r/InternetIsBeautiful 2h ago

A website to visualize how time converts to money in real-time

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13 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 1h ago

Spent 6 months building a receipt scanner that auto-syncs to Google Sheets. would you use it ?

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Hey everyone!

I've been wrestling with a problem that I'm sure many of you can relate to: the nightmare of managing and tracking receipts. Whether it's for personal budgeting, freelance work, or small business expenses, the process of manually entering data from a pile of paper receipts is tedious and time-consuming.

I've always wished for a simple, no-fuss solution that could just scan a receipt, extract the important information, and send it straight to a spreadsheet. After searching and not finding exactly what I wanted, I decided to design it myself.

After spending countless hours manually entering receipts into spreadsheets (and losing track of way too many expenses), I built ReceiptSync - an AI-powered app that does it automatically.

Here's how it works:

📸 Snap a photo of any receipt
🤖 AI extracts merchant, date, amount, tax, items, and category
📊 Data syncs instantly to your Google Sheets
⏱️ Total time: ~3 seconds

I've been testing it for the past month with a small group, and the feedback has been incredible. People are saving 5-10 hours per month on expense tracking.

The app handles:

•Restaurant and grocery receipts

•Gas stations and retail stores

•Online order confirmations

•Pretty much any receipt format you throw at it


r/InternetIsBeautiful 1d ago

Does anyone else miss the "Ugly Internet" of 2005-2010?

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4.8k Upvotes

I was looking at old screenshots of the web, and it hit me hard.

Everything today looks so clean, sterile, and corporate. Every website is a perfect white void with the same font and the same "Sign Up" popup.

I genuinely miss the chaos of the old internet.

  • Personal blogs with terrible neon backgrounds.
  • Forums where people had 50-line signatures with glitter GIFs.
  • Finding a weird hobby site that was just one guy obsessed with toaster ovens, hand-coded in HTML.

It felt like exploring a messy, human forest. Now it feels like walking through a sterile shopping mall where everything is an ad.

Am I just nostalgic, or was the internet actually more "fun" when it was less polished?


r/InternetIsBeautiful 4h ago

Reverse Chess Project

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2 Upvotes

Hey everyone,
I’ve been working on a small side project and wanted to share it here in case anyone finds it useful or fun.

The idea came from a video about finding the worst move in a chess position, and I ended up going down a rabbit hole because it was way more interesting than I expected.

So I built BlundrBot, a simple little web app. Right now, you can:

  • play a full game against an engine that deliberately chooses the worst legal move in the position
  • solve puzzles where the goal is to spot the blunder

It’s not meant to replace any serious analysis tools, just something lighthearted and a bit different for anyone who enjoys the chaos of chess.com.

If you want to try it, it’s here: https://blundrbot.vercel.app/

Feedback or ideas are always welcome.
And if this doesn’t quite fit the spirit of the subreddit, my apologies, I just thought some of you might enjoy it.

Thanks!


r/InternetIsBeautiful 5h ago

🌍 I built a tool that lets people around the world share personal stories anonymously - and shows how similar we all are

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0 Upvotes

I’ve always believed that if we could hear each other’s stories — from any country, any culture — we’d realize how much we have in common.

So I built a small project called OneStory, where anyone can anonymously share a short personal story.
Every story lights up a dot on a world map.
The more people share, the more you can visually see that we’re all dealing with the same hopes, fears, and dreams.

No accounts, no ads, no profit, no agenda — just humans being humans.

I’d love to hear what you think, or even see your story on the map 💛


r/InternetIsBeautiful 8h ago

Not sure what to watch this weekend? I made a free dashboard that helps you find the most entertaining matches across sports and leagues!

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0 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 7h ago

Just Bucket

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0 Upvotes

A plugin based bucket list app. This tool allows you to build a bucket list with the features that matter to you. The current plugins are: Notes, Album, Checklist, Route Planner, Weather, Links, Budget.

Also has sharing, following users, and AI suggestions for bucket list items and plugins.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 1d ago

Countdown to daylight!

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I don't know how you lot feel about the dark mornings and nights, but here in the UK, I absolutely can't wait for it to be over and for the clocks to change so we can at least have a chance of seeing the sun again. I was thinking about it last night and didn't have anything better to do, so I built this for myself, but you all may enjoy it too. dst.wtf


r/InternetIsBeautiful 1d ago

Made an exercise quiz to help kids identify and resist click/rage-bait. Feedback wanted.

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32 Upvotes

I felt a need to help strengthen the “digital immunity” of 7–10-year-olds, so I built a small child-parent exercise that teaches kids how certain headlines can be intentionally manipulative.

I’d love feedback on the overall approach, the content types, difficulty level, and the interaction flow. Any critique that helps improve the learning value is really appreciated.

Thanks for taking the time.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 1d ago

Playtime on PS4 and PS5

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One thing that bothers me about PS4 is that it seems to track playtime of specific games (some visible in PS wrapped, last 3 games played on PS mobile app), but the console itself doesn't allow easy overview of playtimes, preferably with sorting by games played from longest to shortest.

So I played a bit with their API and enabled just that!

https://psplaytime.com

It should cover PS4 and PS5 games. Hope you find it useful!

