The nominees are...
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The judges have finished looking over all the nominations for the Tiny Awards 2025, the scores have been totted up, we have our shortlist, and VOTING IS OPEN! Tell your friends!
To just go right ahead, see the shortlist and cast your vote, click here: https://tinyawards.net/vote/
Below, though, we thought we would tell you a little bit about each shortlisted site, and some of the judges’ thoughts - read on to learn more about what made the cut this year…
- 10k Drum Machines: A project to collect 10,000 individual, playful, weird drum machines in one place (as yet it’s some way of 10,000, but give it a year or two). Judge Pietro Minto said “I love drum machines and I love websites. Perfect combination, endless fun.”
- Fifty Thousand Names: A website hard-coding messages of grief for each martyr in Gaza since October 2023. Poignant, sad and powerful.
- I Feel So Much Shame: A website about shame and desire, which Neal Agarwal described as “a mix of a visual novel and website...it's captivating and it pushes the medium forward in a way that's really exciting.”
- Consumed Today: A site tracking what its creator consumes each day, which Kai Branch said was “a fascinating journalling experiment that blurs the line between nourishment and noise, inviting us to reflect on what a truly balanced diet looks like in both body and mind.”
- Internet Road Trip: Letting the collective will of the internet take an infinite road trip through Google Maps, this project has spawned community and connection in real life, and, as Andy Baio said, “has touched the physical world in strange and magical ways.”
- Nest: A beautiful, remarkable, and strangely-emotional musical collage toy…thing, which has to be experienced rather than explained.
- Elle’s Homepage: Elle’s personal website, which is a gorgeous example of how a url can be home. Kim Lê Boutin told us “I just love this website, I wish I had a website like this one!”
- Traffic Cam Photobooth: A project which lets people take selfies with the many, many traffic cameras in New York City, riffing on surveillance, narcissism and the idea of the digital panopticon.
- Cloudgazing: Making pictures with clouds. As Rob Manuel said, “Well this is charming isn't it - I drew some lovely animals.”
- Historical Tech Tree: A frankly-incredible project seeking to encapsulate humanity’s technological progress in one place. As Pietro said, “You could pass hundreds of hours on this thing, just an immense archive and a great work.”
- Dial-a-Website: A website anyone can edit by dialing a phone number and describing what they want to change about it; frivolous, pointless and sort-of-magical.
Thanks again for being interested in the Tiny Awards and the creative, non-commercial web! Please do spread the word about the shortlist and the voting - we think this is a wonderful selection of websites, and we would love them to be seen by as wide an audience as possible.
Voting is closes on 1 September, so there’s a whole month for people to pick their favourite. We will be back in touch with one more email after that to announce the winner!
With care,
The Tiny Awards Team