Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Indie Thinkers
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Indie Thinkers launched in 2021; 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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IndiesRead.it▲145Collaborative directory of hand-picked books for indies
2024 · indiesread.it · its alternatives →
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IndieLogs▲264Stand out as a solopreneur & build a personal brand
2024 · indielogs.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · indiepaper.me · 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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Hi HN! It’s hard to find interesting people to work with on your ideas. Our solution: index the /about, /ideas, /now pages of 1000s of personal websites. There are thousands of cool personal sites out there, with amazing ideas on them, but there’s nowhere to easily search through. So we built a simple site that indexes 7k+ personal sites [0]. We were inspired by Derek Sivers’ Now page movement [1] and other IndieWeb directories [2], but we figured that it would be more useful if we: * Let you search directly across personal sites without having to visit them * Take the content…
2024 · aboutideasnow.com · its alternatives →
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Thoughter▲312Try to match a thought with somebody over the Internet!
2019 · aytwit.com · its alternatives →
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Thoughts from publishing guru Jane Friedman
2016 · traffic.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
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Indie Letters▲393Not a marketing but "growth" marketing newsletter for makers
2020 · indieletters.com · its alternatives →
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Niopub▲87Explore posts from others or quickly publish your own ideas
2023 · niopub.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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2021 · indiefeeds.com · its alternatives →
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Awesome Indie▲275Explore micro-startups made by indie makers or small teams
2022 · awesomeindie.com · its alternatives →
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Thoughts▲91Share your thoughts with the world, anonymously
2022 · sharemythoughts.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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2022 · thinktype.app · its alternatives →
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Reedsy Discovery▲199Discover and showcase the best new indie books
2019 · reedsy.com · its alternatives →
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