Nathan Rooy

One million (small web) screenshots

Nathan Rooy One million (small web) screenshots Background Last month I came across onemillionscreenshots.com and was pleasantly surprised at how well it worked as a tool for discovery. We all know the adage about judging book covers, but here, …it just kinda works. Skip over the sites with bright flashy colors begging for attention and instead, seek out the negative space in between. The one nitpick I have though is in how they sourced the websites. They used the most popular websites from Common Crawl which is fine, but not really what I'm interested in… There are of course excepti

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