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Re: Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites

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Post by mdoliwa »

Hi, IndieFeeds is a HN clone, where submissions come from personal websites only. For now I add feeds manually while reading HN. If I see submission coming from personal website I check if it uses RSS and in case it does, I add it to IndieFeeds.com. So now HN works as a filter of content for IndieFeeds :). Site is probably lacking some functionality, but for now I wanted to share it with you and see what you think about this idea.

Besides that I love concept of RSS, so wanted to play with it :)

Re: Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites

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Post by chovybizzass »

mdoliwa wrote: post #2

Hi, IndieFeeds is a HN clone, where submissions come from personal websites only. For now I add feeds manually while reading HN. If I see submission coming from personal website I check if it uses RSS and in case it does, I add it to IndieFeeds.com. So now HN works as a filter of content for IndieFeeds :). Site is probably lacking some functionality, but for now I wanted to share it with you and see what you think ab…

Just registered, no way to post. i'm out.

Re: Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites

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Post by ethink »

mdoliwa wrote: post #2

Hi, IndieFeeds is a HN clone, where submissions come from personal websites only. For now I add feeds manually while reading HN. If I see submission coming from personal website I check if it uses RSS and in case it does, I add it to IndieFeeds.com. So now HN works as a filter of content for IndieFeeds :). Site is probably lacking some functionality, but for now I wanted to share it with you and see what you think ab…

Sounds good. Congrats! Just wondering if it can accept submissions as HN does or it just checks the RSS feed for newly created articles in personal websites? And if my personal website is using RSS, how can I know it's picked by IndieFeeder?

Thanks

Re: Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites

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Post by elviejo »

mdoliwa wrote: post #2

Hi, IndieFeeds is a HN clone, where submissions come from personal websites only. For now I add feeds manually while reading HN. If I see submission coming from personal website I check if it uses RSS and in case it does, I add it to IndieFeeds.com. So now HN works as a filter of content for IndieFeeds :). Site is probably lacking some functionality, but for now I wanted to share it with you and see what you think ab…

If I inderstand correctly, you created an RSS feed agregator, were the criteria for selecting the feeds is that a) they appeared on HN and b) they are perosnal websitea, not corporate..

I think it's valuable... but where do you draw the line betweeb perosnal and corporate can get blurry..

Re: Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites

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Post by mdoliwa »

elviejo wrote: post #5
mdoliwa wrote: post #2

Hi, IndieFeeds is a HN clone, where submissions come from personal websites only. For now I add feeds manually while reading HN. If I see submission coming from personal website I check if it uses RSS and in case it does, I add it to IndieFeeds.com. So now HN works as a filter of content for IndieFeeds :). Site is probably lacking some functionality, but for now I wanted to share it with you and see what you think ab…

If I inderstand correctly, you created an RSS feed agregator, were the criteria for selecting the feeds is that a) they appeared on HN and b) they are perosnal websitea, not corporate.. I think it's valuable... but where do you draw the line betweeb perosnal and corporate can get blurry..

yep, that's correct, in most cases I visit about page and see if it's single person's site.

Re: Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites

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Post by jacobobryant »

mdoliwa wrote: post #2

Hi, IndieFeeds is a HN clone, where submissions come from personal websites only. For now I add feeds manually while reading HN. If I see submission coming from personal website I check if it uses RSS and in case it does, I add it to IndieFeeds.com. So now HN works as a filter of content for IndieFeeds :). Site is probably lacking some functionality, but for now I wanted to share it with you and see what you think ab…

You might be interested in https://hnblogs.substack.com/. You could use its RSS feed as an input source. I'm not sure exactly what the author's filtering process is--I think it's partly filtering out domains that are known to not be personal sites and then going over the remainder manually, or something--but I read it every day, and while I usually don't follow any of the links, every once in a while I find something golden that I never would've found otherwise.
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