Random Daily Urls vs Video Database

Random Daily Urls is a collaborative project between you and curator Steven Irby, designed to rediscover the authentic soul of the internet together. It operates as a free, daily email newsletter that delivers one carefully selected URL to your inbox, Monday through Friday. This initiative is built on a shared mission: to cut through the digital noise of SEO-optimized lists, generic tips, and commercial content, and instead, highlight the weird, wonderful, and human-made corners of the web. It’s for individuals who miss the personality of early personal websites and believe the most interesting discoveries are made through genuine, unguided exploration. By working in tandem—Steven as the dedicated internet archaeologist and you as the curious explorer—this service fosters a unique synergy. It offers a daily moment of surprise and intellectual partnership, proving that the web is still very much alive with creativity waiting to be uncovered by a like-minded community.

The Video Database began as an internal solution to a common frustration: as creators and content strategists we need to "study the best," but this typically means endless scrolling through social platforms riding the algo waves - good or bad. Nobody needs more of that.

Cut30, our short-form video bootcamp, maintains hundreds of hand-curated reference videos throughout its curriculum—valuable examples embedded within tutorials, exercises, and lessons. However, these references were scattered across the platform without centralized organization or analysis. What started as simply organizing and categorizing those videos, was a slippery slope.