Jonathan MarkwellAug 7, 2024

I built a thing as fun side project at Urlbox.

It's a fresh perspective on the web. A way to explore over one million homepage screenshots. You can zoom, pan and click to navigate.

It's called One Million Screenshots.

It's built using data collected since the start of this year. We'll soon share that data in new API. It's also been fun to experiment with a few things we're considering adding to Urlbox's core API.

Here's the link:
https://onemillionscreenshots.com

One Million Screenshots

Explore the web's biggest homepage. Discover similar sites. See changes over time. Get web data.

Show threadMikael GramontAug 7, 2024
@Jot Very nice and fun to use!
I find myself wanting to find meaning in the spatial proximity between screenshots, is there any?
It would be fun to be able to group things by color, theme, keywords, etc. I do realize it'd be yet more work ^^
Show threadJonathan Markwell

@mikamtb great to hear!

I have attempted to make some meaning. The top ranked sites are in the middle. I then pull sites towards the corners of each layer based crudely on how they look.

Have experimented with other approaches. In the next version I will try to do some clustering based on content.

Aug 7, 2024 at 2:36pmIvory for iOS