The best useless websites, all still working
A useless website is one that does exactly one thing, badly needs no reason to exist, and is somehow better for it. No sign-up, no onboarding, no product. Somebody had an idea at two in the morning and shipped it.
The problem with most lists of these is that half the links are dead. Useless websites are hobby projects, and hobby projects lapse — the domain expires, the host shuts down, the Flash plugin they needed stopped existing in 2020. Every site below was loaded in a real browser before this was published, and anything that failed was cut rather than left in.
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Pointer Pointerpointerpointer.com
The purest form of the genre. Move your mouse; a photograph of a real person pointing at exactly that spot appears. It should not work as well as it does.
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Cat Bouncecat-bounce.com
Cats. Falling. That is the entire website, and it has been running for over a decade.
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Rotating Sandwichesrotatingsandwiches.com
Sandwiches, rotating. No commentary, no explanation, no end.
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Popcatpopcat.click
A cat that pops when clicked, which became a global competition between countries for reasons nobody has adequately explained.
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OMFG Dogsomfgdogs.com
Dogs, set to music, forever. One of the oldest survivors on this list.
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Staggering Beautystaggeringbeauty.com
Move your mouse and find out. Best experienced without being told first.
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Long Doge Challengelongdogechallenge.com
A doge that stretches as far as you are willing to keep scrolling. People have gone a very long way.
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What's My Starbucks Namewhatsmystarbucksname.com
Enter your name, receive the name Starbucks would have written on the cup. Uncomfortably accurate.
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The honest way to use a list like this is not to read it. Press the red button instead — it draws from the same catalogue, at random, and remembers what it has shown you so nothing repeats.
Questions
What is the most useless website?
Pointer Pointer is the usual answer, and the fairest one: it does nothing but find a photograph of somebody pointing at your cursor. It has no purpose, no business model and no reason to exist, which is precisely the point.
Are these useless websites safe?
Every site here is a hand-picked hobby project or art piece, loaded and checked in a real browser. None asks for a login, a download or a payment. They open inside Click the Red Button rather than sending you off somewhere unknown.
Every site above was loaded in a real browser and verified working before this was published. See the full catalogue.