Cool websites worth your two minutes
“Cool” isn't a category in our database. It's just what happens when someone builds something well and doesn't over-explain it — a live map of the entire planet's wind patterns, a color palette generator that's somehow satisfying to use, a gallery of code that draws.
The sites below share that quality more than any single topic. They're the kind of thing you send to a friend with no caption, because the link says it all.
RandoSite exists because there's a lot more of this out there than any feed is going to show you. Press the button below for the full range — weird, useful, pointless, all of it — or start with this shortlist if you're specifically after something that looks as good as it works.
Good-looking, well-made, worth it
- Radio Garden — Spin a 3D globe and listen to real radio stations broadcasting live from almost anywhere on Earth.
- Windy — An extraordinarily detailed, animated map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions across the entire planet.
- earth.nullschool.net — A hypnotic, real-time visualization of wind and ocean currents swirling across a spinning globe.
- Shadertoy — A community gallery of thousands of real-time graphics shaders — mesmerizing, code-generated visuals.
- OpenProcessing — A community of thousands of generative artists sharing code-based, interactive artwork.
- Color Hunt — Thousands of hand-picked color palettes, updated daily, for whenever you're stuck.
- Coolors — Generate, browse, and export color palettes in seconds.