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Re: Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

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Post by ALittleLight »

dglass wrote: post #42

I also made something similar called Stumblefun[0], trying to recreate that StumbleUpon experience but without the need to install a toolbar. Right now it's only focused on SaaS products you may find useful but I'd like to add other categories of websites you can discover in the future. [0]: https://stumblefun.com/

I like the concept, and I like having that the webpage is loaded in a frame so you can keep your controls on top. One thing that might make it easier/faster is if you could use the keyboard controls to go right, up, etc.

Re: Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

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Post by square_usual »

ALittleLight wrote: post #51
dglass wrote: post #42

I also made something similar called Stumblefun[0], trying to recreate that StumbleUpon experience but without the need to install a toolbar. Right now it's only focused on SaaS products you may find useful but I'd like to add other categories of websites you can discover in the future. [0]: https://stumblefun.com/

I like the concept, and I like having that the webpage is loaded in a frame so you can keep your controls on top. One thing that might make it easier/faster is if you could use the keyboard controls to go right, up, etc.

The in-frame load broke it for me. None of them loaded in on Firefox 84, and some explicitly showed an error saying they weren't allowed to load as an embedded frame. I had to open each site in a new tab to be able to see what it was. Loved the service despite that, tbh.

Re: Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

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Post by mazuhl »

dglass wrote: post #50
joshxyz wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Woah this is cocoocoocoocoool

Thanks! I know there are some old urls in there that no longer load successfully that I need to clean up. It's been a few months since I've done any work on this but maybe this is some good motivation to get back to it :)

I really like it too - but one that stumped me when I landed in the homepage was "What do I click to see something?" Maybe add a big green "Ready, let's go!" button underneath the instructions/controls.

Re: Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

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Post by smusamashah »

dglass wrote: post #42

I also made something similar called Stumblefun[0], trying to recreate that StumbleUpon experience but without the need to install a toolbar. Right now it's only focused on SaaS products you may find useful but I'd like to add other categories of websites you can discover in the future. [0]: https://stumblefun.com/

I am only getting various product websites. Is that intentional?

Re: Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

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Post by benbristow »

ALittleLight wrote: post #34
benbristow wrote: post #29

I made something similar but a bit more random. https://randomdomain.benbristow.co.uk Keeps taking a random word from an English dictionary and a random popular domain extension (com/net/org etc.), pings it and returns the first one that responds. Quite fun once you sift through the parking pages. I need to work on something to detect those.

Ah, now that really is random! One idea for sifting parking pages that comes to my mind is using image recognition. I can easily tell when something is a parking page by looking at it, I bet you could get an ML model to do so with pretty good accuracy too. There is a class called fast.ai [1] which I personally found to be an amazing introduction to machine learning / deep learning. The first hour and a half course ge…

Haha, cheers.

That sounds pretty fun.

Knowing myself though I'd just make a manual checker as most of the parking sites are ran by a few companies (e.g. GoDaddy etc.) so they'd be pretty easy to pick-up.

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