Ask HN: Is there a website for finding underrated people doing cool stuff?

[spikey_sanju]

Hey, I'm searching for a platform/website where I can discover individuals who are working on unique, innovative, or underappreciated projects.

I'm interested in finding people who are doing something truly cool but might not be getting the recognition they deserve.

P.S. Not interested in Product Hunt or Indie Hackers.

[jerhewet]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/mic...

The Partnership for Public Service (linked in the article). Pointing at The Canary because I think it fits your request to a T.

[mtmail]

Many on https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew don't get the number of upvotes they deserve. I'm always happy when I upvotes and hours later see the submission again on the frontpage.

[gregjor]

Maybe here in the “show hn” subset. Github repos, though you’d have to do a lot of digging.

“Cool” and “underrated” describe subjective judgments, not inherent properties of projects or people.

[mindcrime]

I mean.. nobody (no creator anyway) is going to sign up for a site dedicated to promoting their work as "underappreciated". I don't think you're going to find a single specific site dedicated to the kind of categorization you're looking for. I suspect you're going to have to get good at trawling through many, many different sites and filtering for the things you're looking for.

That said, there are plenty of interesting and underappreciated projects on Github, Sourceforge, Savannah, Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc. as well as sub-reddits like /r/somebodymakethis, /r/somethingimade, etc., Kickstarter, Tindie, and so on. You might also get some mileage out of exploring social media sites that are less mainstream, like various Mastodon sited or other parts of the fediverse. You'll probably find some iconoclast types there who don't share their work on the "major" sites.

[fsflover]

https://wiby.me/

[timeon]

sourcehut/codeberg? But one needs to dig.