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The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites

92 points by freshman_dev ago | 15 comments

susam |next [-]

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/

riffraff |root |parent |next [-]

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

freshman_dev |root |parent |previous [-]

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

culi |next |previous [-]

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/

cosmicgadget |root |parent |next [-]

I don't think there is anything wrong with overlapping other projects, particularly when it's about surfacing the personal web.

marginalia_nu |root |parent [-]

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 |root |parent |previous [-]

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

not a crawl-based index

lucb1e |next |previous [-]

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 |root |parent [-]

right now there are no rules, and im hoping i dont need to make any. only requirement to submit is email address validation

aavci |next |previous [-]

How do you populate this index?

freshman_dev |root |parent [-]

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

cosmicgadget |next |previous [-]

> Main Street Wealth helps to sell and buy Home Services businesses.

I like the site though.

harmonyinfotech |next |previous [-]

Looks nice. Will be adding crawls.in (Domains homepage screenshots)

MORPHOICES |next |previous [-]

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chainmail_gl |next |previous [-]

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nsjskdkdkdk |previous [-]

tranners with delusions of grandeur amazinf

paulpauper |root |parent [-]

the AI bots are not even trying now lol