A directory of handmade webpages

Hey, it&#x27;s Elliott (creator of Gossip&#x27;s Web, Special Fish <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;special.fish" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;special.fish</a>, and other projects (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elliott.computer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elliott.computer</a>). Thanks for checking out Gossips. There&#x27;s a renewed interest in building websites by hand using basic but powerful tools (HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;a little JavaScript). Gossip&#x27;s is a directory of some of these sites and lets you submit your own.<p>The submission criteria is pretty straight forward (no links to social media or website builders). Also, please don&#x27;t submit your latest startup : ) . Personal websites, web experiments, and small community sites are all very welcome. The $1 submission fee goes toward running&#x2F;maintaining the directory (I make about $3-5&#x2F;month on submissions so it&#x27;s not about the money). Happy to answer any questions the HN community might have and have a nice weekend!

I just finished a site especially for writing handmade pages: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codasite.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codasite.app</a>. Users get a Monaco code editor (think VS Code, but in the browser) and they write one HTML, one CSS, and one JS file. Hit &quot;deploy&quot;, and you get a website.<p>It&#x27;s targeted towards people learning to code, but maybe the handmade webpage crowd would like it, too. I&#x27;d love to get some traffic and feedback.<p>I wasn&#x27;t expecting to launch today so it&#x27;s still on a $5&#x2F;month server. God speed, little guy.

Aren’t all webpages handmade to one extent or another? Or are these webpages that don’t use frameworks like React and Angular?

Cool collection, but it seems like it&#x27;s just modern examples. Surprised scaruffi.com is not in this directory

What definition of handmade does this use?

How do we create a search engine which looks into hand crafted sites only? Back to the roots!

At least one site is created using Roam Research. Does this really qualify as handmade?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rodrigofranco.com&#x2F;How_is_this_website_made.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rodrigofranco.com&#x2F;How_is_this_website_made.html</a>

There are just so many websites on this page, all of which have their own art style and their own experiments. Honestly makes me feel very small on the internet but also happy that there are so many people who do this kinda stuff.

&gt; <i>handmade webpages</i><p>Here is one of such: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leocad.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leocad.org</a><p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leozide&#x2F;leocad&#x2F;tree&#x2F;gh-pages" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leozide&#x2F;leocad&#x2F;tree&#x2F;gh-pages</a>

Pity it costs money to submit sites，but I&#x27;m glad projects like this exist

Is it possible to pay with a different method than credit card?

I think <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neocities.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neocities.org</a> has some of these same vibes, except neocities also has hosting.

Cool idea and I submitted my site. You&#x27;ve got a minor bug - on a tag page, the submit link goes to &#x2F;tags&#x2F;submit.

why would it cost $1 to submit?

I really like a.slow.cab

Why do they all have to be so damn ugly?

&gt;It costs $1 to submit.<p>No thanks. I&#x27;ll just keep my handmade websites to myself and let people find them by surfing.