RESEARCH
Webmastery
“Webmastery” and “webweaving” are cool ways to describe web development from a hobbyist standpoint, so we like to use it here. The resources below are meant to be helpful to create your own website.
Accessibility
- Access Guide, a friendly introduction to accessibility
- Accessible Net Directory [not accepting new submissions]
- ANDI Accessibility Checker
- Accessible Palette
- Code for Accessible Components
- Color Contrast Tool
- Colour Contrast Checker
- The Contrast Triangle, a tool for checking text, link and background color contrast at the same time
- How to describe images, resource to learn how to write better text alternatives
- How Many People, tool to give you a better idea of how many people need accessibility options.
- NVDA, free and open-source screenreader
- Photosensitive Epilepsy Analysis Tool (PEAT), test websites and media to identify seizure risks
- RandomA11y, generates random color palettes that meet accessibility guidelines. You can lock one color in and generate options, too!
- The Ultimate Motherfucking Website: A Field Guide for Web Accessibility
- WebAIM Color Contrast Tool
- WAVE Accessibility Browser Extension
- Web Accessibility Checklist
- Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Quick Reference
- What I’ve Learned About Web Accessibility as a Dyslexic, Sighted, Mouse User
Beginner HTML and CSS Guides
- A Beginner’s Guide to HTML and CSS on Neocities
- The Cave of Dragonflies’ HTML Guide
- CSS Grid Garden, a beginner tutorial for CSS grids
- CSS Flexbox Froggy, a beginner tutorial for CSS flexbox
- david.qa: answers to your creative website questions, with layouts & a website-building quick start guides
- How to Flexbox by @manuelmoreale
- HTML Dog
- HTML for People
- HTML For Beginners The Easy Way
- An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid by Josh W Comeau
- Interneting is Hard, a beginner-friendly linear tutorial program
- Make Your Own Website by @ShannonKay
- MelonKing’s Introduction to the Web Revival Guide
- Mozilla’s Web Docs
- How to Structure Your Website Files by @purelyconstructive
- Shark Coder (archive link)
- Starting with HTML and CSS
- W3Schools HTML Tutorial
Beginner Javascript Guides
- Code Maven, an easy interactive tutorial
- Eloquent JavaScript
- You Don’t Know Javascript - Very good book series about JS that is online for free. Newer versions can be purchased in print.
Beginner Self-Managing & Server Guides
- everything i personally do when hosting a website on a new server
- VPS 101: Renting A Slice of A Computer on the Internet
- A Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting
- mala’s guide to self hosting
(Free) Blogging Platforms, Engines & Static-Site Generators
- Aurora, SSG created by @capjamesg
- Bear Blog, a blogging platform
- Bloggable, blogging platform for any Neocities site (including free accounts!) by @april
- Chyrp Lite, a PHP blogging engine similar to Tumblr
- Dreamwidth, an open-source LiveJournal alternative
- Eleventy, SSG
- Faircamp, Bandcamp platform alternative
- Gatsby, SSG
- HamsterCMS, content management system by @downgrade
- Hugo, SSG
- Jekyll, SSG
- Likho’s microblog.py, microblog generator created by @likho
- Makko, a Markdown-based, single-binary SSG designed for blogging
- Mataroa, a blogging platform
- Melonking’s Gallery Maker, an application that lets you easily create HTML photo galleries
- Midnight.pub, a blogging platform created by m15o
- Pagecord, an easy and minimalist blogging platform by @olly
- Phantomake, SSG created by Osmose
- Pika, a blogging platform similar to BearBlog
- Publii, a beginner-friendly, open-source, all-in-one WordPress alternative
- Simple page builder app, a WYSIWYG editor to export code and upload elsewhere
