Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

by ramkarthikk on 4/3/2026, 12:33:45 PM

With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories.There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): <a href="https://text.blogosphere.app/" rel="nofollow">https://text.blogosphere.app/</a> Non-minimal: <a href="https://blogosphere.app/" rel="nofollow">https://blogosphere.app/</a>If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.

https://text.blogosphere.app/

Comments

by: glenstein

Love this! I very much appreciate the inclusion of a lightweight version, as I think lightweight discovery for blogs and the small web is where good tools and apps are needed.Also, given that the lightweight version is very hn styled format it naturally leads my brain to imagining a version with upvotes and commenters (which may be a good or a bad thing) but with the link submission part automated. Not necessarily the intent here but it was the first time that particular combination of possibilities occurred to me as a way to do things.Also curious about how these blogs are indexed/reviewed. Is the list ever pruned over time due to inactivity?

4/3/2026, 2:16:13 PM

by: Hard_Space

Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.

4/3/2026, 12:52:35 PM

by: dchuk

Very clean site, well done. I’ve built something similar, but it also has an algorithmic front page option as well based on the “standard” algorithm from Reddit/HN: <a href="https://engineered.at" rel="nofollow">https://engineered.at</a>I also have it wired up to gpt nano for topic extraction and summary creation per post, if you register for an account (free) you can also follow sources and topics to fine tune things.I have a big list of features to continue adding to it, like an ability to “claim” your site so you can get some analytics from the site, and potentially to boost your site in the algorithm. Might also add a jobs board.If you’re interested, while this site is closed source, the feed monitoring rails engine is open source: <a href="https://github.com/dchuk/source_monitor" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dchuk/source_monitor</a>

4/3/2026, 2:05:10 PM

by: _HMCB_

Superb! Thank you. Psychologically, the minimal version feels perfect; as if it were more connected with the spirit of blogging.

4/3/2026, 2:50:10 PM

by: jasoneckert

This is great, thanks! It sort of feels like browsing for gems in a used bookstore and stumbling onto authentic, personal writing. I'm always up for that, and plan on spending plenty of time exploring the list.I’ve submitted mine as well - cheers!

4/3/2026, 1:51:04 PM

by: rednafi

This is great. But I’ve bookmarked at least 10 of these aggregators over the years, and I never revisit any of them. Partly because I don’t have the time to browse and discover new content.I also don’t read the blog spam from prolific writers who pop up here every two days, especially the low-quality ones constantly yapping about AI. So the number of blogs I revisit is a handful, and I have a page on my site listing them [1]. Some of the blogs I’ve listed also have backlinks to my site. It’s super simple and works fairly well for me. Plus there’s rss.[1]: <a href="https://rednafi.com/blogroll/" rel="nofollow">https://rednafi.com/blogroll/</a>

4/3/2026, 2:27:00 PM

by: colejhudson

Lovely!Those who enjoy this might also like:- <a href="https://kagi.com/smallweb" rel="nofollow">https://kagi.com/smallweb</a>- <a href="https://blogroll.org/" rel="nofollow">https://blogroll.org/</a>- <a href="https://minifeed.net/welcome" rel="nofollow">https://minifeed.net/welcome</a>- <a href="https://ooh.directory/" rel="nofollow">https://ooh.directory/</a>

4/3/2026, 2:33:51 PM

by: bovermyer

There's also this: <a href="https://minifeed.net/global" rel="nofollow">https://minifeed.net/global</a>However, I think (text.)Blogosphere has a nicer interface, personally. Maybe I'm just used to HN.

4/3/2026, 2:23:12 PM

by: bryanhogan

Any plans on adding a way to filter out "lower quality" posts which usually dominate chronologically sorted post lists?And, possibly a way to filter type of content more in-depth than just one category?

4/3/2026, 2:34:46 PM

by: joenot443

I love it.I'd love a search bar and maybe a means to sort by popularity (however you define it.)I like that it's free and clean and direct; I hope it remains that way!

4/3/2026, 2:31:46 PM

by: ml-

Nice job. A small suggestion, unless I completely missed it, an option to filter by post / blog language.

4/3/2026, 12:56:29 PM

by: LostMyLogin

Love this! New homepage for me. Do you have a buy me coffee button to help keep it live?

