A hand-kept field-book of the web’s quieter corners — 796 sites mapped across 22 sections. Wander a shelf, or pin your own site to the map.
Pick a section, drop your URL, and it’s logged in under a minute. No fee, no catch — always free.
+ Log a siteA small editorial team. Every submission is read by a person before the pin goes live, and we periodically walk the shelves to prune stale or broken sites.
Yes. There is no fee at any point — not for the listing, not for placement, not for keeping the pin. The field-book is funded as a long-running side project, not as a business.
Right now 796 sites are pinned across 22 sections. The number creeps up steadily as new submissions come in and stale entries are pulled.
We look for a working homepage, an honest description and a fit with one of our 22 sections. We aren’t a quality jury — we just say no to spam, scams and malware.
Usually a minute. The form auto-fetches your description if you leave it blank, files the pin under the section you chose, and the site is live immediately.
Yes. Send a note via the submission page — include the URL and what you’d like changed (description, section, removal) and we’ll handle it by hand.
Outbound links are marked nofollow noopener as standard. The point of the field-book is discovery, not link-building, though humans visiting humans is always welcome.
Because a hand-kept field-book serves the curious reader in ways a ranked results page doesn’t. Wandering a section is a different kind of browsing — slower, less manipulated, often more rewarding.
Compass is a small editorial team’s field-book of the working web — a hand-kept catalog of sites organised by section, pinned by people rather than ranked by algorithms. Anyone can submit a site for free; every entry is read and pinned by hand.
We write about each section in plain field-notes voice: a sentence or two about what the section is for, who tends to read it, and what counts as a fair listing. The point is to make it easier for a curious visitor to wander from one corner of the open web to the next without falling through a hole in someone’s ranking algorithm.
If you keep a useful website — large or small, indie or institutional — pin it to the map. Listing is free, fast, and pleasant. The field-book is open.