“Literally Just Changed The Game For Me”: TikToker Shares 30 Websites That Almost Feel Illegal To Know
The internet has long expanded beyond any single human’s comprehension. As full of wonders as it is, there’s no way anyone could possibly know every single useful website out there. Fortunately, there are guides like SetupSpawn to help shine a light and find a path online.
It’s not the help I was looking for, but it is the help I needed. On his SetupSpawn TikTok page, “Matty McTech” creates bite-sized videos explaining what certain useful sites can help us do and shows us how they work. Usually, the sites are simple one-page online tools that perform really useful tasks for a specific need.
His selection of topics is as vast as the internet is, so it’s hard to put a finger on the types of interests his videos cover. However, that also means you’re practically guaranteed to find something useful for you, so check him out!
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With over 200 videos, there's a good chance he's reviewed a tool you need
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This is a good one for anyone trying to get in shape. Go to that website, pick your settings and body weight. And then what muscle you wanna work out. Gotta get that booty! And it'll give you all the workouts you can do for that muscle.
All of this is great, but it raises a question among the curious - how does one get into finding and reviewing cool niche websites and tools?
Bored Panda reached out to Matty McTech, the page's admin, to find out.
If you go to this website and then choose an MP3 to upload, I'm gonna pick AFRICA by Toto, it'll separate the music and the vocals from the track.
When we asked him how he got started with SetupSpawn, here's what he had to say:
"In 2016 I created the SetupSpawn Instagram page to show off cool computer setups I found online. Then as TikTok and Instagram Reels were gaining popularity, I thought it would be best to start making videos instead. I began posting short clips of useful websites I knew and they were immediately well received. 200+ websites later and here we are."
You can pick two movies with your significant other. I'm gonna pick John Wick and my imaginary girlfriend will pick The Notebook. And it'll give you a list of movie recommendations to satisfy both of you.
Did you know if you go to this website and type in the name of a city you want to visit, I'm gonna go with London, England, it'll give you a map of all the cool hidden places to eat and visit that not a lot of tourists know about. Like Platform Nine and Three Quarters and the Churchill War Rooms.
I don’t think they are secret places to visit, and the amount of people queuing to either get in at Kings Cross to the Harry Potter shop or have their photo at the 9 3/4 sign suggests otherwise!
One thing we were wondering is how McTech finds all these random websites to review. After all, how do you even know what to search for or where to find them? Here's what he had to say:
"A lot of the websites I show are just ones I've come across over years of surfing the internet. My followers also share some of their favorites which usually leads me down a rabbit hole of playing around with different sites for hours."
You can design your own clothing. I'm gonna do a dress. Add your body measurements. I'm gonna add some sleeves to it. Every dress needs some pockets, and when you're done, it'll actually give you the exact pattern you need to make it yourself.
Have you ever ate something at a restaurant that you want to recreate at home? Just go to this website, then you can search for a recipe or restaurant. I'm gonna search for Red Lobster and we gotta get them biscuits. And it'll give you the home recipe and instructions on how to make it.
It's only natural that, as a guide to tons of useful websites throughout the internet, McTech picked up a few websites that he found indispensable as well. So what types of websites does a guide to the internet use every day?
"All the AI tools like popping up recently have been fun to play around with, but most of the sites I use daily are usually productivity based. Something like Photopea when I don't have access to Photohop or TinyWow which has tons of different tools for files. Also I'm a gamer at heart, so websites like Geoguessr, Classic Reload, and Rankdle are always a nice distraction."
If you go to this website, you can actually copy an essay that you wrote, and then you can paste it on the website and it'll tell you how readable your essay is and everything that's wrong with it, so you can make it better.
If you wanna watch old shows from the '90s for free, go to this website and select what genres you want. I want cartoons and comedy. Hit the power button and enjoy. You can change the channels and change the years.
If you go to this website, you can listen to music from tons of countries in these decades.
It is very cool. I often use it to find new music from Mali.
