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The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites

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189 pointsfreshman_dev32 comments

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://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/

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

I'm quite fond of https://ooh.directory/

There is also https://personalsit.es which I help maintain.

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.

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.)

Oh delightful, thank you for this! I also maintain a somewhat similar meta-list on my site lynkmi: https://lynkmi.com/oisin/lynkmi%2520adjacent

Going to dig into these soon and will post a few!

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

also https://powrss.com

Slashpages often have a directory where you can discover new indie websites. Also fun to add those slashpages to your own website.

https://slashpages.net

Thank you for sharing text.blogosphere. This is a cool list, and I love the wander page you've built.

We need to figure out how to monetize this trend.

I'm baffled that I only knew wiby.me from this list. Time to dive in!

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

https://gossipsweb.net/

IndieWeb also has a massive "web ring" that has a similar aim

https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/

III is basically Gossips Web but searchable. users submit sites with descriptions used for semantic search

not a crawl-based index

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.

It's super satisfying to search for my own blog on an indie aggregator and finding it there already.

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

> 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)

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 ?

Is this being attacked by people pushing their commercial sites into it, or are those ads?

not ads. submissions are open and good faith. im trying not to police other than rating exceedingly promotional commercial things 1 star

How do you populate this index?

entirely user submissions. think https://gossipsweb.net but with semantic search on user descriptions. fairly low key

I use Newsify for rss. Any neat trick to add these as feeds?

Is it an index of nice sites for someone's LLM training set?

Ah yes, the indie internet index, which does not load without javascript and has no source code linked.

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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