alt.hn

4/4/2026 at 2:18:06 PM

The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites

 https://iii.social

by freshman_dev

4/4/2026 at 9:25:30 PM

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/

by susam

4/5/2026 at 1:49:56 AM

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!

by OisinMoran

4/5/2026 at 1:08:19 AM

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.

by exiguus

4/5/2026 at 7:51:14 AM

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.)

by SyneRyder

4/4/2026 at 9:41:16 PM

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

by freshman_dev

4/5/2026 at 4:27:01 AM

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

by peterspath

4/5/2026 at 7:15:31 AM

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

by ramkarthikk

4/5/2026 at 11:57:33 AM

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

by nidnogg

4/5/2026 at 7:27:16 AM

We need to figure out how to monetize this trend.

by direwolf20

4/4/2026 at 4:59:22 PM

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/

by culi

4/4/2026 at 7:59:05 PM

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

by cosmicgadget

4/4/2026 at 8:50:47 PM

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.

by marginalia_nu

4/4/2026 at 7:17:37 PM

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

not a crawl-based index

by freshman_dev

4/5/2026 at 1:24:27 PM

I run a small ASCII art database (aahub.org) that's been going since 2017. Projects like this matter because the indie web's biggest problem isn't discovery — it's loneliness. You build something for years, and sometimes it feels like no one else is out there doing the same thing.

by scrpgil

4/5/2026 at 8:47:32 AM

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

by rednafi

4/4/2026 at 11:05:58 PM

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

by lucb1e

4/4/2026 at 11:11:39 PM

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

by freshman_dev

4/4/2026 at 7:23:50 PM

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

I like the site though.

by cosmicgadget

4/5/2026 at 11:26:35 AM

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 ?

by there_is_try

4/4/2026 at 7:14:13 PM

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

by harmonyinfotech

4/5/2026 at 7:13:19 AM

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

by jl6

4/5/2026 at 11:00:17 AM

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

by freshman_dev

4/4/2026 at 10:37:24 PM

How do you populate this index?

by aavci

4/4/2026 at 11:02:10 PM

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

by freshman_dev

4/5/2026 at 2:26:02 AM

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

by zx8080

4/5/2026 at 12:29:45 AM

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

by Cider9986

4/5/2026 at 1:46:11 AM

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

by freshman_dev

4/5/2026 at 12:14:38 PM

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by edinetdb

4/4/2026 at 4:38:57 PM

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4/5/2026 at 6:57:13 AM

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4/5/2026 at 9:26:41 AM

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by strado

4/4/2026 at 7:57:15 PM

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by nsjskdkdkdk

4/4/2026 at 8:14:21 PM

the AI bots are not even trying now lol

by paulpauper

4/4/2026 at 4:11:51 PM

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