- Smol.pub, a blogging platform created by m15o
- Soupault, an SSG that doesn’t need templates or front matter
- Statamic, an independent blogging engine similar to WordPress
- Strawberry Starter, a simple markdown blog template
- W, a flat-file Wiki engine based on PHP by @vincent-peugnet
- Write.as, a minimalist blogging platform
- Write Freely, an open-source simple blogging platform
- Zola, a single-binary SSG
- Zonelets, a blogging engine made for Neocities but can be used everywhere
- Zoner, a drag-and-drop SSG based on Zonelets
Code Generators
- Class Adder Script Writer
- Flexbox Labs
- Gradientor - A minimalist, beautiful Radial Background Generator
- HTML5 Code Generators
- Image Map Maker
- JavaScript/SVG Linear Easing Generator
- nanogallery2 JS Photo Gallery Generator
- Responsive image map maker
- Web Design Assistant Code Generators
CSS Code Generators
- Clippy, a clip-path maker
- Background Generator
- Border Image generator
- Border Styling Generator
- border-radiusGenerator
- Boxshadow Generator(archive link)
- Broider, tool for designing simple embroidery-style CSS borders
- candy.css, CSS library with theme editor
- clamp()Calculator
- CSS Code Generators
- (More) CSS Code Generators
- CSS Code Generator Collection
- (Another) CSS Generator Collection
- Compound Grid Generator
- Custom Scrollbar Generator
- Fluid Type Scale Calculator
- Fluid Space Calculator
- Gradient Generator
- Gradient Text Generator
- Grid Generator
- (Another) Grid Generator
- Image Filter Generator
- Neumorphism Button/Box Shadow Generator
- Smooth shadow generator
- Transform Generator
Code Snippets
- 30 Seconds of Code’s CSS Snippets
- 33 CSS Radio Examples, copy & paste radio stylings
- 57 CSS Shapes Examples, copy & paste CSS shapes
- 65 CSS Checkbox Examples, copy & paste checkbox stylings
- 92 CSS Button Examples, copy & paste button stylings
- 95 CSS Drop Shadow Examples, copy & paste box shadow stylings
- Bechnokid’s resources, tutorials and code snippets
- BentoGrid.js, automatically positions elements in a responsive grid
- collectibles.js, hide collectibles across your website
- Dynamic Drive: JS & CSS Scripts[archive link]
- Dantendo DSi Tabs
- Filter divs using JS
- FreeFrontEnd, over 10,000 code snippets
- Font Selector Code, made by @punkwasp
- Kalechips’ code snippets
- Loveberry
- Modern CSS Code Snippets
- PageCrypt, password protect a page
- Updating Sidebar
- Updating Top Nav Bar
- Rainbow Color Palettes (uses HTML colors and hex codes)
- Retro CSS Frameworks for vintage website styling
- RV’s free Javascript/DHTML effects
- Script to make your site rainbow-coloured on keypress by @rmf
- Scripted, collections of code snippets
- Shenanigan’s Code Snippets
- SmolCSS
- Solaria’s Web Making Guides
- Wesource
Common Webmastery Issues
- Block the Bots that Feed “AI” Models Scraping Your Website
- Convert large blocks of text to html code
- Dark Visitors, a list of known AI agents on the internet that you might want to block
- Fine-tuning Text Inputs
- How to Center in CSS
- Mebi’s Eleventy, GitHub, and Neocities Tutorial
- Perfect Responsive Padding
- Prevent Pinterest interacting with your content
- px to rem - use scales to convert a pixel layout to a responsive unit
- Reset CSS Stylesheet to Normalize Styling Across Browsers [alternative: Import Normalize.css]
- RSS Guide — guide on making RSS feeds by hand. Only mentions Neocities but works outside of Neocities.
- Rules of Margin Collapse
- SVG Tutorial - Learn how to code images in HTML with SVG
- Test webpages on different screen resolutions
- What’s Wrong With Your Website? (archive link)
- Responsive Layouts Workshop - HTML is responsive by default. Don’t force it to be unresponsive!
