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y2meta is a free set of checkers and spec references for YouTube creators, covering thumbnails, channel banners, Shorts and titles. The name is shared with a crowd of YouTube downloader sites, and this one says plainly that it never downloads or converts videos, and links each number it quotes back to YouTube Help.

Fi builds GPS tracking collars for dogs and the app that goes with them, mapping where a dog is and logging how it sleeps, moves and behaves. It runs on AT&T's LTE-M network rather than Bluetooth, so a lost dog is found without a stranger's phone happening to walk past.

7 Brew is an American drive-thru coffee chain that sells drinks only, ordered from the car window rather than a counter. It takes its name from the seven brews it opened with in Arkansas in 2017, a count the menu long ago outgrew — there are now more than 800 stands across 38 states.

City of Punk reviews the AI music and sound generators — Suno, Udio, Stable Audio, ElevenLabs — for people deciding which one to pay for. It runs no sponsorships, and its Stable Audio review opens on a real four-second brief: a rusted service hatch dragged open, for a game build.

CaffeineCutoff works out the latest time to finish a coffee, tea or energy drink and still be asleep by a set hour. It runs the five-hour half-life clock backward from bedtime rather than handing over a decay chart, and it declines to diagnose bad sleep or sell anything claiming to fix it.

BeachWaterTemp gives live and typical water temperatures for 221 US swim beaches, for anyone deciding whether to get in. Every reading names the NOAA station it came from and how far that station sits from the sand, rather than implying it was measured at the beach itself.

CN AUTO HR is a reference on Chinese car brands — who owns each badge, what its Chinese name means, and which countries it is actually sold in. It reviews nothing and ranks nothing; where a figure could not be confirmed against a primary document, the cell is left blank rather than guessed.

African Belief is a free, plainly written guide to the creation stories, deities, ancestors and rites of African belief systems. Its house rule is to name the people — 'among the Akan of Ghana', never 'Africans believe' — and it gives a rite's meaning without ever printing its manual.

816 New York looks up any New York City address and shows what the Department of Buildings, HPD and 311 have on record for that building. Every record carries the date it was last checked, and when a check has not succeeded in three days the record says so rather than showing old numbers as current.

Sound Education turns words, minutes and audio settings into each other for podcasters, narrators, video scriptwriters and teachers. Every result prints the formula behind it, and gear specs come straight from manufacturers' sheets with a checked date — no reviews, no rankings, no blog.

iFixCodes explains what HTTP status codes and WordPress errors mean and how to fix them, in words a site owner would use. The domain was a WordPress repair shop until it lapsed; the publisher who took it over keeps the old shop's plugin pages at their original URLs but retired its donation page.

The Safety Almanac dates every safety awareness day, week and month in the world, and ties each one to the injury it exists to prevent. A date is marked confirmed only once someone has read the organiser's own page and logged the day they read it; the rest are openly flagged as inferred.

AlloCovid answers the COVID questions people still ask — when isolation ends, whether an old test kit still works, how much is going around — with a date or a number, not an article. Every number is quoted from CDC or FDA with a link, and each data page prints the week its figures run through.

Blobs makes the soft, irregular shapes designers drop behind headlines, photos and slide dividers, exporting each as an editable vector path rather than an image. Each shape's seed, node count and fill ride in the query string, so a blob is a link: paste the URL and the exact path rebuilds.

Mando sells aluminum-free whole-body deodorant for men, made for the groin, feet and chest as much as the underarms. It is the men's line of Lume, the brand physician Shannon Klingman built on mandelic acid to neutralize odor bacteria rather than perfume over them.

Ladder is a strength training app that hands you a weekly lifting program written by a named human coach. Every member joins that coach's team, so the same workout is being done by a group of strangers who can see each other finish it.

JoistSpan gives the allowable span for a floor joist, rafter, header or deck beam under the 2021 International Residential Code. Every number is cited to the exact table it came from, and anything the tables don't cover — point loads, unusual snow — goes to an engineer, not a rule of thumb.

