What is NeighborhoodTreasure?
NeighborhoodTreasure is a public index of the live web. We continuously discover, verify, and catalog the websites that make up today's internet — across every category and region — and surface them in a transparent, ad-free feed. Think of it as a window into what people are actually building and shipping online, updated around the clock by an automated pipeline rather than by an editorial team.
Every listing on the site is a real, reachable website. We pull each domain's own public metadata — title, description, favicon, OpenGraph image — to build the card, then layer on signals from open sources to rank it. There are no user reviews, no AI-generated summaries, and no sponsored slots. What you see is what each site says about itself.
Why we built it
The way most people find new websites in 2026 is broken. Search engines have become answer engines that send you fewer outbound clicks every year. Social feeds optimize for engagement, not discovery. Curated lists go stale within months. Product Hunt and similar communities favor a narrow slice of launch-day SaaS. Meanwhile, millions of genuinely interesting independent sites, tools, blogs, and projects never get a fair shot at being seen.
We wanted a place that worked the way a good directory used to work — comprehensive, neutral, and fast — but powered by modern signals and updated continuously instead of by a small editorial team. NeighborhoodTreasure is our answer.
What makes us different
- Coverage over curation. If we can confirm a public domain exists, it stays in the index — even when enrichment is incomplete. We don't gatekeep.
- Open signals only. All ranking inputs come from public sources: the Tranco top-1M list, Hacker News, GitHub trending, public RSS feeds, and the open web index. No private platform scraping.
- No accounts, no votes. There's nothing to sign up for and no way to game the rankings with a brigade. The feed is the same for everyone.
- No paid placement, ever. We do not sell ranking, badges, "featured" slots, or removal from competitors' results. Money cannot move a listing.
- Transparent methodology. Every signal, score, and filter is documented on the Methodology and Data Sources pages.
Our principles
A few rules guide every product decision we make. They're short on purpose — they have to be easy to apply when we're deciding whether to ship a feature.
- Public data only. Nothing behind a login, paywall, or scrape that violates a platform's terms.
- No engagement theater. No like counts, follower counts, fake view numbers, or trending badges that don't mean anything.
- No editorial spin. Each site speaks for itself with its own metadata. We don't write reviews on anyone's behalf.
- Removal on request. If you operate a listed site and want it out, the removal page takes one form.
- Privacy by default. No tracking cookies, no third-party analytics chains, no profile of you.
Who's behind it
NeighborhoodTreasure is built and operated by StarNest LLC, an independent software studio. We are not venture-backed and do not take advertiser money — which means our incentives stay aligned with the people browsing the site rather than with whoever is willing to pay the most.
The product is a small, focused effort: a continuously running ingestion pipeline, an opinionated ranking algorithm, and a frontend designed to get out of your way. That's it. No roadmap-driven feature bloat, no quarterly growth targets, no "engagement loops."
How to use the site
There are a few good entry points depending on what you're looking for:
- Hot — what's getting the most attention right now across our signal sources.
- New — sites we discovered for the first time in the past few days.
- Rising — sites whose activity is accelerating against their own baseline.
- Categories — browse by topic (AI, design, dev tools, news, ecommerce, and more).
- Regions — explore what's being built in specific countries and regions.
- Search — full-text search across titles, descriptions, and domains.
Get in touch
Press, partnership, correction, or just curious? Reach us via the contact page. If you operate a listed site and want it removed or updated, the removal request form is the fastest path.
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