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Show HN: BluntBio – Simple wiki for fun facts

3 pointsby jbryu10 months ago
Hey HN,<p>For the past 8 months I&#x27;ve been working on BluntBio, a simple wiki platform that focuses on fun facts[0] rather than lengthy articles[1].<p>The project naively started out as &quot;Linktree with fun facts&quot; but evolved into something more interesting when collaborative pages and structured data began trickling in. This effectively pivoted the project from &quot;link-in-bio tool&quot; to &quot;weird wiki platform&quot; which I&#x27;m very happy about :P<p>Some differences between BluntBio and traditional wikis:<p>- Community contributions are done through votes instead of overriding edits (i.e. for each fun fact the highest voted answer gets shown)<p>- You can build a personal page[2] that&#x27;s only editable by you (I still think it&#x27;s fun to answer your own fun facts so I kept this from the original link-in-bio idea)<p>- Explore pages have simple bar charts that show popular fun fact answers[3]<p>- Way more emojis (probably too many)<p>There are also some limitations in place to help prevent abuse:<p>- New pages can only be created for a predefined set of topics<p>- When creating a page, users can only input a URL from a verified source. All page metadata is then automatically populated from this URL, eliminating the need for extra manual input<p>- All fun facts are only answerable with structured select inputs rather than unstructured text ones<p>- No user-uploaded images<p>I know these aren&#x27;t perfect solutions and might even be <i>too</i> limiting, but given my limited bandwidth as a solo dev, I&#x27;ve settled on this for now. In the meanwhile, I&#x27;ll continue adding topics to expand the possible pool of pages as I figure out better ways to handle user-generated content.<p>I&#x27;ve also set up a demo page where you can try things out without signing up[4].<p>Any feedback is appreciated. Be blunt! (heh) Thanks c:<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blunt.bio&#x2F;@hackernews" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blunt.bio&#x2F;@hackernews</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hacker_News" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hacker_News</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blunt.bio&#x2F;jbryu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blunt.bio&#x2F;jbryu</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blunt.bio&#x2F;explore&#x2F;topics&#x2F;data-structures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blunt.bio&#x2F;explore&#x2F;topics&#x2F;data-structures</a><p>[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blunt.bio&#x2F;demo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blunt.bio&#x2F;demo</a>

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