HolidayClosures answers whether US banks, mail, markets, federal offices, schools and trash pickup are running on a given day. Every answer is hand-checked against the institution's own calendar — the Fed, USPS, NYSE — and where next year's schedule isn't published yet, the page says so.

FishingHelps gives a daily bite forecast for any of 16,000+ US towns, folding solunar feeding windows and live weather into a single score. Its own about page calls solunar theory a folk model with mixed scientific support, which is rare candor from a site built on it.

Curatorbait is a one-curator gallery of websites judged on a single question: did the site make a design decision and see it through? Nothing is sponsored, and every rejected submission still gets written reasons, because a no without a why is just noise.

BirdBench makes small, free tools for North American birders, from hummingbird nectar ratios to nest box dimensions. One of them ranks eBird hotspots by species count times months since anyone filed a checklist, surfacing the good patch everyone drives past.

TextDet boxes every line of text in a photo, scan or screenshot, running the detector models in the browser rather than on a server. Its table of ten years of detectors deliberately refuses to rank them — the papers test on different datasets, so it reads as a timeline, not a leaderboard.

WashCodes turns the care symbols printed on a clothing tag into one plain-English washing plan. When symbols on the same tag pull in different directions it always resolves to the stricter reading, never the loosened one.

StillEdible answers how long a given food keeps — pantry, fridge, freezer, opened, or left out overnight. Every number is quoted verbatim from USDA's FoodKeeper data, never rounded or averaged, unlike the guesswork most 'how long does it last' pages run on.

SchoolStartDates tracks first days, breaks and last days for the 2026–27 school year across 125 of the largest US school districts. Districts that haven't adopted a 2026–27 calendar yet say so rather than carrying last year's dates forward, and every date names and links the calendar it came from.

PollenDates gives the typical start, peak and end dates for tree, grass and ragweed pollen in every US state. It runs no daily counts and no symptom advice — ragweed's end is simply the local first-frost date from NOAA's 1991–2020 records.

Lesson Six is a career site for people trying to get hired in tech without a target-school degree or a FAANG résumé. Its pay figures come from 189,389 H-1B wage filings held by the US Department of Labor, not the self-reported numbers most comparison sites run on.

Harvey is an AI platform for legal work — research, document review, contract analysis — used by law firms and corporate legal departments. It was started in 2022 by a litigation associate and a former DeepMind researcher who shared an apartment, and is named after Harvey Specter from Suits.

HuntDates tells US hunters which seasons are open today, counting down, or closed in their state, across deer, turkey, duck, dove and elk. Every date is transcribed from the state wildlife agency's own regulations and linked back to it; the site calls itself a calendar, not the law.

FootingDepth is a state-by-state reference on how deep footings, fence posts and buried lines have to go. Every depth names the code section and edition it came from, and where no agency publishes a verifiable figure the page says so rather than guessing.

Farmers Market Dates tracks which farmers markets are open today and when each season opens and closes, across 94 markets in ten US cities. A market is marked confirmed only once someone has read this season's schedule on a live page — the other eight say “check before you go”.

ExpiredFeed publishes daily lists of deleted, pending-delete and newly registered domains, aimed at domain investors, SEOs and developers. When the daily import stalls, a red banner on the homepage says so rather than quietly serving a stale list as today's.

BurnDates tracks which US counties are under a burn ban, reading the state forestry lists so anyone about to light a fire doesn't have to. Rather than serve a stale answer, it expires any county it hasn't reconfirmed within two days and says so.

Bold Puzzles is a free collection of large-print word searches, sudoku, solitaire and trivia made for older adults and anyone reading with low vision. Words in its grids never run backwards, on the stated view that reversed words frustrate more than they challenge.

Jolie sells one product, a filtered showerhead, to people whose skin and hair react to chlorinated tap water. Its opening move is not the product but a free Water Report on what comes out of the pipes at a given US zip code — an unusual place to begin for a company selling bathroom hardware.

