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Hey, it's Elliott (creator of Gossip's Web, Special Fish https://special.fish, and other projects (https://elliott.computer). Thanks for checking out Gossips. There's a renewed interest in building websites by hand using basic but powerful tools (HTML/CSS/a little JavaScript). Gossip's is a directory of some of these sites and lets you submit your own.

The submission criteria is pretty straight forward (no links to social media or website builders). Also, please don't submit your latest startup : ) . Personal websites, web experiments, and small community sites are all very welcome. The $1 submission fee goes toward running/maintaining the directory (I make about $3-5/month on submissions so it's not about the money). Happy to answer any questions the HN community might have and have a nice weekend!

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Your search appears to not work.

For example, I'll enter "fiction" and it will return "Found 0 websites related to fiction". But I see one with the "fiction" tag listed right on the first page.

Same goes for the "programming" tag. And "meditation".

I submitted. When does it appear in the directory?

Thanks for submitting. I got quite a few submissions from the HN traffic. Going through them now to make sure they meet the criteria.

Hey there it is. If it was a snake it woulda bit me.

What is the color picker for?

Looks like each site is assigned a color which displays as a square 'thumbnail' alongside it in listings.

I don't see any meaning to the colors, so I guess it's whatever color you feel represents your site?

A word of warning: you’ll have to browse or crawl these pages periodically at minimum.

Best case would be to diff the latest page with various IPs and user-agents against the known and then let you know when it changes. Someone will inevitably submit a page that looks good, then changes later or dynamically depending on datetime, user-agent, request IP, etc. to become malicious.

Unfortunately, these are the sorts of problems that many companies have to deal with automatically (like Google) or manually that startups don’t typically.

While you’re charging, if someone can get by with paying $1 for installing ransomware, they may do it.

It’s a neat idea, but it’s risky. I like what you’ve done, though, and hope the artisanal webpage index pays for itself and more quickly.

Or he could just take people's word that they're honest human beings. You know — default to believing that people are good, not evil.

Since he's charging to be on the list, there a very low chance that he'll get flooded with bots from China, India, and Russia pushing low-quality web sites.

someone can get by with paying $1 for installing ransomware, they may do it.

Or some ransomware company may take over an abandoned domain that' s linked from his page. Or some ransomware company may buy one of the sites. Or some ransomware company... Nevermind. Just don't build anything ever anywhere, because of edge cases.

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