Counters & Analytics
- Ackee, self-hosted Node.js app
- Aptabase, free up to 20k events/month
- Bearlytics, self-hosted by the creator of Bear Blog
- FC2Counter, free pageview counter
- GoatCounter, free pageview counter
- Insights, free up to 5k events/month
- Nullitics, €1/month flat fee
- Plausible, self-hosted version is free
- Rybbit, free up to 10k events/month
- Shynet, self-hosted and no JavaScript
- Simple Analytics, free up to 5 websites
- Umami, free up to 100k events per month for 3 websites
- SmallCounter - embeddable hit counter
Directories & Listings
Current and active directories and website listings for the small web.
- 250KB Club
- 512KB Club
- 1MB Club
- a-website-is-a-room.net
- about ideas now
- Accessible Net Directory
- Art Hive Studio website directory
- The Big List of Personal Websites
- blogroll.club
- BlogScroll - Personal Blog & Site Directory
- Brisray’s Indie Web Directories
- BUKMARK.CLUB
- Café Rosé
- Curlie
- Darktheme Club
- Directory | An IndieWeb Webring
- Dollmaker Listing
- Exploring the Personal Web, collection of directories and exploration paths by @arevakhach*(archive link)*
- FeDistricts, Districts but for the fediverse
- Hotline Webring[submissions are closed]
- the hyperlink café
- indieblog.page
- Indie Newsletters
- Indieseek.xyz
- i.webthings
- LinkLane.net
- linklings.club
- List-Me.com
- melanated
- MelonLand Surf Club
- Nekoweb Districts
- Neocities Neighborhoods
- nightfall.city
- No CSS Club
- The no-JS Club
- Non-profit bloggers
- ooh! directory
- Peelopaalu Directory
- personalsit.es
- Responsive Web Directory
- Sites with a /now page
- Sites with a /uses page
- Small World [archive link]
- Smooth Sailing Listings
- The Whimsical Web
- URL.town by omg.lol members
- XXIIVV Webring
- Ye Olde Blogroll
Guestbooks
- Atabook
- Baccyflap PHP Guestbook
- BellaBook PHP Guestbook
- Bravenet Guestbook
- Grounded Wren’s Guestbook (JavaScript)
- Kalechips’ PHP Guestbook
- Meadow’s Guestbooks
- SmartGB
- Ultraguest
- Website Goodies Guestbook
Domain Name Registrars
Most paid hosting offerings include an option for purchasing a domain, but if you want to just purchase a domain, these are some favorites:
Hosted Forms
- Formcarry, free tier
- Formkeep, free tier
- FormSubmit
- form.taxi, free tier
- GetForm, free tier
- HeroTofu, free tier
- HeyForm, free tier
- Letterbird, free tier
- Netlify Forms, free tier
- Pageclip, free tier
- Riku Forms, created by m15o
- Smartforms, free tier
- Tally, powerful free tier
- Web3Forms, free tier
- Youform, generous free tier
Hosted Services for Websites
- Catbox, a file hosting service
- Freeimage.host
- Giscus, comment system powered by GitHub Discussions
- HTML Journal, created by m15o
- omg.lol, a variety of services including profiles, weblogs, statuses, and more
- Postimage
- Status.Cafe Status Log, created by m15o
Indie Advertising Networks
Non-commercial projects only, usually.
- Bannerlink
- Melonland’s E-Link Banner Hub
- Translink
- Ringlink
- Neolink
- Navlink[submissions are paused]
- Sidelink
- Johnvertisements
- TabbyAds
(Free) Layouts & Themes
- 32-Bit Cafe’s Spring '25 Tea Party
- 5493’s Themes
- Almost Sweet’s Layouts
- anemptyblissbeyondthisworld - mobile responsive basic outlines
- Brennan’s SSG Blog Themes
- Cepheus’ Layouts
- Cinni’s Layouts
- CreateBlog’s Website Templates
- Dynamicdrive Layouts
- Eggramen’s Layouts
- Fool Lovers Layouts (Use a translator!)
