The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites

The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites(iii.social)

189 points by freshman_dev 44 days ago | 32 comments

susam 43 days ago |

Great 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://blogroll.org/

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)

https://wiby.me/

OisinMoran 43 days ago | |

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!

fafre 43 days ago | |

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

riffraff 43 days ago | |

I'm quite fond of https://ooh.directory/

exiguus 43 days ago | |

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.

SyneRyder 43 days ago | | |

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.)

freshman_dev 43 days ago | |

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

peterspath 43 days ago | |

Slashpages often have a directory where you can discover new indie websites. Also fun to add those slashpages to your own website.

https://slashpages.net

OuterVale 43 days ago | |

There is also https://personalsit.es which I help maintain.

ramkarthikk 43 days ago | |

Thank you for sharing text.blogosphere. This is a cool list, and I love the wander page you've built.

nidnogg 43 days ago | |

I'm baffled that I only knew wiby.me from this list. Time to dive in!

direwolf20 43 days ago | |

We need to figure out how to monetize this trend.

peterspath 43 days ago | |

also https://powrss.com

culi 44 days ago |

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

https://gossipsweb.net/

IndieWeb also has a massive "web ring" that has a similar aim

https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/

cosmicgadget 43 days ago | |

I don't think there is anything wrong with overlapping other projects, particularly when it's about surfacing the personal web.

marginalia_nu 43 days ago | | |

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.

freshman_dev 44 days ago | |

III is basically Gossips Web but searchable. users submit sites with descriptions used for semantic search

not a crawl-based index

rednafi 43 days ago |

It's super satisfying to search for my own blog on an indie aggregator and finding it there already.

lucb1e 43 days ago |

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

freshman_dev 43 days ago | |

right now there are no rules, and im hoping i dont need to make any. only requirement to submit is email address validation

cosmicgadget 44 days ago |

> Main Street Wealth helps to sell and buy Home Services businesses.

I like the site though.

harmonyinfotech 44 days ago |

Looks nice. Will be adding crawls.in (Domains homepage screenshots)

there_is_try 43 days ago |

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 ?

jl6 43 days ago |

Is this being attacked by people pushing their commercial sites into it, or are those ads?

freshman_dev 43 days ago | |

not ads. submissions are open and good faith. im trying not to police other than rating exceedingly promotional commercial things 1 star

aavci 43 days ago |

How do you populate this index?

freshman_dev 43 days ago | |

entirely user submissions. think https://gossipsweb.net but with semantic search on user descriptions. fairly low key

mskogly 40 days ago |

I use Newsify for rss. Any neat trick to add these as feeds?

zx8080 43 days ago |

Is it an index of nice sites for someone's LLM training set?

Cider9986 43 days ago |

Ah yes, the indie internet index, which does not load without javascript and has no source code linked.

freshman_dev 43 days ago | |

i think you were looking for the Old & Obsolete Online Ossuary - indie sites are allowed to use react and be closed source