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Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

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Post by sivers »

Very cool. I've got all the /now pages from https://nownownow.com/ in my PostgreSQL database (I'm the creator/admin of it) so feel free to contact me if you'd like a more direct data connection. https://sive.rs/contact

I'm currently going through every site on nownownow.com by hand, removing the dead and spam ones, since after years of automated scripts it deserved a personal visit to verify. While doing that, I'm updating things like when each site was last-updated and last-visited.

Anyone reading this, if you've got a /now page on your site, please email me so I can add you to nownownow.com

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

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Post by plumeria »

phgn wrote: post #79
joeriddles wrote: post #71

I added my site and received the following response: > josephriddle.com/ideas without update time I looked into the source code to determine how it's finding the update time. Come to find out, it's using ChatGPT! [0] It appears to only be looking at the article contents for the date, not at any page metadata. [0] https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/blob/main/apps/a...

Yep but there is a fallback to metascraper [0] which does check the HTML tags. However the fallback didn't work in case GPT returns a 1970 date -- I just fixed this! [1] I think you can now remove the date from your post content and it should still work. If you submit your website again it should do a re-scrape if you changed the content text. Thanks for catching this :) [0] https://metascraper.js.org/#/ [1] https://…

It would be nice if it also supported the If-Modified-Since and If-Unmodified-Since precondition headers.

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

#95

Post by jseliger »

joeriddles wrote: post #71

I added my site and received the following response: > josephriddle.com/ideas without update time I looked into the source code to determine how it's finding the update time. Come to find out, it's using ChatGPT! [0] It appears to only be looking at the article contents for the date, not at any page metadata. [0] https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/blob/main/apps/a...

I tried to add https://jakeseliger.com, and I got an error saying that there is no "about" page. But if you look at https://jakeseliger.com/about, there is in fact one!

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

#96

Post by bhasi »

phgn wrote: post #80
bhasi wrote: post #77

Great! I don't have an /about or /ideas page, but I do have a /now and a /uses page. https://gurudas.dev I currently only have a short blurb on my landing homepage instead of a full /about page because I struggle with anxiety when trying to describe myself and my journey so far (also impostor syndrome). I like the /ideas page too, but I may not end up finishing ideas if I get my dopamine fix early by publishing them…

That's fine, good that we index all three page types. I'm wishing you all the best in San Jose! :)

Thanks a lot! I really love this superset of /now pages with your own great idea of an /ideas page.

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

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Post by RamblingCTO »

phgn wrote: post #64
RamblingCTO wrote: post #59

Awesome, just added this! I'm looking for someone to grow my "micro PE" of two side projects together, because I sure can build stuff, but not make them grow -> https://andinfinity.eu/about/ (or /now) I have paying customers for 2markdown, but not nearly enough for the potential it has.

2markdown is actually very interesting. You could expand into handling request proxies + JS rendering for people as well then it would be the easiest way to index web pages. We should definitely chat. I built unclutter.it before and the content ingestion for a reading tech startup. Will send you an email. And thank you for the shout out of aboutideasnow.com :) Making connections like this is exactly the purpose of th…

Would love to hear from you!

I actually pondered going down that road. There's heavy competition though. Getting LLMs in touch with the web, not so much. So I decided to stay in that niche, as almost all customers come from there as well. And I'm integrated into langchain, that drives a big part of the traffic ;)

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

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Post by phgn »

plumeria wrote: post #93
phgn wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep but there is a fallback to metascraper [0] which does check the HTML tags. However the fallback didn't work in case GPT returns a 1970 date -- I just fixed this! [1] I think you can now remove the date from your post content and it should still work. If you submit your website again it should do a re-scrape if you changed the content text. Thanks for catching this :) [0] https://metascraper.js.org/#/ [1] https://…

It would be nice if it also supported the If-Modified-Since and If-Unmodified-Since precondition headers.

Good idea, I just created https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/issues/7 for this!

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

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Post by logtempo »

phgn wrote: post #62
panarchy wrote: post #55

I first thought it would be showing all ideas, about, and now simultaneously, but then noticed all the cards only had /ideas, then I thought I had to do url.com/now only to find that redirected to github instead. Then finally I noticed the little filter button. Kind of feel like the categories shouldn't be behind the button, it's not like they really get in the way visually and with them being the only thing there it…

We actually had an argument about this and I wanted to remove the filters entirely (since I didn't see a use case for filtering), Louis wanted to keep them. The compromise is the filter button :) I agree that showing all recent posts types would be more expected given the title. But with the stated purpose of the site right now being to "find people to collaborate with", /ideas posts are the most useful IMO [0]. And…

filters(template?) buttons are the first things I used. You should keep them. It makes engagement. First thing I want to do on a,new thing is to test it and filters allow this quickly

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

#100

Post by phgn »

jseliger wrote: post #95
joeriddles wrote: post #71

I added my site and received the following response: > josephriddle.com/ideas without update time I looked into the source code to determine how it's finding the update time. Come to find out, it's using ChatGPT! [0] It appears to only be looking at the article contents for the date, not at any page metadata. [0] https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/blob/main/apps/a...

I tried to add https://jakeseliger.com , and I got an error saying that there is no "about" page. But if you look at https://jakeseliger.com/about , there is in fact one!

Oh, looks like the missing page detection went rogue in this case. It found the word "error" in your page and decided to use / instead of /about :)

I just fixed this, sorry!

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