The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites
iii.socialGreat 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://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)
Oh delightful, thank you for this! I also maintain a somewhat similar meta-list on my site lynkmi: https://lynkmi.com/oisin/lynkmi%2520adjacent
Going to dig into these soon and will post a few!
I recently built a Small Web Discovery feature for the WebLibre Android browser that unifies multiple sources (currently only Wander and Kagi Small Web). The feature is still very alpha, in the upcoming weeks I will look into adding more sources. Documentation here: https://docs.weblibre.eu/weblibre/small-web.html and there are some screenshots in this Wander issue: https://codeberg.org/susam/wander/issues/11
I'm quite fond of https://ooh.directory/
Personally, I use https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/ to feed my search engine / crawler. It contains 30k + rss/atom feeds of indie web sites. Thx for sharing this and the other directories.
Oh cool, you have your own search engine & crawler? I don't suppose you've written / blogged about it anywhere?
(I have my own search engine too, but still haven't blogged about it. One day.)
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
Slashpages often have a directory where you can discover new indie websites. Also fun to add those slashpages to your own website.
There is also https://personalsit.es which I help maintain.
Thank you for sharing text.blogosphere. This is a cool list, and I love the wander page you've built.
I'm baffled that I only knew wiby.me from this list. Time to dive in!
We need to figure out how to monetize this trend.
also https://powrss.com
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
IndieWeb also has a massive "web ring" that has a similar aim
I don't think there is anything wrong with overlapping other projects, particularly when it's about surfacing the personal web.
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.
III is basically Gossips Web but searchable. users submit sites with descriptions used for semantic search
not a crawl-based index
I run a small ASCII art database (aahub.org) that's been going since 2017. Projects like this matter because the indie web's biggest problem isn't discovery — it's loneliness. You build something for years, and sometimes it feels like no one else is out there doing the same thing.
It's super satisfying to search for my own blog on an indie aggregator and finding it there already.
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
right now there are no rules, and im hoping i dont need to make any. only requirement to submit is email address validation
> Main Street Wealth helps to sell and buy Home Services businesses.
I like the site though.
Looks nice. Will be adding crawls.in (Domains homepage screenshots)
This reminds me of sacredmtn.com, I miss that site. Does anyone here know the creators of that site and what they might be doing now ?
Is this being attacked by people pushing their commercial sites into it, or are those ads?
not ads. submissions are open and good faith. im trying not to police other than rating exceedingly promotional commercial things 1 star
I use Newsify for rss. Any neat trick to add these as feeds?
How do you populate this index?
entirely user submissions. think https://gossipsweb.net but with semantic search on user descriptions. fairly low key
Is it an index of nice sites for someone's LLM training set?
Ah yes, the indie internet index, which does not load without javascript and has no source code linked.
i think you were looking for the Old & Obsolete Online Ossuary - indie sites are allowed to use react and be closed source