Past Discoveries

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Epic
May 19, 2026

NASA Eyes on the Solar System — The Browser Tab Where You Can Fly Past Every Active Spacecraft, Planet, and Moon in Real Time

Free 3D web app from NASA showing real-time positions of every active spacecraft, planet, and moon in the solar system. Fly out to Voyager, ride along with Perseverance, scrub time forward and back.

Epic
May 18, 2026

Sofascore — The Free Scores App You Were Ignoring Is Deeper Than Everything Else, and It Covers 27+ Sports

Sofascore quietly goes deeper than every other scores app: 27+ sports, comprehensive league coverage, player ratings, and analyst-grade stats. Free, no login needed.

Epic
May 17, 2026

Blotter — The Live Map That Transcribes Police Radio Across 21 US Cities Into a Searchable Feed You Can Just Leave Open

Blotter maps AI-transcribed police-scanner dispatch across 21 US metro areas. Real-time, searchable, free. Leave it open in a tab.

Epic
May 16, 2026

Salad — The Two-Sided GPU Marketplace Where Gamers Rent Out Their Idle GPU and AI Startups Rent It Back for Pennies

Salad connects 60,000+ idle gaming PCs into a distributed GPU cloud. AI startups rent compute for $0.02/hour; gamers monetize idle GPU time. Two-sided marketplace with genuine economics on both sides.

Epic
May 15, 2026

CircuitMess — Open-Hardware Kits You Solder Together and Then Program to Show You Whatever Live Data You Want (Vibe Coding Era, Meet Your New Hobby)

CircuitMess builds open-hardware kits you solder together and program yourself. Open schematics, full firmware source, and vibe-coding agents that flatten the embedded-development learning curve. The door to custom hardware just came off.

Epic
May 14, 2026

Flow Free — The 14-Year-Old Mobile Puzzle My Dad Has Played Every Single Day (And the Quiet Secret of Why It Still Outlasts the Flashy Stuff)

Flow Free is a puzzle game where the mechanic is simple — connect matching colored dots with pipes that fill the entire grid without crossing. 250+ million downloads over 14 years. The rare mobile game that retains older players forever because it doesn't yell at you.

Epic
May 13, 2026

Tempest Weather System — The Best Personal Weather Station Out There (With One Caveat That Quietly Annoys Me)

Tempest is a solid-state personal weather station with no moving parts — ultrasonic wind, haptic rain sensing, lightning detection, and Nearcast AI forecast. Better hardware than Weather Underground devices. The closed-network ecosystem makes business sense and irritates me a bit.

Epic
May 12, 2026

Citizen — The App That Knows About the Siren You Just Heard Three Blocks Away

Citizen is a real-time community safety app that sends push notifications for incidents happening within a configurable radius of your location. 911-scanner audio aggregated into structured alerts, plus live video from people at the scene. Free, no credit card.

Epic
May 11, 2026

Two Free Apps That Tell You Where the Food Truck Is (And Which One I’d Open When I Want a Taco Right Now)

StreetFoodFinder shows you which food trucks are parked near you right now, with real-time schedules and menus. Truckster lets you hire a food truck for your next party. Both free. A direct comparison — and a clear pick for when the craving hits.

Epic
May 9, 2026

WiGLE.net — 658,000 Volunteers Have Been Driving Around With Antennas Since 2001. They’ve Now Mapped 1.7 Billion WiFi Networks.

Free public database of 1.7 billion GPS-tagged WiFi networks. Volunteer wardrivers log every signal they drive past — name, encryption type, exact location — and upload it all. Your router is almost certainly in it.

Legendary
May 8, 2026

Claude Code — The AI That Doesn’t Just Autocomplete Your Code, It Does the Whole Job

Anthropic’s AI coding tool reads your whole project, writes the files, runs the commands, validates the output, and deploys — all from one prompt. Not autocomplete. The whole job. This site was built with it.

Epic
May 7, 2026

Rip.so — The Digital Graveyard Holding Funerals for 80+ Internet Things You Forgot You Loved

A memorial website for 80+ dead internet services. AIM, Flash, GeoCities, Neopets, Google Reader — each gets its own tombstone, lifespan, and epitaph. The site itself is hand-coded in old-web style, with a literal marquee tag and a working guestbook.