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Another really cool website is Radio Garden (idk if its on the list considering this is only #7 atm) but it lets you listen to any radio station around the world! It can take a time to load all the stations though, so be patient. xP edit: Damn, since I last used it, users in the UK are unable to listen to stations outside of the UK. that sucks. but for anyone else.. have fun, I guess?
So is it only music that originated in that country or music that charted there? Because Australia for example, would have a ton of US and UK songs charting for any given decade.
Sidenote: I've been listening to radio stations around the globe for years, thanks to the internet.
The prevalence of powerful online-available tools is just another step in the evolution of the internet. In the days of yore, the internet was largely limited to static pages of text and pictures. Now, we can access cloud drives and use powerful tools like AI engines just by visiting a website!
You can type in an Excel formula you need help creating. 'I wanna remove all the letters from a string of characters' and I need it for Google Sheets and click 'generate', and the AI will create a formula that you can use. All you need to do is copy it and paste it in your sheet, and it looks like it worked.
Oh, excellent. I don’t use excel that much, possibly because I end up needing my calculator a lot when I do choose to use it, and I could never be arsed to do a whole course or tutorial. This could come in very handy, assuming it actually works.
If you are at a restaurant or store without internet, just go to this website, find the place that you're at on the map, click it, and it'll give you the wifi password for their network.
If you ever accidentally spill something and need to remove a stain, just go to this website and search for the type of stain you have. Then find what you spilled it on, and it'll tell you all the things that you need and all the steps you need to do to clean it.
I hope they dont go like art attack, "you're gonna need scissors, a glue, paper, a rock you can only find in the Hawaiian volcano, a flower that only grows once a year..."
We do want to point out that you should manage your expectations. Most of these tools are quite powerful and highly accessible, but not all of them are free. And this is quite understandable. Just consider the complexity of running some of these services! After developing the tool itself, the owners also have to run or at least rent the server that makes their tool accessible to the world. All of that takes time and money, and most of these tools need some way to cover their operating costs.
Have you ever been watching your favorite TV show and wonder where they got their outfits from? Just go to this website. Then you can type in the TV show or the character. Then you can pick the exact episode or click a character. Just click on them and there's Penny's outfit from that scene.
So everyone knows about amazon.com, but if you go to amazon.com/outlet, you can find thousands of Amazon Overstock items that have great deals. There's 20 to 50% off deals all over the place.
If you're trying to go on a diet, go to this website. Then you can click on the type of food you're trying to eat. We'll go vegan. Type in how many calories and meals you want to eat per day. Then hit generate. Then it'll give you a meal plan that fits your calorie restrictions.
If you don't like one of the foods or meals, just hit the refresh button and it'll give you a new one.
Are they gonna get the food and go through the diet for me?
If you go to this website, you can paste an article or some text that you have, I'm gonna do this email I need to send, then choose the tone that you want. I'm gonna go with formal and hit rewrite. It'll automatically rewrite your text to make it sound way better.
Of course, not every website on this list is a tool. In some cases, like the Amazon outlet page, SetupSpawn explores a site familiar to many and finds valuable sub-pages that not everybody might know about.
If you go to this website, you can type your road trip information. We're gonna do LA to Seatle and it'll show you the route that you can take and fun places that you can stop along the way. And there's the Pixie Woods. Definitely stop in there.
Did you know if you go to this website, you can get help creating a resume by adding any of this content? I'm gonna add my education first, and when you type your information, it'll add it on the screen and when you're done, you can start designing or just pick a template. And now, I'm ready to go apply at Google.
Are you tired of stores calling the same piece of furniture a different name and charging way more for it? Just go to this website, then you can find the product that you're trying to buy. I'm just gonna go with this one and it'll show you what the original was and the other stores that had that same product under a different name.
It's almost $500 cheaper.
"how to train dog to rob bank" um is no one going to mention that other tab?