Wildflowerdates tracks when North America's wildflower blooms peak, desert floor to alpine meadow, for anyone planning a trip around one. It calls superbloom years from winter rain at NOAA stations against each desert's past big years, and names public reserves and roads only — never an exact pin.

TaxFreeDates tracks every US state sales tax holiday — the dates, the price caps, and which items actually qualify. Every entry is hand-checked against the state's own revenue announcement, and when a state hasn't posted next year's dates it says so rather than guessing.

ShelfYears is a shelf-life reference for the non-food things in a garage or cleaning cupboard — fuels, paints, pool chemicals, the helmet on the hook. Every window cites a manufacturer document or SDS section and the day it was checked, and says whether using it late is harmless or a safety issue.

PoolDates works out when to open and close a backyard pool in a given US town, and how to dose the water in between. Each date comes from 1991–2020 NOAA normals at the nearest weather station, which it names, and arrives as a window rather than one confident day.

PlantDates is a set of free garden calculators for US gardeners — frost dates by ZIP, planting calendars by zone, plus bed, soil and spacing math. Frost dates come from 1991–2020 climate normals at 6,183 locations, and it says plainly that a median date is a coin flip — half of years frost later.

LemonBench tells used-car buyers which model years of a given car to avoid, using NHTSA's federal complaint and recall records. It refuses to rank one model against another — complaint counts have no sales denominator — so each year is scored only against that same model's worst year.

LawnDates tells US homeowners when to overseed, aerate, fertilize and put down pre-emergent for their own ZIP. Each city calendar names the actual NOAA station its dates come from and how far away it sits, then calls every window a starting point rather than a deadline.

HouseYears is a reference on how long each part of a house actually lasts, material by material. Every figure sits beside the published warranty term to show how far apart the two run — slate lasts 75 years or more, but its 100-year warranty covers exactly two failure modes.

Flight Delay Data arranges the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics on-time filings by airport, route, airline and hour of the day, for anyone choosing between two flights. It refuses to forecast, and where a sample thins below 100 flights it prints a blank rather than a percentage.

FeederDates gives put-out and take-down dates for hummingbird, oriole and suet feeders in all 50 US states. It says plainly that neither Journey North nor eBird publishes a put-out date, and that its windows are its own reading of their arrival data.

CanningDates turns a US ZIP code into the altitude adjustments a tested canning recipe assumes the cook already knows — minutes for a water bath, pounds for a pressure canner. It refuses to extrapolate: past the last row of the USDA table it says so and points to a county extension office.

Federal Student Aid is the U.S. Department of Education office behind the FAFSA form, federal grants and student loan repayment. In December 2019 it absorbed StudentLoans.gov, FSAID.ed.gov and parts of NSLDS, ending years of borrowers bouncing between four differently branded federal sites.

Instructure makes Canvas, the learning management system that carries coursework, assignments and grading for schools and universities in over 100 countries. Canvas is open source under the AGPLv3, with its full codebase public on GitHub — unusual for infrastructure this entrenched.

Sesame is a US telehealth marketplace for booking doctor visits, prescriptions and lab work directly. It accepts no insurance at all: clinicians set their own flat fees and the full price appears before booking, an argument its CEO has made since a 2009 Atlantic essay about his father's death.

Vercel is the deployment platform behind Next.js, now selling itself as infrastructure for AI agents as much as for frontend teams. Its stark monochrome geometry — one triangle, almost no color — set the house style an entire generation of developer tools still copies.

U.S. Graphics Company is Neil Panchal's one-person design office and type foundry, home of Berkeley Mono — a typeface sold as precision tooling for engineers. Its design philosophy is published right on the homepage as a table: dense not sparse, flat not hierarchical, don't infantilize users.

Frank Chimero is a designer and writer whose essays — The Web's Grain, What Screens Want — shaped how a generation thinks about designing for the browser. After a decade of famously redesigning his site in public, he has landed on a single monospaced index card.