- France’s Layouts
- Houdini’s Layouts
- HTML5 Templates
- HTML Portfolio Template
- Janisites Layouts
- Kalechips Layouts
- Moxie Moshpit’s Layouts
- Owl’s F2U Website Templates
- Palemomos
- Petrapixel’s layout generator
- Rarebit Webcomic Layout
- Repth’s Layouts
- Ribo.zone’s Layouts
- Sadgrl Premade Templates
- Templaterr’s Layouts
- Teppy’s Layouts
- Tess is a Mess
- Themeking’s Layouts
- Wasp’s website templates
- Wish Glows’ Anime Graphics & Layouts
- Xandra’s Layouts
- Xo’s Premade Layouts, based on decades (90s, 00s, 10s)
- Your Creative Blog Website Tutorials & Freebies
- one of numbpilled’s free html themes (here and there!)
- numbpilled’s ko-fi with more free themes throughout
Layout Makers
- CSS Layout Generator
- Lynn’s Layout Genrator
- Petrapixel’s Layout Generator
- Sadgrl’s Layout Maker
- Varve’s Layout Maker by @varve
Text Cliques & Clubs
Staff Note: There are a lot of text cliques across the independent web and would be a bit overwhelming to include here. Instead of linking to individual text cliques, these link to collections, directories, and compilations of text cliques.
- Cliqued!
- Clique Link
- Project Clique
- Reef Mini-Cliques
- Tricky Fox Cliques
- Petrapixel’s List of Text Cliques
Fanlistings
(Free) Webhosts
- Kalechips’s Web Hosts reviews
- Pixelshannon’s Free Web Hosts reviews
- Codeberg Pages
- Github Pages
- HelioHost (free)
- Hot Glue, webhost & visual tool to create websites
- Ichi.city, made by m15o
- InfinityFree (free tier, 5GB, supports PHP and MySQL)
- Leprd.space (application-based, up to 5GB, supports PHP)
- Marigold Town, town-themed webhosting created by @xandra
- mmm.page (free tier, drag & drop web builder!)
- Neocities (free tier, up to 1GB)
- Nekoweb, a free and donation-tier Neocities alternative
- Netlify (generous free tier!)
- Reocities.xyz, a Neocities clone
- Slashpage (in beta)
- Sourcehut Pages
- Straw.page (free tier, drag & drop web builder!)
- Web 1.0 Hosting, old web hosting with 100MB initially and built-in CMS, created by @downgrade
- W3Schools’ Spaces (free tier, 20MB, 500 hits per month, learn-as-you-go!)
(Paid) Webhosts
Staff Note: It is recommended to avoid EIG Hosting companies, services and brands.
- Dreamhost (starts at $2.59/month)
- Hetzner (starts at €2.09/month)
- Hostinger (starts at $2.99/month, with regional pricing for different countries)
- NearlyFreeSpeech (pay-as-you-go)
- Teacake (starts at $2/month)
- Uberspace (starts at €5/month)
Creating, Managing, and Finding Webrings
- Amolith’s Webring Using Go
- Brisray’s Active Webrings List, created by @brisray
- Dabric’s Linkcircle
- Gray’s JavaScript Webring
- LibreRing JavaScript Webring
- Linkcircle, a HTML/JS webring solution
- Neocities-Hosted Webrings List
- Onionring JavaScript Webring Widget
- Sadgrl’s JavaScript Webring Tutorial
- Viatrix’s Webring Creation Tutorial Using Github, Jekyll, and Netlify, by @vivivi
- Webri.ng Webring Host & Backend Handler
- Webring Kit Using Eleventy & Netlify
Widgets & Components
- 15+ CSS-Only Music Players
- Adilene’s CSS/JS Music Player
- Ayano’s Neocities Comment Widget
- Chattable, Neocities-built chatbox
- GIFypet
- Grounded Wren’s Controls (including guestbook, gallery, SVG icons, etc.)
