Cloudhiker feels like a love letter to the old internet in the best possible way. If you can remember the old days of StumbleUpon, where you spent hours discovering new and interesting sites from all over the web, it’s like that but better.
It’s incredibly simple too: just click “Start Exploring” on the homepage, and Cloudhiker serves up hand-picked websites from all sorts of topics. Each site in its database has been selected by the community of users and vetted by site admins.
That community angle is a big part of the appeal. Cloudhiker isn’t just a random-link generator; it’s a curated discovery platform. The site frames itself as a place to find the internet’s most interesting, weird, and awesome websites, and that description feels pretty dead on.
I used to love StumbleUpon and would spend countless hours of dead time perusing the web with it. And just like its predecessor, Cloudhiker is the kind of thing you open for five minutes and then realize you’ve been happily wandering around for an hour.
The site started as a community of avid users and has grown by leaps and bounds. Cloudhiker’s database has reached almost 30,000 websites in total. Just in 2025 alone it added over 8,300 new sites, which gives you a pretty good idea of how active and oddly passionate this community is.
If your web browsing has started to feel stale, Cloudhiker is a great reset button. It brings back that older, more adventurous feeling of being online. Where the internet felt like a new frontier— less like a feed and more like a place to explore.
Author: Sam Singleton, Assistant Editor, PCWorld
Sam Singleton is PCWorld's VPN beat reporter and jack of all trades. When he's not on the hunt for the best computer deals he's covering VPNs, productivity software, laptops, and a wide gamut of consumer-grade hardware and software.