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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.
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While the main visualisation is currently out of date we’ve been grabbing screenshots monthly for the last 18 months.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.
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.
Super cool idea… but the "similar title" feature seems broken - the whole similarity thing I guess. Tried apple.com[1] and got rolandd.com as #1.
Not gonna lie, I was expecting at least an orchard or some other fruit.
[1] https://onemillionscreenshots.com/apple.com/similar/title
I'm getting:
> Secure Connection Failed
> An error occurred during a connection to onemillionscreenshots.com. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).
> Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP
Firefox 130 from Snap on Ubuntu. And I don't recall customising any SSL configuration to restrict the set of available ciphers or similar.
Neat, my personal site pixeldrain.com is in there
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…
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
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.
This gave me anxiety. First time I experience doom scrolling without scrolling nor even spending more than 1 minute on a page. Great work !
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).
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.
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.
Nice! Only suggestion would be to not snap the zoom (when using the keyboard) - but very cool!
Not much yellow on the web
I asked them to add my site and got spammed with some service they offer.
Finding my app's website on this made me giggle :)
I like the ones that are greyed out because they have some infernal popup about to appear
Clicking on the website to view the details appears to be broken
Cool. Thanks for including my website.
Seems like a lot bootstrap like templat sites.
Not a lot melonking sites.
neat but not actually screenshots. Screenshots would show windows, menus, etc.....
Every website looks so similar in design to one another that it feels eerie
Meh... [big number] + [thing] meta seems overplayed by now
This just makes me realize that entirety of the internet has just become a gateway to sell you something.