Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to BlogScroll – Minimalist open-source personal site/blog directory
An open directory of personal sites and blogs, maintained entirely on GitHub.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. BlogScroll – Minimalist open-source personal site/blog directory launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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 →
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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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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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Hi, my name is Bill. I’m a software engineer based in London. This is a blog about software development.
2021 · bilbof.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Blog discovery is a problem [0] due to the decentralized nature of online writing. Everyone writes on their own site or platform, and there’s no central place that brings everything together. Google results prioritize large media publications over blogs, so we need something else. Blog Surf is an attempt to organize all of the great online writing done by individuals. I launched this project last year as a directory of personal blogs [1], but have now rebuilt it from scratch into a full-text search engine for blog posts. You can search for blog posts, and filter by publish date and…
2022 · blogsurf.io · its alternatives →
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List of Public Blogs of Hacker News users. Contribute to outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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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2020 · guestpost.directory · its alternatives →
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git:logs▲176The definitive list of open source resources on Github
2016 · franksohakune.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 →
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Blogging with Github Issues. Contribute to mateogianolio/issuance development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GitPress▲120A blog writing tool based on GitHub, designed for developers
2019 · quaily.com · its alternatives →
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Blog generator based on github projects with mathjax support - vvksh/simple-blogger
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Extremely simple note-taking and blogging without any sign up required. Create your own online notebook in seconds.
2023 · notepin.co · its alternatives →
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2012 · throwww.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · rewrite.blog · its alternatives →
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Discover interesting blogs from around the Internet
2022 · blogdb.org · its alternatives →
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