- imood, a mood displaying widget
- Kalechips’ Website Directory Manager using PHP
- Komments, simple comment widget
- Neko Mouse Chaser
- Pollcode, a poll widget
- Portfiend’s Flashing Lights Warning
- Spawn a Neko!, a website widget that lets users spawn kitties that follow the mouse pointer
- Solaria’s Simple Javascript/CSS Jukebox
- Tamanotchi
- numbpilled’s dragcave dragon display widget
X-References
- caniuse.com, a resource that tells you what browser versions certain HTML and CSS elements are supported in
- Glossary of Web Revival Terms
- HTML Cheatsheet
- HTML documentation
- List of CSS Properties
- List of CSS Default Values
- Stanford’s HTML Cheat Sheet
Graphics
These are resources relating to graphics, graphic design, or creating art.
Browser-Based Graphic Editors
- Dither images in different styles
- Dithermark
- Dither it!
- JS Kidpix
- JS Paint
- Local PaintBBS
- Lospec Pixel Art Scaler
- Mastershot’s Actually Free No Watermark Browser Video Editor
- Monopro (Use a translator!)
- Online-Image-Editor (Add glitter to photos)
- Photopea, online Photoshop alternative
- Piskel Sprite Editor
- Pixilart Pixel Art Editor
- Pixlr Web Editor
- Seamless background maker
- Cave of Dragonflies Quiz Maker
Color Palettes
- Colorhexa
- Colormind
- ColorSpace
- Color Theory for Beginners
- CoMiGo’s palette generator
- Coolors.co
- Dracula Color Palette
- HEXWORDS, find HEX colors for words
- Image Color Picker for getting hex codes from colors on images
- Lospec Palette List
- Open Color open-source color scheme
- Poline, esoteric color palette generation library
- Realtime Colors, website color palette generator and font picker with live preview
- Shadowlord, tints and shades generator tool
- Tint and Shade Generator
- Wada Sanzō | A Dictionary of Color Combinations
Graphics Generators
- Cool Text Graphics Generator
- Favicon Generator
- 88x31 Pride Badge Generator
- blinkies.cafe
- Dan’s 88x31 Button Creator by @Ritual
- Datakrash’s 88x31 Button Generator
- EZGif Gif Editor/Maker
- Flaming Text Generator
- GigaGlitter Text Generator
- Hekate’s 88x31 Button Maker
- Lynn’s 88x31 Button Maker
- Metamapper Generate Windows 95 Graphics
(Free) Graphics & Website Materials
Also called “sozai” or “web mats,” these are collections of graphics collected all over the web that you can incorporate into your website.
- 88x31 Buttons
- 99GIF Shop
- Allyratworld Materials
- Architextures
- Artwork
- BAKENEKOKAN
- Betty’s Graphics
- Bonnibel’s Graphic Collection
- Cannelle
- Catch a Star [archived]
- ClickArt 300,000 Images & Clip Art
- Cluster (archive link)
- Cocktail Princess
- CSS3 Patterns Gallery
- da-lace
- Digital Ad Archive
- The Doll Archive
- Dokodemo’s Graphics
- Elfwink’s Pixels
- Engram Pixel
- Ethereal Goat
- Fool Lovers
- Frank-web
- free-backgrounds.com
- GifCities
- Glitter-Graphics and More
- Graphxkingdom
- GRAPHY
- GRSites Textures
- Hillhouse
- Hexed Pixels
- Hero Patterns
- Ichigo Directory
- Ishimori
- Jasmine Feng
- KABEGAMI-TANK
- King-Lulu-Deer
- KiraKira Parts
- Lapin Agile
- Lulu in Cyberspace
- Luna’s F2U Goodies
- Maguro’s Carrd
- Microsoft Clipart Archive Search
- Milkshake Skies
- The Noun Project
- Ohpixels
- OKUMONO
- Open Source Vector Icons - gcons
- Openverse, 700mil+ openly licensed images, audio, & more
- Pixel-Diary
- Pixel Safari
- Pixel-Soup
- Prismatic Realm’s Graphics & Ads
- Public Domain Treasures
- Queen’s Free World
- Rachychel
- Raw Pixel
- Rose’s Rose Garden [archive link]
- Sadtheme’s Pixels
- SleepySprout Sozai
- Strawberry Bunny
- Subtle Patterns
- Tabler Icons
- Taylor’s Tiny Backgrounds
- Texture Town
- Transparent Textures
- Twice the Pixels
- Websets by Lynn
- Whimsical
- xo’s rummage bin
- XYZ’s Carrd
- Yasuragian
Pixel Cliques & Clubs
Staff Note: These are active pixel clubs and pixel cliques across the web that have either been created or revived from an older age of the internet. Unsure about what this is?
