Sites like neal.fun that are just as fun
Neal.fun is Neal Agarwal's collection of little web projects: spending Bill Gates' money, scrolling down to the deep sea, The Password Game, Infinite Craft. Each one takes a simple idea and makes it impossible to close the tab.
If you have played all of them, these are the sites with the same spirit: made by curious people, free to use in the browser, and better than they have any right to be.
Neal.fun
neal.fun
Start here if you somehow have not: The Deep Sea, Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Password Game, Absurd Trolley Problems and many more, all free in the browser.
The Pudding
pudding.cool
Visual essays that explain culture with data: music, movies, words and how people actually behave. Every story is something you scroll and play with, not just read.
Bartosz Ciechanowski
ciechanow.ski
Long interactive explainers on how things work, like mechanical watches, GPS, cameras and bicycles, with 3D models you can turn and poke. Some of the best explainers on the web.
Nicky Case
ncase.me
Playable explanations of big ideas, like The Evolution of Trust, which teaches game theory in about half an hour and never feels like a lesson.
Explorable Explanations
explorabl.es
A collection of interactive explainers from many makers, on maths, science, society and more. A whole rabbit hole in one page.
Radio Garden
radio.garden
Spin a globe and listen to live radio stations from almost anywhere on Earth. Strangely relaxing and hard to stop.
WindowSwap
www.window-swap.com
Look out of someone else's window, somewhere in the world, for a few minutes. Short videos sent in by people everywhere.
Little Alchemy 2
littlealchemy2.com
Start with four elements and combine them into hundreds of things. If you liked Infinite Craft, this is the classic it grew from.
Quick, Draw!
quickdraw.withgoogle.com
Doodle something in 20 seconds and watch an AI try to guess what it is. Simple, funny and a little humbling.
Silk
weavesilk.com
Draw with flowing, symmetrical light. Anything you make looks beautiful, which is the whole point.
Patatap
patatap.com
Every key on your keyboard plays a sound and an animation. Mash the keys and it turns into music.
NexURLs
nexurls.com
Full disclosure, this one is ours. Press Next and land on a site a real person shared, often exactly this kind of clever, playful project. Free, no account needed to start.
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Questions people ask
Who made neal.fun?
Neal Agarwal, a developer who builds small, playful web projects and posts them on neal.fun. They are free to use in the browser.
What websites are similar to neal.fun?
The Pudding, Bartosz Ciechanowski's explainers, Nicky Case's playable essays, Explorable Explanations, Radio Garden, WindowSwap, Little Alchemy 2, Quick, Draw!, Silk and Patatap all share its mix of curiosity and play.
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