You can search for one of your school textbooks in the search bar. Then you can pick a chapter that you're on and a problem from that chapter you need to solve, and it'll give you the step-by-step solution to solve that problem.
This would have made my school days very, very different. I just had the library, and an impatient dad who could not comprehend how such a STEM guy ended up with such daughter hopeless at maths….
Did you know if you go to this website and type in a random prompt, I'm gonna do a 'courtroom sketch of Yoda versus Chewbacca trial,' the AI will generate random pictures of your prompt.
I've used this for a bp post! I put in some usernames as prompts, it was... interesting
If you found at least one site on this list useful, we recommend giving SetupSpawn a follow! I know I’ve found a few that I’m going to spend some time with.
If you go to this website and then type in a company's name, I'm gonna do Lululemon, it'll actually give you a list of all their suppliers and shipments and some more information about their shipments, including a map of where it's coming from.
Did you know if you go to this website, you can find a list of Netflix secret category codes. Just watch. I'm gonna do superhero and comic books. If you search for the code on Netflix, it'll display all the shows and movies related to that code.
I don't understand the point of this. Why not just do a word search on Netflix?
If you go to this website and pick any of these work categories, I'm gonna go with tasks and services, it'll give you tons of different platforms that you can make money on. Just click on one and it'll tell you the equipment that you need and the average pay.
If you go to this website, you can upload a picture of a room or any part of your house. I'm gonna go with this boring backyard, and then you can ask the AI to make any of these changes to your picture. Let's add a resort style pool and we'll make it have black tile and it'll generate new ideas for your room based on your prompts.
This is going to tie in nicely with the hours I spend looking at houses I’ll never be able to afford…
Did you know if you go to Google and search for this and click the first link, you can use these controls to randomly generate a map for D&D or Writing? Here's a map I created and if you actually zoom in on a city and click on it, you'll be able to edit that city and look at the map of it.
Well ... if I ever run out of books ... I'm creating ShaZam Land
If you go to this website, you can use these filters to pick different things. Let's go with food and a main entry. It'll give you a list of tons of free things that you can find when it's your birthday. Oh, it's my favorite restaurant. 10 free wings.
If you go to this website, you can type a game you're wanting to buy in the search bar. I'm gonna go Red Dead Redemption 2. Click on it and it'll give you a list of websites to have the best deals for that game.
This is going straight to the top of my bookmarks bar...unfortunately for me and my wallet
Pick any of these categories. I'm gonna go with musicians. Yeah, let's go with pop music, then you can pick a voice you want to use. We're gonna go with The Weeknd, then type what you want 'em to say in here and hit speak.
I just went to try this and it put me in a queue of ~1783. It took 5 minutes to drop 20 places, and at that rate (if I estimated correctly) it would have taken around 8 hours for my message to be spoken, but while I was working it out, the queue actually went up, and there is no indication on the site as to where you are in the queue, just that there are X amount of messages in the queue, so who knows when the message will be played. (there is an option to pay of course)
Did you know if you go to this website and enter in your mini craft seed number, it'll generate the entire map for you. You can even select which features you want to see and it'll update the map for you. Let's go find this guy right here.
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And it looks like 4.7 million followers (and counting) have found his tips helpful
Yes, a couple in a whole load of meh-to-nopes. Notice how "TikTok" is not a "website you should know about" =).
Load More Replies... Nice to see a post that is like something of the old BP; informative, helpful and entertaining. Not just another self obsessed attention seeking bull with makeup scenarios about how someone complied with some rule or other and how they outsmarted everyone or that other nonsense constantly asking AITA? Here's a universal to all of those posts, yes you are the biggest a******e ever no matter the context. Sorry about the rant but stop looking for constant validation or attention from strangers and just give everyone peace. Also it's ruined BP.
Same. Procrastination, here I come! Eventually.
