergency Compliment to make people feel a little bit better. She writes and designs everything while Nate Beatty codes and does fancy internet stuff to everything.
Free My PDF
Use this site to remove passwords and restrictions (such as printing, copying text, etc.) from PDFs.
Arbitrary Award
Born out of the disillusionment witnessed in the workplace at how awards weren’t merit-based but were bought by the company dollar, we decided to make our own awards that you don’t have to pay for…unless, of course, you want to.
Sunsets From Around the World
“Right this second, the sun is setting somewhere in the world. And you can catch a glimpse right here! We’ve compiled photos taken by photographers across 24 locations to reveal what the sunset looks like across the globe.”
Balloon Earth
Mashes up aerial photography, satellite imagery and real time weather imagery to generate a hot air balloon perspective over various cities around the world.
This to That
When you absolutely have to know what your best options are for gluing one substance to another.
Bonus Site… Cat Bounce
Do yourself a favor and have your headphones on and click “Make it Rain”
