Notes on what's worth a click.
Short editorial posts from the NeighborhoodTreasure team — weekly roundups of rising sites, quietly-great category picks, and the occasional deep dive.
- September 4, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
Every category has one site stuck at #2
Every niche community has a graveyard of failed startups, but it also has a ghost ship that refuses to sink or sail into the harbor.
- September 3, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
What 'indie web' actually means in 2026
I spent the morning watching a synthetic voice narrate a slideshow of stolen Reddit comments on a platform that used to be for sharing photos of breakfast.
- September 2, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
Personal sites are back
The last time I felt truly at home on the internet, the cursor was a tiny, pixelated slice of pizza and the background was a tiled image of a nebula that didn't quite line up at the seams.
- September 1, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
Sites that look like they were made by exactly one person
I recently stumbled onto a website for a retired structural engineer that was basically one vertical mile of text.
- August 31, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
The comeback of the webring
I recently clicked a pixelated graphic of a purple dragon at the bottom of a site dedicated to 90s film scanners and found myself teleported to a digital garden about heirloom tomatoes.
- August 31, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
Quietly-great e-commerce sites worth a click
Most online shopping feels like shouting into a void and hoping a cardboard box appears two days later.
- August 29, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
Quietly-great restaurants sites worth a click
Most restaurant websites try to sell you on the ambiance, but the internet has a funny way of reclaiming digital real estate for higher stakes.
- August 28, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
Building a personal linkroll people actually visit
Building a personal linkroll people actually visit Most modern linkrolls look like a digital junk drawer where dead bookmarks go to rot.
- August 27, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
How to subscribe to a website that isn't trying to be subscribed to
How to subscribe to a website that isn't trying to be subscribed to I recently found a blog maintained by a retired bridge engineer who updates his site about once every fourteen months to complain about specific types of municipal concrete.
- August 27, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
Websites that make moving less brutal
Moving is the only socially acceptable way to pay several thousand dollars to lose your favorite socks and develop a stress-related facial twitch.
- August 25, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
Directories vs. algorithms: who's actually winning
I spent forty minutes last night watching a video of a man in a forest cleaning a rusty axe because an algorithm decided I was the type of person who needed a dopamine hit from power-washing.
- August 24, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
Why 'link in bio' broke the link
I spent twenty minutes yesterday trying to find a recipe for fermented hot sauce that I saw on a social feed, only to be redirected through three different landing pages, two interstitial ads, and a newsletter pop-up.
- August 23, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
The web's best footnotes
I spent twenty minutes yesterday reading a footnote about a 19th-century patent for a self-cleaning birdcage.
- August 22, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
When a forum outlives the company that owned it
The login screen still features a logo for a venture capital firm that liquidated its assets during the first Obama administration.
- August 21, 2026 · NeighborhoodTreasure Editors
The case for boring web design
I spent twenty minutes yesterday trying to read a recipe on a site that felt like a slot machine designed by a sociopath.