Everyone's Packing Up(widdershins.verja.net)
86 points by speckx | 69 comments
A personal blog post reflecting on the trend of people leaving platforms like Reddit, WordPress, and GitHub for smaller, self-hosted spaces and the smallweb.
#personal-websites on Hacker News
21 stories tagged personal-websites, newest first.
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.
Blogging can just be stating the obvious(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
430 points by Curiositry | 124 comments
Jim Nielsen's blog post reflecting on John Gruber's critique of website popups and arguing that blogging can simply be stating the obvious.
Hacker News but for independent blogs(bubbles.town)
543 points by headalgorithm | 178 comments
Bubbles is a link aggregator front page ranking posts from about 5,000 independent personal blogs by votes and freshness, similar to Hacker News.
I’ve banned query strings(chrismorgan.info)
539 points by susam | 277 comments
Blog post by Chris Morgan explaining why his website rejects URLs containing query strings such as tracking parameters.
POSSE – Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere(indieweb.org)
367 points by tosh | 80 comments
IndieWeb wiki page explaining POSSE, the practice of publishing content on your own site first and then syndicating copies to third-party platforms.
Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web(susam.net)
335 points by susam | 78 comments
Wander is a tiny decentralised tool for browsing the small web by hopping between personal websites, showing a toolbar with Wander, Console, and About buttons.
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.
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.
Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere(indieweb.org)
1006 points by 47thpresident | 235 comments
IndieWeb wiki page explaining POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere), the practice of posting content on your own site and copying it to other platforms.
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.
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.
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.
Show HN: HTML for People(htmlforpeople.com)
568 points by blakewatson | 200 comments
HTML for People is a free online guide teaching beginners how to build websites with plain HTML and CSS.
The Static Site Paradox(kristoff.it)
451 points by alraj | 285 comments
Blog post by Loris Cro comparing a complex PHP CMS site with a plain static HTML site, exploring why the simpler option is paradoxically harder for ordinary people.
Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites(danilafe.com)
831 points by fabianholzer | 349 comments
A blog post cataloguing small convenience features the author likes in blogs and personal websites, inspired by Hillel Wayne's language microfeatures article.
Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites(aboutideasnow.com)
514 points by louisbarclay | 103 comments
AboutIdeasNow is a search engine indexing the /about, /ideas, and /now pages of over 7,000 personal websites to help people find collaborators.
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.
Kagi Small Web(blog.kagi.com)
573 points by u2077 | 152 comments
Kagi blog post from September 2023 announcing Kagi Small Web, a feature surfacing non-commercial personal websites and blogs.