Editor's Pick
IWT
IndieWebTools
Free utilities for checking metadata, sitemaps, robots.txt, structured data, favicons, manifests, and other website basics.
Independent web discovery
Find the web worth discovering.
Explore useful websites, emerging tools, hidden gems, and independent projects before everyone else finds them.
Human-curated discoveries
Independent projects welcome
Free to explore
Explore the web
Browse by category
Find websites built to help you create, learn, calculate, explore, and get something useful done.
Featured discoveries
Websites worth a closer look
A starting collection of practical, independent websites selected for their usefulness, originality, or potential.
Editor's Pick
PM
PastMaps
Explore historical maps connected to modern locations and see how roads, neighborhoods, boundaries, and landscapes changed.
Useful Tool
APC
AIProfitCalc
Estimate creator earnings, sponsorship rates, website profits, and other business outcomes with straightforward calculators.
Hidden Gem
ERC
ExchangeRateCalc
Simple live currency conversion for international travel, remittance corridors, trade pairs, cryptocurrencies, and gold.
Calculator
CIC
Compound Interest Calculator
Explore savings growth, investment scenarios, FIRE numbers, doubling time, and long-term compounding.
You're Here
SWF
SmallWebFinder
A growing collection of useful websites, independent tools, emerging projects, and overlooked corners of the web.
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Discovery signals
Websites worth watching
A rotating selection of useful projects, unusual finds, and websites that merit a closer look.
Site spotlight
A closer look at one discovery
Featured website
IndieWebTools
IndieWebTools brings common website checks and generators into one simple collection. It is designed for builders who need to inspect or improve a site without immediately buying a large SEO platform.
The project is especially useful for validating the technical details that are easy to overlook: metadata, canonical tags, sitemaps, robots directives, social previews, favicons, manifests, and structured data.
Developer Tools
Free
Independent
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The SmallWebFinder approach
Discovery, not another search engine
Search engines help answer known questions. SmallWebFinder is designed to help you encounter websites you did not know to search for.
Discover earlier
Find useful independent projects while they are still new, overlooked, or beginning to gain traction.
Look beyond popularity
A website does not need millions of visitors to be original, useful, well-built, or worthy of attention.
Keep exploring
Every useful discovery should make it easier to find another interesting corner of the web.
Help map the useful web
Know a website worth discovering?
Submit your own project or recommend a useful website you think deserves more attention.
Independent websites are welcome
New and established projects may be submitted
Every submission is reviewed before publication