[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 :)

[jacobobryant]

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.

[elviejo]

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..

[mdoliwa]

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

[phgn]

Interesting idea! There are so many great posts that otherwise get lost in the noise.

What is your main motivation for building IndieFeeds?

To get more activity onto the site, have you thought about including HN upvote counts & comments?

[mdoliwa]

Good question, and I'm not sure what's the correct answer for this. Sometimes you just want to build something. I guess my main motivation was nostalgia for the times when I first discovered Internet (late 90s) and I remember it as a network of personal sites, usenet and irc :) Besides that I thought it's something people here on HN would like.

[ivanmontillam]

Nice! How I can I add my feed? My website is my username, without the last "m" and dot com!

[mdoliwa]

I added it already.