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Posted by susam 1/14/2026

Ask HN: Share your personal website

Hello HN! I am putting together a community-maintained directory of personal websites at https://hnpwd.github.io/. More details about the project can be found in the README at https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd#readme.

As you can see, the directory currently has only a handful of entries. I need your help to grow it. If you have a personal website, I would be glad if you shared it here. If your website is hosted on a web space where you have full control over its design and content, and if it has been well received in past HN discussions, I might add it to the directory. Just drop a link in the comments. Please let me know if you do not want your website to be included in the directory.

Also, I intend this to be a community maintained resource, so if you would like to join the GitHub project as a maintainer, please let me know either here or via the IRC link in the README.

By the way, see also 'Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 - July 2023 - (1014 points, 1940 comments). In this post, the scope is not restricted to blogs though. Any personal website is welcome, whether it is a blog, digital garden, personal wiki or something else entirely.

UPDATE: It is going to take a while to go through all the submissions and add them. If you'd like to help with the process, please send a PR directly to this project: https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd.

950 points | 2389 comments
DustinBrett 1/15/2026|
https://dustinbrett.com - Spent years working on my own personal website which is also a desktop environment in the browser. Source @ https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
akst 1/15/2026||
I love this

I made something like with a similar aesthetic a few years ago but themed after win95 (which seems to be hardly unique these days). But it had a secret gimmick where aspects of it were implemented with in terms of itself (mostly, file icons could be edited within app and you could see them update on the desktop).

I had grand plans for it but they never eventuated.

https://resume.akst.io/

guax 1/15/2026|||
It felt like using someone elses computer and exploring their bedroom.
rawxtl 1/15/2026|||
I tried opening your site inside of your site and then one more inside that and it stoped. total recursions achieved 1, but man was it cool. Loved it
unsungNovelty 1/15/2026||
I opened like 3-4 times one inside the other and it worked for me though.
pcchristie 1/16/2026||
I got to 3, then opened one of his YouTube videos in the "bottom" browser. Nothing seemed to happen then the audio started playing and everything slowed to a crawl. After closing the tab the audio kept playing and my entire PC became unusable until I rebooted. I'm not even mad, I'm impressed!
p4bl0 1/16/2026||
I got to seven on my laptop using Firefox, but then it was too painfully slow to try to open another one. It ran smoothly up to the fifth level tho!

https://i.imgur.com/YJ4hsCK.png

someguyiguess 1/15/2026|||
I love your site!

I had the same concept for mine but it is Mac OS X Tiger (iOS on mobile breakpoints).

https://nicksmith.software

yesokayawesome 1/20/2026||
damn, i pressed cmd+w and accidentally shut down your mac sorry
redbell 1/16/2026|||
I'm a big fan of this project! I've been following it for years now. It was submitted a couple of times to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779753

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830132

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088777

drussilla7 1/16/2026|||
really nice project, the UI in the browser feels way more responsive than my Win 11 nowadays....
abronan 1/15/2026|||
Oh no.. it has 3D Pinball Space Cadet and Doom, here goes my night :)

Amazing work on this website! It encourages exploration and navigating the folders to see all the content.

kypro 1/16/2026|||
Christ. Nice work man.

I clicked the link and assumed that you must have been using some JS OS UI library because of how nice it was.

This is impressive!

nickandbro 1/15/2026|||
Pretty cool, like your carpe diem post
coda_ 1/15/2026|||
Amazing! Thanks for sharing this. Lots of nostalgia in there.
sniner 1/15/2026|||
This is incredible !
anon_anon12 1/16/2026|||
Coool
vjay15 1/16/2026|||
THAT WAS SO COOL, VERY EPIC
diggyhole 1/15/2026|||
This is rad.
botanrice 1/16/2026|||
this is super impressive! agreed with other commenter, this was a smoother experience than a real windows os LMAO. thanks for sharing <3
kls0e 1/15/2026|||
excellent!
yia648 1/15/2026|||
cool
khana 1/17/2026||
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simonsarris 1/14/2026||
https://simonsarris.com - My site

https://map.simonsarris.com - My newsletter site

https://garden.simonsarris.com - My garden designer site. Currently making this so anyone can use it! Public alpha at the end of the month I hope.

