The Small Website Discoverability Crisis

1. share-links

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   > A proposal, dear reader: Create a list of bookmarks linking to websites you find interesting, and publish it for the world to see. You decide what constitutes “interesting”.

   That's exactly what I did with share-links : It's a tool that allow you to easily store and share links of things you like on the web.

   Here's the repo where you can find more info (see the file DEPLOY.md if you want to launch an instance on the web): https://gitlab.com/sodimel/share-links

   And here's my own instance, whith over... 4000 links: https://links.l3m.in/

   Want to be surprised? Open this link on a new tab: https://links.l3m.in/en/random/

2. CodeRabbit

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3. Bookmate

   2 3 9 0.0 JavaScript

   Watch changes in Chrome bookmarks, and use bookmarks as an append-only key-value store via an fs-like API.

   

4. janus

   3 3 14 8.8 HTML

   A P2P blog and P2P Chat with no signalling server. Nothin' but RTC! :basketball: (by o0101)

   

5. neocities

   4 297 1,545 9.2 JavaScript

   Neocities.org - the web site. Yep, the backend is open source!

   

   Neocities has taken steps to try to improve small personal web site discoverability, which ends up being like a platform for people making web sites with a hybrid social component https://neocities.org

   I like the idea of calling this the small web, I usually go with something like "personal web site" or "home pages" but it's never quite stuck for me. I hope they've added Neocities to the Kagi small web search because there's some pretty incredible sites available for that: https://neocities.org/browse

6. LinkAce

   5 50 2,896 9.3 PHP

   LinkAce is a self-hosted archive to collect links of your favorite websites.

   

7. PublicData

   6 3 11 5.0

   Public data sets for Marginalia Search (by MarginaliaSearch)

   

   I haven't built a clean workflow for that yet, but in the interim, make a pull request here:

   https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/PublicData/blob/master/s...

   and I'll poke it into the DB.

   If you don't want to dirty your hands with github, you can send me an email at [email protected] :-)

8. website

   7 41 27 9.1 TeX

   The main whatisnuclear.com website (by whatisnuclear)

   

   I went snooping in your HN profile to find the link, and that is a really well done site. Clean design, relevant pictures, and interesting material. It's probably going to cost me an hour or two of productivity today.

   Link for people lazier than me: https://whatisnuclear.com/

9. InfluxDB

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10. webring

    8 6 873 8.7 HTML

    Make yourself a website

    

    I like this author's idea of curating bookmark lists, but I think they are most effective when two criteria are followed: (1) keep the list small, (2) write small notes about each entry.

    For example, the bookmarks list the author links to (https://www.marginalia.nu/links/bookmarks/) has 48 URLs annotated only by category. That's too many for my tiny brain to handle and I move on.

    A webring like Hundred Rabbits' (https://webring.xxiivv.com/) has 203 entries. For me, this is in the same category as 48. (It also reminds me of those "Awesome X" lists on GitHub that end up flooded with hundreds of links.)

    To attempt an example of what I mean, here's the bookmark list I publish on my website:

    - Bret Victor (http://worrydream.com/) • interaction and abstraction

11. TermKit

    9 23 4,431 0.0 JavaScript

    Experimental Terminal platform built on WebKit + node.js. Currently only for Mac and Windows, though the prototype works 90% in any WebKit browser.

    

12. RSS-Link-Database

    10 14 22 9.5

    Bookmarked archived links

    

    My own repositories:

    - bookmarked entries https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database

    - mostly domains https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

    - all 'news' from 2023 https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023

    I am using my own Django program to capture and manage links https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive.

13. Internet-Places-Database

    11 36 135 9.3 JavaScript

    Database of Internet places. Mostly domains

    

    My own repositories:

    - bookmarked entries https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database

    - mostly domains https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

    - all 'news' from 2023 https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023

    I am using my own Django program to capture and manage links https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive.

14. RSS-Link-Database-2023

    12 7 3 9.4 Makefile

    link archive for year 2023

    

    My own repositories:

    - bookmarked entries https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database

    - mostly domains https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

    - all 'news' from 2023 https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023

    I am using my own Django program to capture and manage links https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive.

15. Django-link-archive

    13 29 94 9.7 Python

    Self-hostable link database

    

    My own repositories:

    - bookmarked entries https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database

    - mostly domains https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

    - all 'news' from 2023 https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023

    I am using my own Django program to capture and manage links https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive.

16. catwiki_p3

    14 1 1 3.7 SCSS

    CatWiki (using Python 3)

    

    Is it possible to upload pages to neocities programmatically? I know you have a Ruby-based program to do so, but can i do it by ftp, http, or something similar?

    The reason i ask is I've written (in Python) wiki software catwiki[1] that allows you to write wiki pages in Markdown. At some point I'd like to extend the program to generate a static site based on the contents of the wiki, and it would be nice to be able to automatically upload it to neocities.

    [1]: https://github.com/cabalamat/catwiki_p3

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