Load More Replies... I can’t help but agree with my husband’s (weirdly blasé) remark - that his job as a copywriter and product blogger is going to become obsolete in the not-too-far future. We really didn’t think this utopic “robots can do everyone’s job!” thing through in a lot of regards. These are all super fun and helpful, but I do worry about where it’s all going, especially with regard to the development of imagination too.
Temp-mail.org u can use disposable email addresses so you're not giving your email to random websiteds
I have some I've gotten off of Pinterest called "Life Hacks." They have one where you can put in ingredients from your pantry and it will give you a recipe. One that helps with math; one that gives tourist attractions along your travel route; baking hacks; health hacks; cleaning hacks. I love them!
Is anyone else getting an entirely different article below this one? It's been happening a lot lately.
Would've been nice to include the price some of these sites charge for their usefulness in the post.
This list in two words : "But moooooooooooooom" Frankly excruciating levels of zoomer entitlement and laziness. One of them even flips to the back of a book YOU'RE HOLDING, for you, and coughs up the answers. That honestly broke my brain for a minute.
I would also recommend earthclinic.com Just search for an ailment and a plethra of natural remedies come up for you to try. This site is my go to when I'm sick before I head to the doctor.
I'll add a handy one for regx expressions. It's good if you have a block of text (eg: a log file) and you want to extract certain values; like dates or email addresses. https://codepal.ai/regex-generator
I found 8-10 useful sites for work & play. Who knew??! Setup Spawn I guess LOL I do not HAVE TikTok. Nor do I really WANT TikTok. But I'm now very tempted to GET TikTok :)
Here's a website that some of you might find fun/interesting/helpful: TheresAnAIForThat.com https://theresanaiforthat.com/alphabetical/
Yes, a couple in a whole load of meh-to-nopes. Notice how "TikTok" is not a "website you should know about" =).
Load More Replies... Nice to see a post that is like something of the old BP; informative, helpful and entertaining. Not just another self obsessed attention seeking bull with makeup scenarios about how someone complied with some rule or other and how they outsmarted everyone or that other nonsense constantly asking AITA? Here's a universal to all of those posts, yes you are the biggest a******e ever no matter the context. Sorry about the rant but stop looking for constant validation or attention from strangers and just give everyone peace. Also it's ruined BP.
Same. Procrastination, here I come! Eventually.
Load More Replies... I can’t help but agree with my husband’s (weirdly blasé) remark - that his job as a copywriter and product blogger is going to become obsolete in the not-too-far future. We really didn’t think this utopic “robots can do everyone’s job!” thing through in a lot of regards. These are all super fun and helpful, but I do worry about where it’s all going, especially with regard to the development of imagination too.
Temp-mail.org u can use disposable email addresses so you're not giving your email to random websiteds
I have some I've gotten off of Pinterest called "Life Hacks." They have one where you can put in ingredients from your pantry and it will give you a recipe. One that helps with math; one that gives tourist attractions along your travel route; baking hacks; health hacks; cleaning hacks. I love them!
Is anyone else getting an entirely different article below this one? It's been happening a lot lately.
Would've been nice to include the price some of these sites charge for their usefulness in the post.
This list in two words : "But moooooooooooooom" Frankly excruciating levels of zoomer entitlement and laziness. One of them even flips to the back of a book YOU'RE HOLDING, for you, and coughs up the answers. That honestly broke my brain for a minute.
I would also recommend earthclinic.com Just search for an ailment and a plethra of natural remedies come up for you to try. This site is my go to when I'm sick before I head to the doctor.
I'll add a handy one for regx expressions. It's good if you have a block of text (eg: a log file) and you want to extract certain values; like dates or email addresses. https://codepal.ai/regex-generator
I found 8-10 useful sites for work & play. Who knew??! Setup Spawn I guess LOL I do not HAVE TikTok. Nor do I really WANT TikTok. But I'm now very tempted to GET TikTok :)
Here's a website that some of you might find fun/interesting/helpful: TheresAnAIForThat.com https://theresanaiforthat.com/alphabetical/
