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Posted by ramkarthikk 5 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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randusername 5 days ago|
Great work, I haven't updated my public site in years while I waited for the LLM stuff to play out, but you've inspired me to put it back out there and submit.
AndrewStephens 5 days ago||
I love this (and submitted my blog) - people bemoan the death of the Old Web™ but in reality there is still heaps of great content being created.
ashwinne 5 days ago||
I would love a old-school search engine that pulls results purely from a well curated list of websites and blogs.
swyx 5 days ago|
https://kagi.com/smallweb/
holtwick 5 days ago||
Small web, try this one https://bubbles.town
viermalbe 5 days ago|
Bubbles is different, because the front page is created by real people voting. It also supports comments, blogs in EN and DE, as well as following blogs.
nextaccountic 5 days ago||
Question, is this strictly chronological, or is there anything at all to make this an "algorithmic feed" like HN, reddit, twitter, or facebook? (list is roughly in the order of less shitty to more shitty, but note that none of them are chronological, unlike, say, a RSS reader aggregating some set of blogs)
ramkarthikk 5 days ago|
This is strictly chronological. No voting, no algorithm.
highspeedbus 5 days ago||
That's great. I wish we could convince more people to use similar tools regularly, myself included.

It may not 'scale' as well as algorithmic feeds, but maybe that's what will save the Web. We need more sweat and passion, both in curation of content and in the effort to find it.

matheusmoreira 5 days ago||
> If you don't find your blog, please add them.

> RSS / Atom Feed URL *

I really need to implement an RSS/Atom feed in my static site generator, the lack of this feature is really starting to hurt. I can probably get Claude to help me with this.

dllu 5 days ago|
I vibe coded RSS feed for my static site generator a few months ago: https://github.com/dllu/dllup-rs/blob/main/src/main.rs#L850

and was pleasantly surprised to see my blog was already on this website!

meander_water 5 days ago||
Cool idea! I actually did something similar but with ~130k Substack publications (they're just RSS feeds) https://findsubstack.com
LostMyLogin 5 days ago|
Love this! New homepage for me. Do you have a buy me coffee button to help keep it live?
ramkarthikk 5 days ago||
Appreciate it :) I don't have one. This is hosted on Cloudflare as a static site and a cron that runs on a $5 VM (that also hosts other things). So it doesn't cost me much to keep it alive other than the domain cost. I built it this way intentionally so that I can keep this running forever.
glenstein 5 days ago||
Right! My concern with these tools is sometimes they are too good for this world and likely to live a few months.
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