Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Discover and link the indieweb with a simple text query
I have a personal blog and homebrew static site generator. The features of this SSG have slowly grown over fifteen years of development and recently I added the standard "Related Posts" widget that appears at the footer of each page. As I was writing the code to find similar posts from my site, it struck me that it'd be nice to have a Related Posts section for other people's content. Some of the walled blogging services do this but I'd never seen it for the open web. Having external links on my posts would give my reader(s?) topical information from voices other than my own. And those…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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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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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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I've open-sourced the script I use to find related blog posts (and to describe why they're similar). Works on any set of markdown articles, so should fit into any SSG workflow. Uses embeddings to calculate the similarities, and GPT4 to add descriptive text.
2023 · tomhazledine.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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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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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, 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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Browser extension to help you discover independent wikis
2024 · getindie.wiki · its alternatives →
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Partially inspired by recent discussions on HN and other places. I've made a single-focus site to introduce your friends/colleagues/neighbours/family to RSS and web feeds. https://www.youneedfeeds.com/ The site is meant to give the elevator pitch for feeds, show a newbie what feeds are and how to use them, set them up with a reader, and give them some nice starter content if they want it. So much tastemaking and newsmaking power is concentrated in the hands of Facebook/Reddit/Twitter, but I'm convinced it's because much of the general populace doesn't…
2018 · its alternatives →
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IndiesRead.it▲145Collaborative directory of hand-picked books for indies
2024 · indiesread.it · its alternatives →
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Hype Link▲111List links to social, streaming platforms, and more.
2018 · hypel.ink · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! For a while I’ve been trying (unsuccessfully) to find a community for tech bloggers to get together and share what they’re working on, so here’s my attempt at making my own. It’s a completely free website and designed to be super straightforward to use. Functionality wise it’s pretty minimalist right now, with just the ability to register accounts, post drafts, and comment on other user’s posts. Support for more features like tagging post topics, user profiles and more are coming soon! Thanks for checking it out, and I’d love to hear any thoughts from the community. P.S. if you don’t…
2024 · review.caleb.software · its alternatives →
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I've been working on creating threaded blog posts using RSS feeds. Something similar to Twitter but kind of worse and better in its own way. I had an idea that if users are allowed to embed the threads to their posts, it acts like a simple comment section. Try it out, no accounts required.
2024 · blog.bhread.com · its alternatives →
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Connecting guest bloggers with willing blogs via newsletter
2014 · its alternatives →
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I've built a site for discovering personal blogs. You can search by an author's name, details from their /about page, or their specializations. Each blog includes links to and from other blogs, helping you explore related content. You’ll also find direct links to RSS feeds for easy following. Would love feedback on how to improve it!
2025 · weblogs.ai · its alternatives →
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Somebody said "Launch early, launch often", so I guess it's about time. WhatMyFriendsRead.com -- a social recommendation service for interesting links and content. Main idea: What is interesting for you is what your friends find interesting. I made a functional prototype hacked together in php+mysql with ugly html+css. But it works which is why I guess now would be a "launch early" moment. Or atleast show to a bunch of people for feedback :-) On the site your main source of links is from people you add as your friends or people you subscribe to. People you subscribe to provide you with links…
2011 · its alternatives →
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Hey, guys and girls :) Please notice, that my intention is not to advertise my project here, but to ask for your advice. Long story short: we've noticed that it's very hard to "sum-up" any idea on one page and share it without using a blogging platform. Let's say you want to collect and present your point of view on "IA reaserch". You can write a blogpost or use social media to share your opinion (that would reach limited amount of people though). We really missed a tool that allows you to embed a lot of different resources on one page and than to share it with one link. This way you can…
2013 · its alternatives →
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Stumble upon great links shared by curious readers. Discover worthwhile stories, explore unexpected corners of the web, and find something new. Join free.
2013 · postagon.com · its alternatives →
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