- Great to see another IndieWeb project on the HN front page. The more the merrier. At this point, it almost feels like we need a meta-directory to keep track of them all. For others like me who are fond of these projects, here are a few other directories and indices worth checking out:
https://blogs.hn/ (by @surprisetalk)
https://hnpwd.github.io/ (I am one of the maintainers)
https://indieblog.page/ (by @splitbrain)
https://kagi.com/smallweb/ (by @freediver)
https://marginalia-search.com/ (by @marginalia_nu)
https://minifeed.net/ (by @freetonik)
https://susam.net/wander/ (I developed this)
https://text.blogosphere.app/ (announced by @ramkarthikk on 'Show HN' yesterday)
- I'm quite fond of https://ooh.directory/
- these are awesome. linking to all of them from III. i personally use Gossip's Web a lot (https://gossipsweb.net) to find new cool sites and wanted something similar but searchable. i also felt like i had a really good alliteration i couldnt waste
- Am I missing something? This doesn't seem to be an "index" at all. The name "index" made me think its trying to accomplish what marginalia is already doing
https://marginalia-search.com/
And stuff like Gossip's Web has been around for a decade now
IndieWeb also has a massive "web ring" that has a similar aim
- I don't think there is anything wrong with overlapping other projects, particularly when it's about surfacing the personal web.
- Yeah I'd prefer to be seen contributing to an ecosystem[1], rather than sucking all of the air out of web discovery.
[1] Of either collaboration or friendly competition. Keeps everyone involved honest.
- III is basically Gossips Web but searchable. users submit sites with descriptions used for semantic search
not a crawl-based index
- I can't seem to find the rules. How do I know if my site is in scope here? It it like Kagi's small web that's only for blogs, or does it need to be run by a <10-person company, or like what means "indie" here?
Viewing the submit page requires an email address and bugmenot@bugmenot.com does not work
- right now there are no rules, and im hoping i dont need to make any. only requirement to submit is email address validation
- How do you populate this index?
- entirely user submissions. think https://gossipsweb.net but with semantic search on user descriptions. fairly low key
- > Main Street Wealth helps to sell and buy Home Services businesses.
I like the site though.
- Looks nice. Will be adding crawls.in (Domains homepage screenshots)
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- tranners with delusions of grandeur amazinf
- the AI bots are not even trying now lol
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