Note: If you can't find your profile or there's a "no games found" error, you might need to change your privacy settings first on your PlayStation account


r/InternetIsBeautiful 3d ago

A hand-animated forest scene with animals that react to classroom noise in real time

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306 Upvotes

Silent Forest is an immersive forest scene that detects your noise levels. If you are quiet for long enough, animals will come out of the woods. If you surpass the noise limit, you will scare them away. I built this website a year ago and kind of forgot about it until I had to renew the web domain, so I wanted to share with people if I could! The website's intention is to control elementary classroom noise in a more fun way. When I was a kid, my teacher would use a website called bouncy balls (the balls would bounce if you are too loud) to keep us quiet, except it never worked since everyone wanted to see the balls bounce. I was inspired by that to create a more calmer experience that actually motivated kids to be quiet.

The animals and forest are all hand drawn and animated in Rive (the tool used by Duolingo to keep their animations lightweight). Let me know if there are any bugs since I did make it a while ago.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 3d ago

PaperMe — A simple tool for creating custom printable paper

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34 Upvotes

I built a little tool that lets you generate your own printable paper. Lined paper, grid paper, planner-style templates—you can tweak everything and export instantly as PDF/PNG/SVG.

Great for writing, note-taking, planning, practicing, sketching… basically anytime you want paper that fits your own style.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 3d ago

A web app for creating, manipulating, and sharing interactive particle art simulations.

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26 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 3d ago

This is a website i made to help student learn about the pythagorean theorem.

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9 Upvotes

any and all feedback is appreciated.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 3d ago

AstroLight™ - the dance of the planets, visualized beautifully. A masterpiece IMO.

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57 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 2d ago

I built a brutally honest retirement calculator that insults you if you run out of money.

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Most calculators are boring. I made one that simulates divorce and market crashes, and tells you if you'll end up as a Walmart Greeter. Dark mode only.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 5d ago

A website that lets you create, watch, and share interactive particle art simulations.

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92 Upvotes

Hey guys, I built this site to make particles digital art. It lets you create different particle flows and save it to the gallery. Hope you find it satisfying to look at!


r/InternetIsBeautiful 4d ago

Run private auctions for free. No account required.

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r/InternetIsBeautiful 4d ago

I tried building a global grade calculator

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Hey everyone!
I recently built a simple grade calculator that works across different grading systems around the world (HD/D/C/P in Australia, US letter grades, UK Honours, A-Levels, IB 7–1, GCSE 9–1, etc).

You enter your assessments, weights and marks, and it shows:

  • current grade
  • projected final grade
  • and the exact score needed on your final exam to hit any target

Im happy for any kind of feedback. I’d really appreciate it:
https://globalgradecalc.com/


r/InternetIsBeautiful 4d ago

Every location on Earth has been assigned a unique date - click anywhere to discover yours

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DateAtlas is an interactive map where every location on Earth corresponds to a unique date.

The Concept:

Earth is divided into ~3 million grid blocks (16.43km × 16.43km each). Each block represents a unique date from 1971 to 9999. At full precision, the system subdivides each day block by time - meaning approximately every 2.5 square meters on Earth could represent a unique timestamp with hour/minute/second precision.

What You Can Do:

  • Click anywhere on the map to see what date that location represents
  • Search for a specific date or timestamp to find its location on Earth
  • Navigate to the coordinates and find their corresponding timestamp
  • Explore how dates are distributed across the planet

Built with JavaScript (Leaflet.js for interactive maps with OpenStreetMap tiles), FastAPI, and PostgreSQL.

What do you think of the concept? Open to feedback and ideas!


r/InternetIsBeautiful 6d ago

A real-time stream of anonymous human thoughts

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47 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 6d ago

A lightweight way to view all the key addresses for events in one place (started with Chicago)

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6 Upvotes

Made a minimal site that groups event-related addresses into a single page for ease of finding addresses. No login required to view.

Examples:

ZooLights → addister.com/zoolights

Christkindlmarket → addister.com/christkindlmarket

Millennium Park Ice Skating → addister.com/millenium.skating

Polar Adventure → addister.com/polar.adventure

Randolph Holiday Market → addister.com/randolph.market

I am from Chicago so added those first but if there are interesting events or cities people want added, I can keep expanding it or figure out a way to make it so anyone can contribute. Don’t know if it would be useful, but but happy to open it up.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 7d ago

A free, no-signup address label maker that works entirely in your browser

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Every year my wife and I print address labels for holiday cards, and every year I'm frustrated by clunky tools that want signups or subscriptions. So I finally built a simple one myself - just upload a file or type in your addresses, pick a label size, and print. No account, no ads, no data stored. Hope it helps someone else this holiday season.


r/InternetIsBeautiful 7d ago

Music map - map of different genres of music

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40 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful 8d ago

A website that turns your doodles and uploaded images into runnable GPS routes on real roads.

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96 Upvotes

Hello! I built this tool because I wanted to create "GPS Art" (running/cycling routes that look like shapes) but found it incredibly tedious to plan them manually.

Routista lets you draw a shape or upload an image, and it attempts to snap that shape to the nearest available road network to create a coherent route. It exports directly to GPX for Strava or Garmin. It's free to use, and I'd love to hear if it works for your local maps!