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matdoes.dev lists several projects that have nothing to do with Minecraft. The main ones are metasearch2 (a metasearch engine), seized.fyi (an archive of government website seizure banners), Internet Roadtrip Pathfinder (reverse-engineering a web game and Google Street View for pathfinding), Web Utils (developer utilities), and matdoesdev-protocols (mirrors of this site over SSH, Telnet, Gemini, Gopher, and other protocols). The site presents these as ongoing personal projects, so treat the list as a catalog of what exists rather than a product page with feature guarantees.
Search and archiving projects
metasearch2
Listed as running from 2023 to now, described as a "cute and efficient metasearch engine." A metasearch engine queries other search engines and combines their results rather than maintaining its own index. The site gives no further detail on which engines it draws from or how results are ranked, so if you want to use it, go in expecting a small personal project and judge the result quality yourself.
An earlier version, metasearch v1, ran from 2020 to 2023 and is described as a "simple metasearch engine" — the current project is its successor.
seized.fyi
Running from 2024 to now, this is "an archive of every website seizure banner created by government agencies." Seizure banners are the notices agencies place on domains they have taken over. The project is useful if you want to look at or reference these banners as a collection; the site does not state how often it updates or how complete the archive is beyond the "every" claim in its own description.
Reverse-engineering and developer tools
Internet Roadtrip Pathfinder
Running from 2025 to now, described as "reverse-engineering a web game and Google Street View for optimal pathfinding." This is an exploration project: the author studies how a browser game and Street View work in order to compute optimal routes. It is interesting as a write-up of technique, not as a tool you install.
Web Utils
Running from 2021 to now, "a website with convenient utilities for software developers." The listing does not name the individual utilities, so check the site itself before relying on it for a specific task.
matdoesdev-protocols
Running from 2023 to now, this "mirrors this website with implementations of SSH, Telnet, Gemini, Gopher, and others." In other words, the same content is served over older or alternative protocols. This matters if you want to read the site from a terminal or a Gemini/Gopher client instead of a browser.
Other non-Minecraft entries
| Project | Years | What the site says |
|---|---|---|
| Variance | 2023–2025 | An opinionated fork of Cinny (a Matrix client) aimed at aligning more closely with Discord |
| x227f | 2023–now | Web crawler for 88x31 buttons (the small web badges) |
| i.matdoes.dev / Old i.matdoes.dev | 2021–2023 / 2019–2021 | Simple image hosts, both listed as ended |
| Repldex | 2018–2020 | Collaborative wiki for Replit lore |
| Repl Talk API / Repl Talk Bot | 2019–2022 / 2018–2020 | Python wrapper for Replit's forum API and a Discord bot bridging Repl Talk |
How to decide what's worth your time
- Want a search alternative: try metasearch2, but compare its results against a mainstream engine before adopting it.
- Researching takedowns or banners: seized.fyi is the direct fit.
- Reading from a terminal: use the protocol mirrors.
- Looking for a specific developer utility: open Web Utils and check the actual list, since the site doesn't enumerate them.
- Historical or niche interest: the Replit-era projects and x227f are archived or ongoing side projects rather than maintained services.
One caution: the site's only pricing signal is the word "purchase," and no project page states that anything is free or requires login. Don't assume access terms — check each project's own page before depending on it.