50 lesser-known websites worth bookmarking, from Sci-Hub to 12ft.io
nikola_mr64990 · x · 2026-11-12
A curated list of 50 useful but lesser-known websites, organized by category:
- Academic & reading: 12ft.io (paywall bypass), Sci-Hub, libgen.is, free textbooks, Gutenberg (70k+ free books), Open Culture, Semantic Scholar, Connected Papers, Consensus, Elicit
- Image & file tools: Photopea (browser Photoshop), Squoosh, remove.bg, cleanup.pictures, unscreen, iLovePDF, SmallPDF
- Developer tools: ray.so, Carbon, regex101, explainshell, phind
- Privacy & security: haveibeenpwned, VirusTotal, temp-mail, privnote
- Exploration & productivity: archive.org, archive.ph, radio.garden, everynoise, tunefind, tineye, downforeveryone
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