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A daily showcase of early-stage startups looking for their first users, sorted by topic. A preview of what might be everywhere next year.
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BetaList sits in Portals & Directories under Weird, filed as coffee break.
About this category: The other directories, random buttons and curated indexes. We are one of these; it would be dishonest to pretend the others are not worth your time.
Yes. BetaList is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use BetaList without signing up for anything.
Yes. BetaList works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
A long-running directory of wonderful things: odd gadgets, art, science and internet culture, posted every day by a small team of editors.
The original boredom portal, still sorting thousands of time-wasters into categories with no discernible editorial filter.
Curated stumble button that sends you somewhere good rather than somewhere random, with categories if you are feeling fussy.
The volunteer-edited web directory that outlived DMOZ, still organising the internet into a category tree by hand.
Maths explained by intuition first and formulas second, by someone who clearly resented how he was taught it.
The personality model psychologists actually use, in a clean 120-question version with a proper breakdown of every facet.
A countdown big enough to read from the back of the room, which is the only real requirement a workshop timer has.
A blog that has been finding the best browser escape and point-and-click games every week since 2005, and is still posting.
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