Zombo.com
Ranked 4 of 12 novelty websites by recommenders
Recommended as an endlessly absurd, joyful web toy where you can do anything. Main caveat: the original domain was sniped and now hosts AI-generated replacements.
Recommended as an endlessly absurd, joyful web toy where you can do anything. Main caveat: the original domain was sniped and now hosts AI-generated replacements.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 67%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Never gets old, endlessly joyful
“continues to bring me as much joy as zombocom”
Comment from 11 Mar 2026 in “Personal Computer by Perplexity” “It will never, ever, get old.”
Comment from 2 Apr 2026 in “ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover” “Zombo.com is the place to be.”
Comment from 27 Sep 2026 in “PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura” Do anything you want
“you can do anything at zombocom. anything at all. the only limit is yourself.”
Comment from 2 Apr 2026 in “ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover” “whoever snatched it replaced the audio with AI generated shit”
Comment from 11 Mar 2026 in “Personal Computer by Perplexity” Seen as underrated classic
“this is the single most underrated website ever”
Comment from 10 Dec 2025 in “Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control” “Zombo.com is the place to be.”
Comment from 27 Sep 2026 in “PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
AI-generated replacement of original
“im still so sour that the domain got sniped and now hosts some mockery of what used to be zombo.com”
Comment from 28 Sep 2026 in “PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura” “whoever snatched it replaced the audio with AI generated shit”
Comment from 11 Mar 2026 in “Personal Computer by Perplexity” “Crappy flash gets replaced by crappy ai gen.”
Comment from 2 Apr 2026 in “ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover” Original domain was sniped
“im still so sour that the domain got sniped and now hosts some mockery of what used to be zombo.com”
Comment from 28 Sep 2026 in “PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura” Lost its original charm
“im still so sour that the domain got sniped and now hosts some mockery of what used to be zombo.com”
Comment from 28 Sep 2026 in “PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura” “lost something ineffable in the process”
Comment from 13 Sep 2026 in “Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)”
Other novelty websites people recommend
The four most recommended other novelty websites, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catch a Bird | 39 | 3 | 93% | 1 | — | — |
| Koi.rest | 18 | 11 | 62% | 1 | — | — |
| neal.fun | 15 | 5 | 75% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Zombo.comThis page | 8 | 4 | 67% | 4 | — | — |
| Pumpkins.sh | 7 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“im still so sour that the domain got sniped and now hosts some mockery of what used to be zombo.com”
“Zombo.com is the place to be.”
“lost something ineffable in the process”
“Crappy flash gets replaced by crappy ai gen.”
“It will never, ever, get old.”
“you can do anything at zombocom. anything at all. the only limit is yourself.”
“However you can still do anything at https://html5zombo.com/”
“whoever snatched it replaced the audio with AI generated shit”
“continues to bring me as much joy as zombocom”
“the animation and audio together made it easy to tell when machines were getting out of sync”
“this is the single most underrated website ever”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.