Show HN: I manually organized 1000 profiles (am I a dinosaur?)
Over the last few months I've been doing something that feels completely irrational in 2026.
While everyone is building AI tools and automating everything, I started manually curating people from the internet who talk about topics that can help you improve different areas of life.
Not ranking them. Not claiming they are “the best”. Just organizing who talks about what.
The Process: 1,150+ sources (authors, founders, scientists, creators and regular people). 100% manual categorization. No AI scrapers. Organized by categories, subcategories and intent-based tags (all done by hand). Built entirely on spreadsheets before moving to this prototype. Right now it's about 1000+ sources organized around topics like health, skills, business, mindset, and others. I originally started doing this for myself because:
- I don't like that what I see online depends on an algorithm
- I know there's valuable content online, but finding it consistently is hard
- While organizing this, I kept discovering things I didn't know existed but were exactly what I needed
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I'm genuinely curious:
In an AI-saturated internet, does the idea of human-curated discovery still make sense to you?
Does the 'Map' structure feel like a viable alternative to the way we consume information today?
Happy to answer anything and open to brutally honest feedback. Happy to answer questions about the categorization system, tagging structure, or the process of curating the profiles.