Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

Posted by ramkarthikk 6 days ago

Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs(text.blogosphere.app)

With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories.

There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/

If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.

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kangraemin 6 days ago|

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efilife 6 days ago||

Don't engage. This is a bot.

InsideOutSanta 6 days ago||

I wonder how to deal with the growing number of bots on HN. Right now, they are easy to spot, but they're getting better (and maybe I just think I can spot them because of the obvious examples).

Maybe a "this is a bot" button, but no doubt that would be abused.

cosmicgadget 6 days ago||

Should have to pass a turing test before each comment.

ramkarthikk 6 days ago||

Its chronological - most recently published first (no algorithm or voting).

ronb1964 6 days ago|

Funny timing — I tried to submit my own Show HN today for a small Linux app I've been building and got blocked because my account is too new. Spent the afternoon reading through HN threads to build up some karma instead. Feels like the indie software equivalent of the same problem this project is trying to solve — it's getting harder for small, genuine projects to find an audience without gaming some system first. Appreciate what you've built here!

yunnpp 5 days ago|

HN submissions are reviewed/banned after the fact as far as I know. It is reasonable to put a minimum karma threshold before one is allowed to submit. Conversely, this site shared here relies on manual reviews before something goes live, which won't scale at all. There's no system to "game" here.