4/3/2026, 2:15:19 PM

by: nextaccountic

Question, is this strictly chronological, or is there anything at all to make this an "algorithmic feed" like HN, reddit, twitter, or facebook? (list is roughly in the order of less shitty to more shitty, but note that none of them are chronological, unlike, say, a RSS reader aggregating some set of blogs)

4/3/2026, 1:56:37 PM

by: randusername

Great work, I haven't updated my public site in years while I waited for the LLM stuff to play out, but you've inspired me to put it back out there and submit.

4/3/2026, 1:20:05 PM

by: AndrewStephens

I love this (and submitted my blog) - people bemoan the death of the Old Web™ but in reality there is still heaps of great content being created.

4/3/2026, 1:00:52 PM

by: Biologist123

Nice. I can see a version of this working for ever more niche areas. Curated reading lists for areas of interest. At which point a curated list of curated lists becomes viable!

4/3/2026, 1:43:15 PM

by: lemiffe

Great idea! Could you add a "music" category please for blogs?

4/3/2026, 2:07:13 PM

by: obsidianbases1

Something like this is very much needed.I hope to see more things like this.What would be really cool is if there was a personalized algorithm (for you page) that stored data and processed locally.

4/3/2026, 12:49:11 PM

by: SirFatty

Did you use Frontpage to create your frontpage?

4/3/2026, 1:08:57 PM

by: sebastianconcpt

Yeah we need to make curated human signals stronger.

4/3/2026, 1:40:59 PM

by: mmargenot

Very cool! This was a good impetus to actually add RSS to my blog.

4/3/2026, 1:26:47 PM

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4/3/2026, 1:13:39 PM

by: Kye

Variety! I appreciate that it's not all tech writing from tech blogs from people in tech like almost every blog list/aggregator thing on HN.

4/3/2026, 2:27:40 PM

by: efilife

This doesn't have an RSS feed? bummer

4/3/2026, 2:27:04 PM

by: setnone

This is great. I'm curious what's your vision on adding comments?

4/3/2026, 1:00:12 PM

by: Imustaskforhelp

Yes!! I found a new website to use :-)I just hope if you can add dark-mode, I use hackernews essential which adds dark mode and more features which I really like in hackernews, Perhaps something like this can be added but overall I really like it!You have (essentially) just made something which I imagined 2 years ago:<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789661">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789661</a>: Ask HN: Are you interested in a Hacker News alternative which doesnt focus on AI (Oct 9 2024)My point, which has only grown to an even larger degree is that Hackernews has too many AI discussions, which both feels a bit fomo to me and also I am seeing AI generated blog posts and comments now on Hackernews as well.At some point, I want a website where I can talk about the more human aspects, some occasional AI mention is fine but not if a quarter or half of front page is hackernews and some genuinely nice projects don't get the attention :(I had joined hackernews to read those content pieces and fell in love with the human discussion aspect but now there are definitely moments of browsing hackernews which makes me feel as to what I had written in the ask HNmy last line within the ask HN was: I just want people who don't want the latest ai hype to gather around and discuss some other cool things which are "not" AI. This kind of fits into thatAdding my submissions of blog-posts into it in sometime :) See you there!

4/3/2026, 2:23:13 PM

by: danielszlaski

Nice and clean.

4/3/2026, 2:10:15 PM

by: BrokenCogs

Now please build a frontpage for all the frontpages on blogs

4/3/2026, 2:33:33 PM

by: ramraj07

give people the ability to curate their own collections and publish them

4/3/2026, 12:52:25 PM

by: chistev

Great job.Submitted my blog.

4/3/2026, 12:39:11 PM

by: postalcoder

If anyone looking for something even more minimalist, give the HN x Small Web RSS feed a try<a href="https://hcker.news/feeds/atom?period=day&limit=50&smallweb=true" rel="nofollow">https://hcker.news/feeds/atom?period=day&limit=50&smallweb=t...</a>

4/3/2026, 1:14:02 PM

by: the_axiom

What if I have a personal handwritten blog but it has nazist content?

4/3/2026, 12:45:18 PM

by: alc010

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4/3/2026, 2:44:54 PM

by: arrty88

super dope. now make it infinite scroll and put ads all over the place! /s

4/3/2026, 2:31:41 PM

by: kangraemin

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4/3/2026, 1:27:22 PM

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