Epic
May 6, 2026

Stellarium Web — The Free In-Browser Planetarium That Lets You See the Exact Sky Above You at Any Moment in History (Or Any Future Date You Pick)

A free in-browser planetarium built on 25 years of open-source astronomy software. Open it, allow location, drag the time slider — the sky recomputes in real time for any date in history or the future. No install, no login.

Rare
May 5, 2026

AAA Gas Prices — The Free Daily Gas Tracker That Doesn’t Want Your Location, Your App Install, or Your Phone Number

Free daily national, state, and local gas price averages for all 50 states — no app, no login, no location tracking. Includes a fuel cost calculator for road trip planning. Same data as GasBuddy, none of the spying.

Epic
May 4, 2026

Snake.io — The Multiplayer Version of the Nokia Game You Played to Death in 1999

The classic Nokia Snake from 1997 — eat, grow, survive — now in a real-time arena with players worldwide. Cut off other snakes to end their run. No login, no install. Browser + iOS + Android. Free.

Epic
May 2, 2026

TankerMap.com — The Free Live Map of Every Oil Tanker on Earth (And Why the Persian Gulf Is About to Look Very Different)

A live AIS tracking map of the global tanker fleet. Click any vessel for name, flag, cargo type, origin, destination, and speed. Filters by vessel type, region, and cargo state. Free, no login.

Epic
May 1, 2026

Pudding.cool — The Data-Journalism Site Where Every Story Is a Custom Interactive Visual Essay

Independent data journalism where every article is a fully custom interactive visual essay. No templates, no listicles — they pick a question, gather the data, and build the whole thing from scratch. The chart and the story are the same thing.

Epic
April 30, 2026

Wanderboat — The AI Local Guide That Knows Where to Eat, What to Do, and Where the Hidden Gems Are (And Builds the Itinerary For You)

Chat-based local guide and trip planner. Ask it like a local friend who knows every city — restaurants, hidden gems, personalized day-by-day itineraries. 2M users, 10,000+ community trip plans, offline mode. Web, iOS, Android. Free.

Epic
April 29, 2026

Domainiac — The AI Domain Name Finder With an Insane Mode (and It Actually Works)

AI domain name finder with an Insane Mode for unconventional, surprisingly-good suggestions. Swipe-to-train interface, real-time availability + live pricing across GoDaddy / Namecheap / Dynadot, and a chat assistant called Talk to Dom. Free to try.

Epic
April 28, 2026

Our World in Data — The Free Oxford Research Project That Has a Beautiful Chart for Every Problem on Earth

Hundreds of fully interactive, deeply sourced charts on every long-run global trend — climate, poverty, health, war, energy, education. Run out of Oxford, free to read, share, embed, and download.

Epic
April 27, 2026

On3 Transfer Portal — The Free-Agent Wire for College Sports (With NIL Price Tags Attached)

College sports has a free-agent market now. On3's Transfer Portal tracks every player who enters — with NIL price tags, player rankings, team transfer grades, and a constantly updated wire of commits and offers. Free.

Epic
April 26, 2026

Flightradar24 — See Every Flight in the Air Right Now, For Free

A free live map of every commercial flight in the air worldwide. 200,000+ flights/day, 58,000+ volunteer ADS-B receivers, click any plane for callsign, aircraft type, altitude, and route.

Epic
April 25, 2026

Every Noise at Once — A Clickable Map of Every Music Genre That Exists (With a 30-Second Sample for Each)

A scatter-plot of every music genre Spotify has ever catalogued — roughly 6,000 of them — each with a 30-second sample. The scan feature plays through an entire genre one artist at a time in 60 seconds.

Epic
April 24, 2026

Home Assistant Green — The $99 Box That Lets You Own Your Smart Home

A $99 plug-and-play hub that runs your entire smart home locally — no Amazon, no Google, no subscriptions. 1,000+ integrations, 2M+ active users, automations that keep working even when the internet doesn't.