https://meetinghouse.cc - My site for helping twitter users find each other

https://carefulwords.com - My very fast thesaurus site

georgebcrawford 1/14/2026||
I'm an English teacher - I'll be sharing carefulwords with my students and faculty. Thank you, it's bloody great.
AndrewHart 1/15/2026||
It's great, astounding, divine, amazing, splendiferous.
usmanity 1/14/2026|||
wow! I love how the background/header generates as the page loads and you can click to add things on it. Overall, the design if amazing!
techInacho 1/15/2026|||
Awesome garden designer site! Add a similar idea, found this one https://my-garden.gardena.com but not really what I was looking for. Are you accepting contributions to the source code?
DrinkerOfBeers 1/15/2026|||
Ooh I like the interactive header
metabagel 1/15/2026|||
> https://meetinghouse.cc - My site for helping twitter users find each other

This would be nice for Bluesky. I deleted my account on Twitter after it turned into a hellscape.

nicbou 1/15/2026|||
I have been a fan of your site for a while. I loved all of your posts and brought you up in conversation sometimes. I also use your list of online galleries all the time. Keep up the good work.
jakubmazanec 1/17/2026|||
> https://simonsarris.com - My site

Too small page margins.

rene-veerman 1/18/2026||
https://nicer.app constantly undergoing improvements :-)
lostlogin 1/14/2026|||
Love your garden! How big is your section? Or is this hypothetical?

Do you keep geese?

I noticed that tree sizes go to 200 if you put nonsense on the field (text emoticon etc).

simonsarris 1/14/2026||
I have about 7 acres. I kept geese once but they were killed when they ran off with a local 5K that ran by my house and they followed. They were never found.

I have kept ducks (meat) and chickens (eggs) at various times, but I ate all the ducks and I gave away the chickens just last month. Unfortunately free ranging chickens have been very destructive to my gardening, and I am trying to make the 2nd largest rose garden in NH, so that goal has priority.

lostlogin 1/15/2026||
Wow.

Also, what’s a 5k?

matkv 1/15/2026||
I'm guessing they mean a 5 kilometer running race, those are usually called 5k.
canadiantim 1/15/2026|||
The garden website if beautifully done actually. I quite like how imperfect and non-straight the lines are eg of the house
DaveZale 1/15/2026|||
that garden site is something I'll return to. I have a "baby" site at xeriscape.neocities.org and this kind of feature would be muy excellente to include

thanks

akst 1/15/2026|||
Did you hand draw those sketches on your personal site?
therealbilliam 1/14/2026|||
how did you make those animations on your main site?
simonsarris 1/14/2026||
I did it all by hand in HTML canvas. I have spent a long time making such things for years. My day job is making a canvas-based Diagramming library so I have some practice.

If you click on it the scene creates more objects by the way. And if you right-click and drag you can move them around.

vtr1130 1/22/2026||
And you charge 12$ for pinning your location on meetinghouse.cc, and ppl pay for that! Dude, you're a genius.
teotimepacreau 1/28/2026||
https://www.teotimepacreau.fr - mostly writing about web dev, design, consultancy work for managing informatic projects, using open data to serve your own needs My feed : https://www.teotimepacreau.fr/feed/feed.xml Also the blogroll containing all the indie blogs I regularly read : https://www.teotimepacreau.fr/colophon
DrinkerOfBeers 1/15/2026||
https://laurikarjalainen.com/

It's a simple "business card" page built with Angular and 98.css.

