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:
Personally, I use https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/ to feed my search engine / crawler. It contains 30k + rss/atom feeds of indie web sites. Thx for sharing this and the other directories.
SyneRyder 12 hours ago [-]
Oh cool, you have your own search engine & crawler? I don't suppose you've written / blogged about it anywhere?
(I have my own search engine too, but still haven't blogged about it. One day.)
I recently built a Small Web Discovery feature for the WebLibre Android browser that unifies multiple sources (currently only Wander and Kagi Small Web). The feature is still very alpha, in the upcoming weeks I will look into adding more sources. Documentation here: https://docs.weblibre.eu/weblibre/small-web.html and there are some screenshots in this Wander issue: https://codeberg.org/susam/wander/issues/11
freshman_dev 22 hours ago [-]
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
nidnogg 8 hours ago [-]
I'm baffled that I only knew wiby.me from this list. Time to dive in!
ramkarthikk 13 hours ago [-]
Thank you for sharing text.blogosphere. This is a cool list, and I love the wander page you've built.
I run a small ASCII art database (aahub.org) that's been going since 2017. Projects like this matter because the indie web's biggest problem isn't discovery — it's loneliness. You build something for years, and sometimes it feels like no one else is out there doing the same thing.
culi 1 days ago [-]
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
I don't think there is anything wrong with overlapping other projects, particularly when it's about surfacing the personal web.
marginalia_nu 23 hours ago [-]
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.
freshman_dev 1 days ago [-]
III is basically Gossips Web but searchable. users submit sites with descriptions used for semantic search
not a crawl-based index
rednafi 11 hours ago [-]
It's super satisfying to search for my own blog on an indie aggregator and finding it there already.
there_is_try 9 hours ago [-]
This reminds me of sacredmtn.com, I miss that site. Does anyone here know the creators of that site and what they might be doing now ?
lucb1e 21 hours ago [-]
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
freshman_dev 21 hours ago [-]
right now there are no rules, and im hoping i dont need to make any. only requirement to submit is email address validation
jl6 13 hours ago [-]
Is this being attacked by people pushing their commercial sites into it, or are those ads?
freshman_dev 9 hours ago [-]
not ads. submissions are open and good faith. im trying not to police other than rating exceedingly promotional commercial things 1 star
cosmicgadget 1 days ago [-]
> Main Street Wealth helps to sell and buy Home Services businesses.
I like the site though.
harmonyinfotech 1 days ago [-]
Looks nice. Will be adding crawls.in (Domains homepage screenshots)
zx8080 18 hours ago [-]
Is it an index of nice sites for someone's LLM training set?
aavci 22 hours ago [-]
How do you populate this index?
freshman_dev 21 hours ago [-]
entirely user submissions. think https://gossipsweb.net but with semantic search on user descriptions. fairly low key
Cider9986 20 hours ago [-]
Ah yes, the indie internet index, which does not load without javascript and has no source code linked.
freshman_dev 18 hours ago [-]
i think you were looking for the Old & Obsolete Online Ossuary - indie sites are allowed to use react and be closed source
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https://blogroll.org/
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)
https://wiby.me/
(I have my own search engine too, but still haven't blogged about it. One day.)
Going to dig into these soon and will post a few!
https://slashpages.net
https://marginalia-search.com/
And stuff like Gossip's Web has been around for a decade now
https://gossipsweb.net/
IndieWeb also has a massive "web ring" that has a similar aim
https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/
[1] Of either collaboration or friendly competition. Keeps everyone involved honest.
not a crawl-based index
Viewing the submit page requires an email address and bugmenot@bugmenot.com does not work
I like the site though.