I love this. THANK YOU.
Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
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#183I love the idea of such frontpages. There should be one for small scale b2c apps as well to help discovery
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#184Very clean site, well done. I’ve built something similar, but it also has an algorithmic front page option as well based on the “standard” algorithm from Reddit/HN: https://engineered.at I also have it wired up to gpt nano for topic extraction and summary creation per post, if you register for an account (free) you can also follow sources and topics to fine tune things. I have a big list of features to continue addin…
Not sure if you want feedback on this, but mine is free. The lists are impenetrable for my eye, I think an key mistake is that you don't use an accent color for titles in lists (i.e. look at a google serp). That you don't directly link the content, felt like an offense, followed by a slap in the face looking at an AI generated summary. The layout feels too reddit and too industrialized and the way you plan to progres…
I’ll ignore the tone here and solely reply to the feedback (go take a nice walk or something, no need to be so fired up, it’s just the internet):
- noted on the readability call out. Was trying to keep things minimal, similar to HN itself, I’ll see what I can do to make the contrast better
- I added the summaries because it’s something I want on sites like this. Every individual article page contains a direct link to the original site. I’m intentionally not rendering the full article content like a feed reader so that a gist/teaser is available for users to hopefully send them to the original article.
- you are free to not use the site if you think my intent is nefarious, again it’s just the internet after all
Re: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
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#186Funny timing — I tried to submit my own Show HN today for a small Linux app I've been building and got blocked because my account is too new. Spent the afternoon reading through HN threads to build up some karma instead. Feels like the indie software equivalent of the same problem this project is trying to solve — it's getting harder for small, genuine projects to find an audience without gaming some system first. Ap…
HN submissions are reviewed/banned after the fact as far as I know. It is reasonable to put a minimum karma threshold before one is allowed to submit. Conversely, this site shared here relies on manual reviews before something goes live, which won't scale at all. There's no system to "game" here.
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#187Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.
> Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this One of these hand-curated blog aggregator websites pops up on HN about every month. They're cool and good on the author for trying to solve the problem, but it seems like the wrong approach to me. They're too disorganized, a random collection of mostly tech- and politics-related writing from random people with zero way to vet the qu…
The quality concern is real but I think it assumes writers are optimising for reach in a broad sense. I started writing about backend engineering a few weeks ago and what I actually want is to find the right hundred people, not a million random ones. Substack surfaces AI takes. HN surfaces whatever's trending. There's no feed for 'engineer who's been running Postgres in production for a decade and has things to say about it.' The problem isn't that I want to go viral, it's that even targeted discovery doesn't exist.
Re: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
#188Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.
Webrings didn't fail because the idea was bad. They got buried under SEO and social feeds. Now that both of those are broken, hand curation starts to look less like a step backward and more like the only thing that was ever actually working.
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#190Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.
> Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this One of these hand-curated blog aggregator websites pops up on HN about every month. They're cool and good on the author for trying to solve the problem, but it seems like the wrong approach to me. They're too disorganized, a random collection of mostly tech- and politics-related writing from random people with zero way to vet the qu…
Reading aggergated news is somewhat of an art. I add and remove feeds and do keyword filterin then i scan over the 5000 newest headines and find 1 to 4 things that are really great finds (to me).
Maybe if you do that for 1000 days some automation can find a pattern in it? I doubt it. Filtering out garbage hundreds of items at a time is definetly doable.