Been thinking of upgrading to plain vanilla js, xp.css and maybe some static site generation or CMS thingy for blog posts

darekkay 1/15/2026||
That's cool! A small idea: if I can resize the window (nice!), I'd expect the maximize button to work, too.
DrinkerOfBeers 1/15/2026||
Thanks! It's on the todo list
hfduisahfdiasp 1/15/2026|||
I love the LinkedIn icon!
Crowz4k 1/15/2026|||
There’s a slight page jump that I find distracting, but I really like the concept and the overall look.
DrinkerOfBeers 1/15/2026||
Thanks for the feedback! You mean the page jump that's happening on page load right?
akst 1/15/2026|||
Love the dithering
victords 1/15/2026|||
Loved the idea!
cookiengineer 1/15/2026|||
lol, that beer drinking was unexpected.

I kinda love the intentional dithering on the photos though.

morganf 1/14/2026||
Today is my 50th birthday, actually! And my website is basically a timeline of interesting projects I've been doing since I was a kid. I often think it would be cool if everyone had some public timeline of their life in a shareable way. Here's mine: https://westegg.com
wonger_ 1/15/2026||
Neat. My favorite life timeline is probably Simon's at colly.com.
duck 1/15/2026|||
Happy 50th birthday!
daniel_iversen 1/15/2026||
Happy birthday!
medv 1/15/2026||
Hey! Here is my personal website! Please, check it out!

http://localhost:8080/

talineo 1/15/2026||
If like me, you need to complain that medv deep copied your website, please contact abuse@localhost.
akst 1/15/2026|||
Hmm i think you’re working on something similar to me, take a look http://localhost:8080/
someguyiguess 1/15/2026||
Woah it looks just like my website!
coffeecoders 1/14/2026||
I am a big fan of https://blogs.hn/ (I visit it daily), your directory looks similar.

You should automate this, maybe drive all of these content from a json file and accept PRs.

---

My blog: https://nabraj.com/

Most popular: Why is boarding a plane still a mess? (https://nabraj.com/blog/boarding-methods)

surprisetalk 1/14/2026||
Author of https://blogs.hn here :) I will crawl these comments and add them soon!
neekp 1/16/2026||
I think you might also like https://weblogs.ai.
addy_osmani 1/14/2026||
https://addyosmani.com

I'm not a great designer, but I've tried to capture the who, what and jump off points for reading my writing as well as I could. Always impressed by the creativity and soul many other folks seem able to put into their personal homepages!

aalam 1/17/2026||
I was lagging behind in AI until a colleague shared your guide about Context Management in LLMs. Thank you for that!
callumprentice 1/14/2026|||
I've long admired your work online both for its writing quality and incredible insight.

Thank you for sharing all these years.

addy_osmani 1/15/2026||
Thank you for the kind words and for reading my work over the years!

I'll be happy if any of it was helpful :)

j-krieger 1/14/2026|||
I've seen your work for years now and I always wondered how you are so productive.
usmanity 1/14/2026||
I've seen a lot of your work around the internet!
wilkystyle 1/15/2026||
I got excited at the headline of this post because I love the idea of community maintained personal site directories. Was disappointed to get into the description and linked Git repository and learn that it's only for sites that have gotten some traction on hacker news before. Was hoping it would be a way to stumble upon potentially underrepresented content from folks in the hacker news community who don't normally get attention.

This is probably a "me" problem for assuming otherwise (you even have HN in your URL), but it's not what I expected from a post asking people to share their personal websites.

edit: judging by the number of personal website links posted here that do not meet that criteria, it appears I was not the only one with the wrong impression.

susam 1/15/2026||
> Was disappointed to get into the description and linked Git repository and learn that it's only for sites that have gotten some traction on hacker news before.

Yes, I was not entirely happy with the restrictive wording either. The original requirement was added mainly out of concern about spam submissions (blogspam, AI-generated content and similar). But the quality of submissions has been surprisingly good and I am genuinely delighted by the number of interesting websites I have came across in the last few hours.

