Inspired by the "Ask HN: Share your personal site" last week, I finally came around and built a thing I wanted for a long time: a simple website to randomly explore all the awesome personal blogs without having to subscribe to them all.<p>So this is what I built over the weekend. You click a button and indieblog.page will redirect you to a random page from a personal page...<p>I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.
Now that explains it. I was just looking at the stats from my WordPress site and found traffic from a indieblog.page - I thought it was some shady marketing page and ignored it. Here 10 minutes later I am on HN and see this.<p>Great idea and probs for shipping!
Amazing, I was just thinking, how would I be able to find all these wonderful personal sites?<p>It's like Stumbleupon has been reborn!<p>And now you have gone and done it. Thank you.
This is cool! I read almost all my web content via RSS - I’d love an RSS feed of random posts from these sources, just to get a daily sample and see what’s worth following.
The moment the dev.to nonsense* folk discover you, it's gonna be useless.<p>*Newly dev.to RSS feed is 90% either pill promotion or zero value "my first post" notifications. Or posts in languages I don't speak and have no way to filter out.
Love this, reminds me quite a bit of stumbleupon.<p>In putting together my own RSS feed recently, and trying to figure out the best way to sync it with all my devices, I realized the simplest way was to just turn the aggregated links into a webpage and publish that publicly. There's no reason not to, and now others can use it as well!<p>It's at <a href="https://news.cryptic.io" rel="nofollow">https://news.cryptic.io</a>, if anyone wants to see the output. I recommend others do the same if you like.<p>The difficult part of using RSS is the actual curation part, so it's cool to see a trend (2 datapoints is a trend?) of folks doing that work up front and sharing it with others.
I will try this and see if I discover something nice, cool idea!<p>Not a long time ago I wanted to build something where users could share their favorite RSS feeds/blogs (like Julia Evans does [0]) so that others could, maybe, find something new and interesting. This is a similar concept.<p>[0]: <a href="https://jvns.ca/blogroll/" rel="nofollow">https://jvns.ca/blogroll/</a>
I found <a href="http://owensoft.net/v4/item/2924/" rel="nofollow">http://owensoft.net/v4/item/2924/</a> Which seems to be just a photo of the wendys menu. Quite amusing and probably the most “old web” site i’ve visited in years.
Oh man, it's StumbleUpon for the indieweb! I love it! I'll definitely using this in my spare time. My own site is part of the webring but I do love just being able to click a button and land on something surprising.<p>Thanks for sharing!
I love stuff like this. I just went to add my own site only to be told that somehow my feed was there already. I guess I am officially part of the IndieWeb!
I’d love something like HN for a curated list of blog posts, but it’s just technical or tech business (e.g. team dynamics, leadership, finance, product management, etc) blogs. No news or tweets or blurbs, just good high quality writings. Do I just need to start curating my own RSS feed?<p>“Indie” is cool but I just care if it’s good. But I guess this is just more for fun and child-like exploration, for the love of indie
The flaw here is that I’m not interested in the indie web per se. I’m interested in specific, interesting looking articles, some of which might happen to be indie web in nature…
You might also enjoy Read Something Interesting! Unrelated to HN but there are great posts there. <a href="https://readsomethinginteresting.com" rel="nofollow">https://readsomethinginteresting.com</a>
I have submitted my website's URL but didn't get any confirmation afterwards. Maybe it's just me and my browser, but it would be nice to have something like "ok, got that link! Thanks!" somewhere.
Read Something Interesting is very similar, but less focused on tech. <a href="https://readsomethinginteresting.com" rel="nofollow">https://readsomethinginteresting.com</a>
Anyone feel amazed at how many blogs are under a {user}.github.io domain? Github is not just about open source, it's a blogging platform too. People forget that.
>>Inspired by the "Ask HN: Share your personal site" last week,<p>I see you scraped the links on that thread [which was the smart thing to do]. Cool project. Good luck.
I've been dabbling in this general field as well, I do think there's new things to be made here. StumbleUpon was great, but I think it can be greater still.<p>I started with <<a href="https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random" rel="nofollow">https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random</a>> but then I made <<a href="https://explore.marginalia.nu/" rel="nofollow">https://explore.marginalia.nu/</a>> which I feel is the superior version.
Clicked several times on that button and this is what I've got:<p>- Performant A/B Testing with Cloudflare Workers<p>- 12 Useful Tools for DevOps<p>- Simplest alternative IDs with Rails<p>- How do I update my website using the iPad<p>- Certified Blockchain Professional - Module 03: Blockchain Mining<p>- Principles for the Metaverse<p>- Overloading & Creating New Operators In Swift 5<p>- Is Agility Related to Commitment? – Money Flows Part II<p>Is the "IndieWeb" basically just English-written personal blogs from HN folks now? I'd have hoped to find a bit more of a diverse landscape.