- Afternoon Tea
- The Armoury
- Bottlecaps
- Bunny Garden
- CDwORLD
- Chao Garden
- Charm Bracelets
- Charmy Pets
- Compact Crayons
- Creatures Inside
- Deckonomicon
- Dream Team
- Eau De Parfum Parlor
- Fizzy Vendor
- The Hatchery
- Hall of Rock
- Hold My Hand
- Isopals
- Jar Jams
- Kindness Rocks
- Kitty Friends
- Lava Lounge
- Little Pixel Library
- MDClique
- Ministrife!!!
- Nyanbo
- PANTSON Color Club
- Pill Pals
- Pixel Potluck
- Pixelbill
- Pixel Scouts
- Pocket Town
- RPG Club
- Sticker Sheet Club
- Teeny Towers
- Timbropixelia
- Numbpilled
Placeholder Images
- Dynamic Dummy Image Generator
- FPOImg.com - easy, minimal placeholders
- Generative Placeholder Images
- Lorem Picsum
- Placeholder Pics
(Free) Stock Images & Illustrations
- FreeImages
- LibreShot.com, high resolution stock photos released to the public domain (CC0 1.0 Universal)
- LookAndLearn.com, 1 million historical public domain images and collections
- Pexels
- Pixabay
- Unsplash
- Wikimedia Commons
- Wikimedia Commons Free Media Resources: Photography
- Rawpixel Public Domain Collection
Beginner Graphics Guides
Utilities & Programs
These are utilities, programs, and helpful tools that can help make your life easier when it comes to computing, webmastery, and other computer-related hobbies.
HTML & Webweaving Utilities
- Bookmarklet that adds the “contenteditable” attribute to literally every element on the page for easy testing
- Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
- Copy + paste kaomoji
- Dead Link Checker
- GTmetrix, shows how fast your site loads and gives recommendations on how to improve load times
- Pixels Converter for CSS Sizing
- RSS Box, for subscribing to websites that don’t have RSS feeds
- Smooth Gradient Sass Function
- Tiny Helpers, single-use tools for web developers
- Unicode Text Converter
- Unicode Text Generators
- SingleFile browser extension- saves any page as HTML file
Image & Art Utilities
- birme, bulk image resizing made easy
- Caesium Image Compressor
- Eat My Art, easily turn hand-drawn art into GIFs
- Image Scrubber, online image EXIF data/metadata remover
- Remove backgrounds from images
- Squoosh Image Optimizer
- TinyPNG Image Compressor, web-based
- Toyls.com, a seamlsess background tile tester
- decker is cool
Social Media Utilities
- CobyCat’s Pimp My SpaceHey Code Generator
- Heath’s SpaceHey Layout Generator
- How to Run Your Own Social Media
- StreetPass for Mastodon
Retro Utilities & Programs
Typefaces & Fonts
- 1001 Fonts
- Beautiful Webtype, in-depth guide to the best free fonts
- Bunny Fonts, a Google Fonts CDN replacement
- coolLabs Fonts, a Google Fonts CDN replacement
- Font End Dev
- Fontpair, curated font pairings
- Fontspace, 130k+ free fonts
- Fontspring, worry-free fonts
- Font Squirrel
- fonts.upset.dev, a Google Fonts CDN replacement
- Free Japanese Font
- Google webfonts helper, a helper service for self-hosting Google fonts
- Humantooth’s Hosted Web Fonts
- Inclusive fonts, free or inexpensive readable fonts
- Kreative Korp Relay Fonts
- Modern Font Stacks, list of font stacks that leverage system fonts for speed, with CSS snippets
- The Best of Creative Lettering
- The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack
- Typetester Typesetting Tool
- Urban Fonts
- Velvetyne Type Foundry
- Wakamaifondue (“What can my font do?”), a helpful utility for exploring OpenType font features
Password Managers
- 1Password
- Bitwarden
- KeePassXC
- Proton Pass FOSS, E2E encrypted and developed by Proton
Other Software & Utilities
Independent Web Alternatives
These are alternative projects, web services, and replacements for the corporate web, corporate services, or Big Tech.
