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Awesomeblog.club is a self-hostable directory platform designed to organize and showcase small blogs and links. Users can host their own instance rather than relying on a centralized service, giving them full control… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Awesomeblog.club – self-hostable directory for small blogs and links launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Inspired by the "Ask HN: Share your personal site" last week, I finally came around and built a thing I wanted for a long time: a simple website to randomly explore all the awesome personal blogs without having to subscribe to them all. So this is what I built over the weekend. You click a button and indieblog.page will redirect you to a random page from a personal page... I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.

    2022 · indieblog.page · its alternatives →

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    Explore micro-startups made by indie makers or small teams

    2022 · awesomeindie.com · its alternatives →

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    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.

    Apr 2026 · text.blogosphere.app · its alternatives →

  4. 4LS

    Greetings, creator here! I've been working on a new blogging platform specifically for lists on and off for a few months now and I'm excited to officially announce its launch. After seeing https://charm.sh a few months ago, I've been enamored by the idea of SSH apps. I decided that a blogging platform focused on developers could be the perfect use case for an SSH app. Also, I love writing lists. I think restricting writing to a set of lists can really help improve clarity in thought. The goal of this blogging platform is to make it simple to use the tools you love to write and…

    2022 · lists.sh · its alternatives →

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    The StackOverflow for no-code makers

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Superblog▲535

    Blazing-fast alternative to WordPress and Medium blogs

    2022 · superblog.ai · its alternatives →

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    I saw this [0] pretty cool thread by user revskill, and wanted a quicker way to search through it, but also to keep them all in one place so I can read them at my leisure whenever I get time. Right now is like 60 lines of Ruby using Nokogiri, but I will certainly look into it further down the line and improve the list. There's a cronjob checking the thread every 12 hours but I will eventually shut that down and it will become static after that. There are some really awesome blogs in there. I really recommend going through the list, it made my day. [0] "Could you share your personal blog…

    2023 · dm.hn · its alternatives →

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    I made an open source directory for sharing projects Ever wondered how to show off that something you just built? Look no further! Awesome Launch is meant to be a list of communities and forums you can share your projects to get feedback or your first users. Anyone is free to contribute sites and resources. Hope you enjoy!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9WM

    Minimalist, federated, self-hosted blogging platform.

    2018 · writefreely.org · its alternatives →

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    A GNU Social-compatible microblogging server. Contribute to Gargron/mastodon development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I saw a comment here about how there are so many indexes of indie sites, blogs, etc but there wasn't an index of all the indexes. So I built it. It doesn't require a log in, just go browse! I've curated about 30 or so, but there is a submission form if there are ones I am missing. Also happy to take UI improvements because I am not great in that area!

    May 2026 · theindex.fyi · its alternatives →

  12. 12RH

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/ Old Reddit Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/ Hi HN, Inspired by this post earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23237559, I thought we could make blog discovery easier by having a place to find interesting, unusual, niche, or really any kind of non-marketing blogs that are posted by the people that write them. There are a ton of interesting blogs on the web, probably more than there were when the web was new, but even though there's more they're a smaller…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Discover 900+ people who have free video call options

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Launch a blog on your domain in minutes & free

    2025 · blogbuster.so · its alternatives →

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    Social media scheduling + social inbox + Hey.bio

    2023 · its alternatives →

  16. 16AS
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    Real networking in a virtual world

    2020 · its alternatives →

  18. 18AA

    2019 · awesomeweb.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19BH

    Like others on here, I was inspired by the "personal blogs" post :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 In proper HN fashion, the site is open-source and requires no JS! There's instructions on how to add/edit a blog on the Github README. [1] https://github.com/surprisetalk/blogs.hn Note that your blog might appear in blogs.json, but not on the site! Right now I'm using the following code to filter out blogs. Your blog might appear if you add more metadata: if ( 3 > 0 + !!blog.title + (blog.desc.length > 40) + !!blog.about + !!blog.now +…

    2023 · blogs.hn · its alternatives →

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    aggregator for pixelfed fediverse

    2020 · pixelfed.club · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, maker here. It was a serious 4-6 months of effort to build this. I have never poured as much love, attention and detail into a project before. So I really appreciate you having a looksie! The homepage has a fresh list of articles every hour and is open to all. Still, I recommend signing up so you can add stuff to your reading list and follow blogs. My initial plan was to monetize this with subtle ads, but that didn't work out as the traffic to the site isn't nearly enough for that. That said, I have a fair bit invested in this and I need your help figuring out a way to make this…

    2023 · boredreading.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, We are super excited to launch our second SaaS product, Hyvor Blogs. We (a small team of 3) have been working on this for about a year. After a bunch of testing, feedback, and iterations, here we are at the launch. We are trying to build a blogging platform that has all the features you need to run a blog without having to depend on plugins (themes, SEO, multi-language support, tags, team management, etc.). Most importantly, it’s just a blogging platform - not a site builder - not a membership platform. Overall, it’s been a great learning experience working on Hyvor Blogs. We’d love…

    2023 · blogs.hyvor.com · its alternatives →

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    Hand-picked, informative and categorized Twitter threads.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    The easy way to host your website or blog

    2021 · 1mb.co · its alternatives →

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