You might be interested in https://hnblogs.substack.com/. You could use its RSS feed as an input source. I'm not sure exactly what the author's filtering process is--I think it's partly filtering out domains that are known to not be personal sites and then going over the remainder manually, or something--but I read it every day, and while I usually don't follow any of the links, every once in a while I find something golden that I never would've found otherwise.

If I inderstand correctly, you created an RSS feed agregator, were the criteria for selecting the feeds is that a) they appeared on HN and b) they are perosnal websitea, not corporate..

I think it's valuable... but where do you draw the line betweeb perosnal and corporate can get blurry..

Interesting idea! There are so many great posts that otherwise get lost in the noise.

What is your main motivation for building IndieFeeds?

To get more activity onto the site, have you thought about including HN upvote counts & comments?

Nice! How I can I add my feed? My website is my username, without the last "m" and dot com!

Not sure where I found it, but I have it coded like this:

scope :ranked, -> { select('posts.*, ((posts.upvotes_count + 1) / POWER(EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (NOW() - posts.published_at)), 1.8)) AS rank').order('rank DESC') }

I'd like it to be something on its own, and it's exactly like you said HN is only a method to jump start.