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WHY I
STARTED
THIS.

Maggie Philbin
Maggie Philbin
Host, 404: Boring Not Found
Gabbi Cat — Chief Vibes Officer
Cali Cat — Head of Delightful Content
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I've worked in tech since 2014. I've worked with over 200 startups. I've been in the room for IPOs, acquisitions, unicorn rounds, and more press releases than any human should reasonably read. I love this industry. I genuinely do.

Somewhere along the way, the internet got serious. Really serious. And I started to miss the parts that made it fun.

Tech used to spark joy. Marie Kondo would approve. I want that back.

I just had a baby. Six months old. And being on mat leave gave me something I hadn't had in years: too much time to think. I came back to work more curious than ever. Wondering — where did all the fun go? And more importantly, where is it hiding now?

Because here's the thing: the delightful stuff is still out there. Cool projects. Surprising ideas. People building things just because they thought it would be fun. The internet is full of it.

I miss my RSS reader. I miss StumbleUpon. I miss the internet before it started finishing my sentences. Discovery used to feel like a gift. Now it feels like an algorithm that already watched the movie and gave it 3 stars.

You can just do things. So I'm doing a thing.

404: Boring Not Found is my thing. I don't know exactly what it will become — and honestly that's the point. It's a place to find and share the parts of the internet that made me go "no way, I love that." Things I'm not pitching. Things nobody asked me to find. Things that just exist and are delightful.

If you're someone working on something genuinely cool — something delightful, something that makes people smile — I want to hear about it. Just a note that says: hey, I think you'd love this. And maybe I'll feature it.

Not everything has to be so serious. This is proof.

Got something delightful?

Tell me
about your
cool thing.

Found something on the internet that made you go "no way, I love that"? Send it my way. Could be anything — a project, a person, a thing that just exists and is delightful. I want to know about it. I want to share it.

I read everything. I respond to the fun ones.