So I have gone ahead and removed the overly restrictive criteria language.

> Was hoping it would be a way to stumble upon potentially underrepresented content from folks in the hacker news community who don't normally get attention.

Yes, that was exactly my intention as well. Thanks for raising this concern. It gave me the push to update the README and make the intent clearer.

wilkystyle 1/15/2026||
Your original reasoning makes a lot of sense, and I wasn't even thinking about that aspect. Thanks for clarifying!
baubino 1/15/2026|||
OP should change it to be what most of us thought it would be. In case not, I’m adding this to favorites so I can continue checking out all the sites later.
susam 1/15/2026||
Done: https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd.github.io/commit/e6a016f

I mentioned in a sibling thread that this requirement was originally added out of caution, mainly to discourage spam submissions. It no longer seems necessary, and I was not entirely happy with it either, so I have removed it now. Thanks for the discussion here, which prompted me to drop the restrictive requirement.

sen 1/15/2026|||
TheOldNet runs a decent WebRing that still gets new sites added to it pretty regularly, and is almost always just personal websites/blogs. I quite like it (and my site is on it)

https://webring.theoldnet.com

There's also geekring.net that is similar, and a few others that are still actively updated.

I still prefer WebRings for finding good personal sites, it has that old-web "exploration and discovery" type feeling that makes it actively satisfying to find new sites.

tslmy 1/15/2026|||
Suggestion:

Everyone think of a number between 0~9, put it in a bracket (so that it's search-friendly), and add it to their post, e.g. "[7] check out my example.com".

Readers of this thread are then encouraged to search for a random number between 0~9, search for it (e.g., "[5]") via browser, do a few "find next" (just to randomize), and then visit as many results as they enjoy.

splitbrain 1/15/2026|||
All kinds of personal blogs are welcome at https://indieblog.page no matter your fame on Hackernews.
thiagowfx 1/15/2026|||
Blog directories: https://perrotta.dev/2025/05/blog-directories/
lylo 1/15/2026|||
Check out https://ooh.directory or https://blogroll.org
throwaway150 1/17/2026||
The problem with https://ooh.directory/ is that nobody can tell what gets added and what doesn't. Submissions go through an opaque review process and a lot of good submissions don't make it. If you search for your favorite bloggers there, chances are that they're missing from there.
zahlman 1/15/2026|||
I mean, it makes sense to restrict outside submissions at least nominally, while being more lenient within the community, given that the project is community-focused.... but yes, I did feel a bit apprehensive when I looked at the repo after I'd already been added.
jasondigitized 1/17/2026||
Isn't that the point of this post? To hydrate the site with more links?
masswerk 1/15/2026|
https://masswerk.at/

The site covers mostly retro- and classic computing. (Strictly no AI generated content.) Here in convenient format:

  (
    :name "Norbert Landsteiner"
    :site "https://masswerk.at/"
    :blog "https://masswerk.at/nowgobang/"
    :feed "https://masswerk.at/nowgobang/feed.xml" //covers blog only
    :about "https://masswerk.at/info/"             //legal info
    :hnuid "masswerk"
    :bio "web developer and designer, site content is mostly retro- and classic computing."
  )
araes 1/16/2026||
Your Pet 2001 emulator's pretty cool, and seems much more capable and user friendly than a lot of the downloadable alternatives.

Actually a bit of an issue, its so capable, I actually have difficulty justifying a downloadable alternative, even though I'd prefer to have a local copy due to the untrustworthiness of web apps over time.

masswerk 1/18/2026||
Thank you! I can see that this may a bit of an issue. However, this being a simple webpage is what allows to quickly tinker with this and push a quick update, which is also how much of this has kept growing.
trms 1/15/2026||
What a coincidence to see this here - in these days I'm making my first NES emulator and I have your 6502 instruction set page permanently open.

Thank you so much for your work.

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