Staff Note: selfh.st has a giant directory of active self-hosted (typically free) apps that is a good resource to use.
Creativity Tools & Programs
- Blender, 3D creation suite
- Blockbench, FOSS low poly 3d modeling software
- Every tool you could want to edit images in bulk
- Firealpaca, digital painting software
- GIMP Image Manipulator Program, an open-source Photoshop alternative
- HandBrake Video Transcoder
- Kdenlive, video editing software
- Krita Graphics Editor
- Libresprite, open-source fork of Aseprite (pixel art program)
- Mixx DJ Software
- OpenToonz 2D Animating Software
- Owncast, a self-hosted livestreaming service
- Paint.NET
- Schism Tracker Music Creator
- Shutter Encoder, free and open-cource video, audio and image converter software
eCommerce Alternatives
- Artisans Cooperative, an Etsy alternative
- Ecwid, a free Shopify alternative
- Mushroomy, a cute, by-artists, for-artists storefront platform & Etsy alternative
- Snipcart, a JS shopping cart and checkout system that works with any website or page
- Thirty Bees, a free, open-source Shopify alternative
Email Newsletter Software
- Beehiiv, free tier up to 2,500 subscribers
- Plunk, free tier up to 1,000 emails/mo or free self-hosting
- Keila, free self-hosted option
- Letterloop, $5/mo and friends- and family-focused
- Listmonk, free and self-hosted
- Mailtrain, free and self-hosted
- SendPortal, free self-hosted email marketing/newsletter management
Productivity Tools & Programs
- Alternative Internet List, a collection of networks, software, and technology aiming at re-decentralizing the Internet
- Etherpad, a Google Docs alternative
- Framasoft Software’s De-Google-ify the Internet, a collection of homegrown Big Tech alternatives
- Goblin Tools, a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult
- Grow Your Own Services
Search Engines
- Creative Commons Media Search
- feedle, a search engine for blogs and podcasts
- Gibiru
- Kagi Search
- Marginalia
- Mwmbl
- Old’aVista (archive link)
- Public Work, a search engine of copyright-free images
- Qwant - alternative to Google with a focus on not selling user data
- SearchMySite
- SearX
- Stract
- Wiby.me
- Yep
Other Service Alternatives
- Album Whale, a music recommendations platform
- Bookshelf Town, a smol book-reading tracker
- Ko-Fi, a donation service
- Record Club, a music discovery platform
Service Proxies and Frontends
- BreezeWiki, allows you to view Fandom wiki pages without the bloat or ads
- FreeTube, a privacy-focused desktop client for YouTube
- Invidious, a lighter-weight YouTube frontend; self-hostable and accessible through various public instances
- LibRedirect, a web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends
- NewPipe, an alternative mobile YouTube client for Android
- Piped, an alternative YouTube frontend
- Redlib, a private front-end for Reddit; self-hostable and accessible through various public instances
- Scribe, a Medium link alternative
Zines
- CODE LIT
- Crawlspace, multimedia writing and art that experiments with the web
- Ctrl+V
- elpis, a small web zine by @downgrade
- Good Internet by @xandra
- HTML Review
- Iffy Books Zines about hacking, free culture, gardening
- Melonland Surf Club E-Zine
- Solarpunk Magic Computer Club Zines(archive link)
- Welcome to the Personal Web by Manatee
- Wizard Zines, zines about programming (some free) plus posters and interactive playgrounds
- Zine machine, read online or print out, cut, and fold to create a physical copy. Remix and write your own zine!
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