AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites
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…
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AboutIdeasNow is a searchable index of over 7,000 personal websites, allowing users to find collaborators and interesting projects. It specifically indexes three pages from each site: /about, /ideas, and /now, letting users search across these sections without visiting individual websites. The tool is designed for people looking to connect with others around shared interests and work opportunities, drawing inspiration from Derek Sivers' Now page movement and IndieWeb directories.
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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 from 3 specific pages, /about, /now and /ideas, to structure everything * Define /ideas pages as a space to articulate things you want to work on We hope this’ll be a cool place for people to find others to collaborate with - would love your feedback. If you’d like your site to appear at the top, add it via the form and add a last updated date of today (any format). It’s completely open source (MIT) and open to contributions [3]! Peter & Louis [0] gathered from: 1) https://nownownow.com and similar sites 2) checking all HN posts since 2020 with more than 100 upvotes [1] https://nownownow.com [2] https://personalsit.es [3] https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow
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