Rare
April 23, 2026

The Cheerwine Festival — A Free 100,000-Person Street Party for a 109-Year-Old Cherry Soda

A small NC city throws one of the biggest free street festivals in the South every May — all to celebrate a cherry soda that's been made there since 1917. Music, themed food, beer garden, six-figure crowd.

Legendary
April 22, 2026

Radio Garden — I Built This in 1998. Now the Whole World Has It.

Spin a 3D globe, click any glowing dot, hear live local radio from that city. 30,000+ stations, 190+ countries, no login. The forerunner was a 1998 Windows shareware app called EarthTuner.

Epic
April 21, 2026

Laufey — The Icelandic-Chinese Jazz Singer Who Keeps Winning Grammys

Berklee-trained cellist with an Icelandic father and Chinese violinist mother. Two Grammy wins in a row for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Three albums, 26 years old, pulling Gen Z into bossa nova.

Epic
April 20, 2026

MoneyPuck.com — The Free Site That Runs 20,000 Playoff Simulations a Day So You Know the Real Odds

Free NHL analytics site that runs 20,000 Monte Carlo simulations of every playoff series every day. Live win probability, expected goals, power rankings. Free, no ads, no paywall.

Epic
April 19, 2026

Peter Zeihan — Daily Geopolitics Explainers from an Ex-Stratfor VP in Colorado

A Colorado-based geopolitical strategist posting near-daily short YouTube explainers on wars, trade, energy, and demographics. Free newsletter, four books, one NYT bestseller.

Epic
April 18, 2026

Wispr Flow — The AI Dictation Tool That Auto-Edits Your Rambling Into Clean Writing

Voice-to-text AI that speaks at ~220 wpm and auto-edits the filler and umms into polished prose. Works across Slack, Gmail, VS Code, Notion, Zoom, and 50+ more apps.

Epic
April 16, 2026

Agenda Free TV — A Former SNL Writer Runs One of YouTube's Biggest Independent News Channels

Independent 24/7-style live breaking-news on YouTube run by former SNL and Seinfeld writer Steve Lookner. Long-form, no ads, no paywall, chat read on air.

Rare
April 17, 2026

Lessie AI — Describe Who You're Looking For and the AI Finds Them

Natural-language people search across 100+ data sources (LinkedIn, X, GitHub, podcasts, more). Describe the person you want and the AI finds them. Free tier.

Epic
April 14, 2026

Submarine Cable Map — See Every Undersea Cable Carrying the Internet

A free interactive map of every undersea fiber cable that carries the global internet. ~99% of intercontinental traffic flows through these wires.

Epic
April 13, 2026

Windy.com — The Weather Site That Makes TV Radar Look Like PowerPoint

Free interactive global weather visualization with animated wind particles, radar, satellite, pressure, waves. Runs the same forecast models the pros use.

Rare
April 12, 2026

Roam: Day and Age — The Puzzle Game Where One Wrong Move Collapses Everything

Pure logic puzzle game where one wrong move collapses your entire attempt. Daily global challenge mode like Wordle for spatial logic.

Epic
April 11, 2026

Masters.com Live Shot Tracker — Follow Every Shot at Augusta in Real Time

Free real-time GPS shot tracking for every player at the Masters. Aerial hole views, trajectories, distances, club selection.

Rare
April 10, 2026

DailyPuck.com — Hockey News, Read to You Every Day

Daily NHL audio podcasts for all 32 teams, organized by division. Live scores, standings, player stats, and game odds. Free.

Epic
April 9, 2026

Mistral Voxtral TTS — Open-Source Voice AI That Fits on Your Phone

Mistral's free, open-weight text-to-speech model. 9 languages, ~70ms latency, runs on a phone.

Legendary
April 4, 2026

Ryan Hall, Y'all — The Internet's Weather Man

3.2M subscribers, live storm streams, a phone alert service, and $213K+ raised for disaster relief.

Epic
April 3, 2026

Perchance AI — Free AI Image Generator

Completely free, no sign-up AI image generator with tons of styles. The easiest way to play with AI art.

Rare
April 2, 2026

DailyAudio.com — Your News, Read to You

Free audio news with 14,500+ episodes, 10 categories, speed controls, and full transcripts.

Legendary
April 1, 2026

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