scolvin

Man pages in the terminal are pretty annoying as you can't (easily) search them.

By "Google" I presume you mean online indexes of man pages E.g. This site.

The other man pages sites are ugly, old and incomplete, despite that done of them rank pretty high on Alexa. I built this site to end up smarter, more modern, easier to use and more complete. Still a work in progress atm.

Well yes, a bit of that. :-)

I'm kind of relying on Google to list it organically as man pages are something people search for a lot.

Helpmanual.io is my first attempt at passive income. Launched 6 weeks ago and traffic is building nicely. There's still a fair bit to do but the delight of sites like this is you can make improvements when you want. Shame that ad income is less than it used to be but we'll see how it gets on.

https://helpmanual.io

The groff format which is the basis for man pages is pretty unpleasant compared to it's modern equivalents, I suspect that's half the problem.

Thanks. It's pretty nasty to generate. Lots of commands do horrible thinks when run with "--help" or "-h".

Running it for ~8000 commands cause about 100 "something went wrong system messages", a few hundred random file to be generated, the desktop manager to crash completely a few times and the speakers on my desktop to start buzzing occasionally.