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Curated Directories

Human-maintained lists of blogs and personal sites. Good for submitting your own site or browsing by topic.

  • Aggregates 1,000+ independent and personal blogs

  • Home for everyone's blogrolls and post rolls

  • Hand-curated directory of indie blogs

  • Open directory of personal sites maintained on GitHub

  • Personal sites of Hacker News users

  • Searchable human-curated indie web directory

  • Directory of blogs hosted on Mataroa

  • Small personal web feed aggregator

  • Directory of personal sites submitted by their owners

  • Flat list of personal sites

  • Directory of links to help navigate the web

  • Human-curated list of 1,000+ personal and independent blogs

  • Blog directory for Spanish-language writers

  • Yahoo-style taxonomy of 2,300+ blogs by topic

Feed-centric indexes that surface posts from indie blogs in real time. Good for following the small web like a stream.

  • RSS-based social discovery

  • Surfaces posts from feeds based on stated interests

  • Search engine for RSS feeds from blogs and podcasts

  • Random indie blog button; 4,900+ sites indexed

  • Public RSS aggregator with shuffle and random features

Search Engines

Actually crawl and index the small web. Good for finding specific content or authors.

  • Discovers personal blogs, indie YouTube channels, and webcomics

  • Search engine for content-rich, non-commercial, lightweight sites

  • Search posts from 3,400+ independent sites

  • Search engine for older-style pages reminiscent of the early web

  • Blog-focused search engine

Random Discovery

Send you somewhere unexpected. Good for when you want to find something new without knowing what you're looking for.

  • A different IndieWeb blog featured every day, with RSS feed

  • Surfaces great writing from around the web

  • Get lost on the web — random site discovery

Constraint-Based Clubs

Indexes defined by a technical or creative constraint (page weight, no JS, dark theme, etc.). Good for finding deliberately minimal sites.

  • Sites under 250 kilobytes

  • Sites under 512 kilobytes

  • Sites using dark themes by default

IndieWeb Infrastructure

Webrings, /now pages, webmention networks, and other connective tissue of the IndieWeb. Good for plugging into the broader community.

  • The IndieWeb wiki's index of personal sites

  • Webring of IndieWeb community members

  • Directory of people with /now pages, by Derek Sivers

  • Directory of personal/IndieWeb sites via omg.lol

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