Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web(swurf.org)
63 points by webtjb096 | 29 comments
Swurf is a web app that lets users swipe through real websites one after another, learning preferences and never repeating a page.
#indie-web on Hacker News
20 stories tagged indie-web, newest first.
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog(nelson.cloud)
653 points by meysamazad | 398 comments
A short personal blog post arguing that AI-generated images on personal blogs make the author distrust the text and discourage reading.
Substack writers, you need a website(elizabethtai.com)
611 points by speckx | 319 comments
Blog post by Elizabeth Tai arguing that Substack writers should maintain their own independent websites rather than relying solely on the platform.
Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs(text.blogosphere.app)
716 points by ramkarthikk | 185 comments
Blogosphere's minimal text frontpage, an HN-style aggregator listing recent posts from personal blogs across many categories.
Have a fucking website(otherstrangeness.com)
726 points by asukachikaru | 410 comments
Blog post by Merritt K on Other Strangeness urging people and businesses to maintain their own websites rather than relying on social media platforms.
The “small web” is bigger than you might think(kevinboone.me)
515 points by speckx | 216 comments
Kevin Boone's blog post arguing the non-commercial "small web" of personal sites, including Gemini capsules, is larger than people assume, based on feed aggregators.
Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you(ooh.directory)
552 points by hisamafahri | 134 comments
Ooh.directory is a curated directory of 2,380 blogs organized by topic categories such as arts, computing, science, and personal blogs.
Ask HN: Share your personal website
842 points by susam | 2217 comments
An Ask HN thread inviting users to share their personal websites for a community-maintained directory hosted at hnpwd.github.io.
A website to destroy all websites(henry.codes)
726 points by g0xA52A2A | 354 comments
An essay by Henry on henry.codes arguing for personal, handmade websites as an alternative to the corporate, platform-dominated web.
Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?(disassociated.com)
588 points by gnabgib | 353 comments
A blog post from disassociated arguing that personal blogs have made a comeback and asking whether niche, topic-focused blogs should return too.
This website is for humans(localghost.dev)
531 points by charles_f | 283 comments
A personal blog post on localghost.dev arguing that the author's website is made for human readers, not AI search engines that scrape and repackage content.
What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)
355 points by wonger_ | 106 comments
A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.
My website is ugly because I made it(goodinternetmagazine.com)
508 points by surprisetalk | 123 comments
Good Internet magazine essay in its Webweaving section arguing for personal, self-made websites even if they look ugly, by the creator of taylor.town.
1M Users(blog.spacehey.com)
692 points by theneedful | 166 comments
Blog post by SpaceHey's creator announcing the MySpace-inspired social network reached 1 million registered users and describing recent improvements.
Where Have All the Websites Gone?(fromjason.xyz)
492 points by benrutter | 375 comments
A personal blog essay reflecting on how the web has shifted from discovering independent websites to algorithmic social media feeds.
Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet(blakewatson.com)
706 points by blakewatson | 310 comments
A personal blog post by Blake Watson describing omg.lol, a community web service, as a refuge after leaving Twitter.
The Frustration Loop(herman.bearblog.dev)
431 points by zdw | 122 comments
Herman's blog post describing his ongoing fight against human spam farms abusing the free Bear blogging platform for SEO backlinks.
Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
856 points by revskill | 1271 comments
An Ask HN thread inviting Hacker News users to share links to their personal blogs, with commenters posting their sites.
Full Time(marginalia.nu)
869 points by kevincox | 137 comments
Blog post by the Marginalia Search developer announcing they have left their job to work on the independent search engine full time.
Marginalia: DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content(search.marginalia.nu)
513 points by thunderbong | 179 comments
Homepage of Marginalia, an independent open-source DIY search engine favoring non-commercial and lesser-known websites, hosted on a single PC in Sweden.