What Offset is
Offset is a free, human-curated web index. We catalogue 794 working websites across 22 sections, sorting them by hand so the open web stays browsable — the way a good printed index always was.
How sites get in
There is no algorithm and no auction. A person reads each submission, drops obvious spam, and presses the rest into the right section. That keeps every run of domains honest and worth scanning.
What a listing costs
Nothing, ever. Listing is free for everyone, with no upsell waiting on the next page. We do not sell placement and we do not rank by who paid — the order is plain and the same for all.
Submitting your site
Pick the section that fits, paste your URL, and you are in within a minute. If you leave the description blank, we fetch a short one for you. Run your site through the press and it joins the index straight away.
Why bother with an index in 22 sections
Search engines guess what you want. An index just shows you the sites, grouped the way a person would group them. For discovery — finding the good corners of a topic rather than the loudest ones — a hand-kept index still beats a feed.