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    One Million Screenshots (onemillionscreenshots.com)
    203 points by gaws - 12 hours ago

  • Cloudflare Family DNS seems to be blocking this site.
    by LorenDB - 12 hours ago
  • This is a neat visualization. It makes me want to build something like this with actual screenshots (scraping from places like old forums, image hosting sites, etc.) rather than web page renderings.

    One of my most prized possessions is my collection of personal screenshots -- I've managed to save basically every screenshot I've taken over the past ~20 years. It's very nostalgic to put them on shuffle and see how my desktop has changed over time, remember what random thing I was working on, etc.

    Could be cool to extend the concept beyond one user.

    by dathery - 12 hours ago
  • Seems like a lot bootstrap like templat sites.

    Not a lot melonking sites.

    by keysdev - 12 hours ago
  • Every website looks so similar in design to one another that it feels eerie
    by mariocesar - 12 hours ago
  • Meh... [big number] + [thing] meta seems overplayed by now
    by r33b33 - 12 hours ago
  • Clicking on the website to view the details appears to be broken
    by mariocesar - 12 hours ago
  • I like the ones that are greyed out because they have some infernal popup about to appear
    by Unearned5161 - 11 hours ago
  • Why is this so fast
    by wewewedxfgdf - 11 hours ago
  • I asked them to add my site and got spammed with some service they offer.
    by latchkey - 11 hours ago
  • zoomed out image looks interesting

    https://i.postimg.cc/SK0CMnPt/ss.png

    by hn-user-42 - 11 hours ago
  • Wow, I‘m impressed. This is a really cool tool to get some inspiration as web dev. Although I have to say it‘s a bit scary how similar all the websites look nowadays…
    by blendaddict - 11 hours ago
  • Glad to see "dead internet theory" not holding up!

    PS: As someone who worked on internet search, I can assure you that at least half of most popular web pages change in about 6 months time. And the change is in no way something that can be done by bots.

    by starchild3001 - 10 hours ago
  • Very cool. Would be interesting for a more niche filter criteria, since you aren't exactly finding many hidden gems in the top million mostly corporate sites. Maybe AI could provide that filter (top 1 million "niche" sites, or smaller sites that have been around since the late 90s).
    by Fade_Dance - 10 hours ago
  • This really makes clear how boring web design has become. 99% of websites use the same standard layout, there's almost nothing distinct or exciting about any of the designs. I remember web design being an art form, with books being printed with the best designs... I'd visit brand websites just to look at the design itself, even if I wasn't interested in what they were selling.

    Of course not all is bad, but I'd love to see some creativity again, it seems like almost no one dares to break the norm anymore.

    by karpour - 10 hours ago
  • It would be interesting to analyze this dataset in terms of colors, layout, features, fonts, photos, etc. to be able to statistically measure the uniqueness or creativity of a given web design.
    by awb - 9 hours ago
  • This site breaks the browser's back button.
    by milancurcic - 9 hours ago
  • Barely related despite their names: Damn, http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com is 20 years old...

    What a story: https://thehustle.co/million-dollar-homepage-alex-tew

    by netsharc - 9 hours ago
  • Cool. Thanks for including my website.
    by Brajeshwar - 8 hours ago
  • This just makes me realize that entirety of the internet has just become a gateway to sell you something.
    by kachapopopow - 7 hours ago
  • neat but not actually screenshots. Screenshots would show windows, menus, etc.....
    by socalgal2 - 6 hours ago
  • Rarely I save something like this. Addicting. Saved it in my daily news. It is interesting to get new ideas by just clicking on the zoom button.
    by tzahifadida - 4 hours ago
  • Hi HN,

    I’m one of the makers of this - thank you for posting!

    We built it in early 2024 and it’s due an update.

    While the main visualisation is currently out of date we’ve been grabbing screenshots monthly for the last 18 months. There’s a a free (no key required) API to all the data at https://ScreenshotOf.com

    I’d love to hear any ideas you have for improving it.

    by jot - 4 hours ago
  • Nice! Only suggestion would be to not snap the zoom (when using the keyboard) - but very cool!
    by joduplessis - 4 hours ago
  • Not much yellow on the web
    by washmyelbows - 2 hours ago
  • Finding my app's website on this made me giggle :)
    by tjosten - 1 hour ago

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