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

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Post by thebestmoshe »

phgn wrote: post #60
thebestmoshe wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m building something like this. It’s not yet available publicly, but you can see my personal page at https://ideas.moshegrunwald.com You can see more details about this specific idea [here]( https://ideas.moshegrunwald.com/ideas/i_mos2 )

This is so cool! I love the upvote function :) Could you put it at /ideas on your website so it appears on aboutideasnow.com?

It's currently available as a subdomain of my personal site, since I have not yet finalized the domain for this project. However, each user's page will be at a path of the primary domain (e.g. example.com/moshe). `/ideas` is not supported at a sub-path (e.g. example.com/moshe/ideas).

I will be supporting custom domains, so I could support `/ideas` only for those sites.

Other options include redirecting/rewriting your personal `/ideas` path to this product. Or, offering subdomains (e.g. moshe.example.com/ideas)

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

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Post by phgn »

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 I really want people to write more /ideas pages.

Why did you want to see a list of people's /now pages?

[0] An earlier version of this site was actually called ideasideasideas.io and had only /ideas posts. But the other content makes the search much better.

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

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Post by bbsz »

anon115 wrote: post #46

i feel like this could be its own social media idk.

I had the same thought. Doesn't aggregation of this type fall pretty squarely with federated/activitypub/bluesky -kind-of-a-thing?

It became almost pointless to try to host such a small search/aggregator as a separate web (discovery through web search is almost impossible and it's hard to make people stay on a new website today because of activity sinkholes like twitter/reddit. add to it a hassle of managing modern application at scale etc).

I don't know. But I feel that projects like such will have a higher 1yr survival rate when developed directly as a "feed".And, AFAIU, that's what activitypub got created for.

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

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Post by phgn »

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 the website.

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

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Post by phgn »

bbsz wrote: post #63
anon115 wrote: post #46

i feel like this could be its own social media idk.

I had the same thought. Doesn't aggregation of this type fall pretty squarely with federated/activitypub/bluesky -kind-of-a-thing? It became almost pointless to try to host such a small search/aggregator as a separate web (discovery through web search is almost impossible and it's hard to make people stay on a new website today because of activity sinkholes like twitter/reddit. add to it a hassle of managing modern a…

That's very interesting... What would you like to see "updates" about?

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

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Post by phgn »

1123581321 wrote: post #65

This is really cool. I'd love to see duplicates or near-duplicates (as determined by the LLM?) to help match the thinkers.

YES!

Submit your website on the site and enter an email address in case this ever gets implemented :)

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

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Post by esrh »

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…

It's also not visible on mobile

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

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Post by phgn »

esrh wrote: post #68
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…

It's also not visible on mobile

True, I removed it there without Louis noticing :)

Why do you want to filter posts by type?

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