▲The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites(iii.social)
93 points by freshman_dev 10 hours ago | 10 comments
▲susam 3 hours 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/

▲riffraff 2 hours ago
I'm quite fond of https://ooh.directory/
▲freshman_dev 2 hours 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
▲culi 7 hours 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 4 hours ago
I don't think there is anything wrong with overlapping other projects, particularly when it's about surfacing the personal web.
▲marginalia_nu 3 hours 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 5 hours ago
III is basically Gossips Web but searchable. users submit sites with descriptions used for semantic search

not a crawl-based index

▲lucb1e 1 hour 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 1 hour ago
right now there are no rules, and im hoping i dont need to make any. only requirement to submit is email address validation
▲Cider9986 8 minutes ago
Ah yes, the indie internet index, which does not load without javascript and has no source code linked.
▲aavci 2 hours ago
How do you populate this index?
▲freshman_dev 1 hour ago
entirely user submissions. think https://gossipsweb.net but with semantic search on user descriptions. fairly low key
▲cosmicgadget 5 hours ago
> Main Street Wealth helps to sell and buy Home Services businesses.

I like the site though.

▲harmonyinfotech 5 hours ago
Looks nice. Will be adding crawls.in (Domains homepage screenshots)
▲MORPHOICES 7 hours ago
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▲chainmail_gl 8 hours ago
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▲nsjskdkdkdk 4 hours ago
tranners with delusions of grandeur amazinf
▲paulpauper 4 hours ago
the AI bots are not even trying now lol