Hacker News: ramkarthikk

New comment by ramkarthikk in "The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites"

ramkarthikk — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:15:31 +0000

Thank you for sharing text.blogosphere. This is a cool list, and I love the wander page you've built.

New comment by ramkarthikk in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"

ramkarthikk — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:15:12 +0000

I've been using this for the past month or so and have had nothing but positive experience. It's easy to use and works well. I wish the zoom was a slider instead of preset options, that way I could get finer control. Easily one of the best apps I found recently along with Handy.computer.

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:46:40 +0000

Thank you for the detailed feedback. I'm glad you like this project.

1. Yeah, there are definitely more blogs. Seems like an issue paginating and fetching it at build time. I will check this. 2. I generally don't prefer infinite scroll but since people are used to it on social media, I kept it on the modern version. It does make it impossible to see the footer. I will figure out a way around this. In the meantime, the "Submit" page should display the footer.

I'm also going to add search to the minimal version since I also prefer it over the modern version and search is useful.

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:08:29 +0000

Ah, thank you. I will check this.

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:47:37 +0000

That is such a lovely way to put it. Do you mind if I add it to the about page and link to this comment?

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:43:46 +0000

Yes, unfortunately spam and rude replies come with comments. I also don't have comments on my blog. I instead have one of those email masking services that allows to people to email me (and I have found this effective).

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:41:17 +0000

Appreciate it :) I don't have one. This is hosted on Cloudflare as a static site and a cron that runs on a $5 VM (that also hosts other things). So it doesn't cost me much to keep it alive other than the domain cost. I built it this way intentionally so that I can keep this running forever.

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:38:20 +0000

No plans to add a filter for "lower quality" since that takes away from the ethos of RSS. Certainly looking to add more ways to filter. Open to ideas.

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:32:05 +0000

It's the next item on the list I plan to add. Likely will be adding it today.

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:31:01 +0000

Thank you. The initial list was from blogroll.org (mentioned in the about page, and I emailed the person who built that). From then on, I review every submission that happens via the form.

The scheduler flags blogs that fail and doesn't try to fetch after a few tries. I'm still working on an effective way to re-review and prune. Open to any feedback.

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:59:10 +0000

This is strictly chronological. No voting, no algorithm.

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:34:00 +0000

Its chronological - most recently published first (no algorithm or voting).

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:09:48 +0000

If you're referring to comments on the website, I plan to keep it minimal (the text version is a static site).

If you're referring to comments on blogs in general, I have many thoughts. Back in the day, comments used to be how you connected with people and let other people find you. It also came with spam (spam plugins could only do so much).

With the rise of static site generators, most people don't have comments on their blogs now. It is something I miss though.

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:02:03 +0000

Great feedback. I will add search to this minimal version. The non-minimal version comes with search. Filter by language is something neither has and will be a great addition.

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:56:34 +0000

On the non-minimal version, you can signup for an account and follow blogs (curate your fav blogs). I will add an option to making your list public.

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:51:53 +0000

Thank you. I wanted to mostly stay away from algorithmic feed to stay true to RSS. On the non-minimal version of the site, you can sign up and follow blogs to have a "For You" tab, but it's still recent posts from blogs you follow.

New comment by ramkarthikk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:45:23 +0000

Thank you. I approved your blog. Quick note: It looks like your feed items don't have published date which makes it hard to store and sort recent posts.

Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

ramkarthikk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:33:45 +0000

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): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/

If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625952

Points: 768

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The Start-Stop Problem

ramkarthikk — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:01:16 +0000

Article URL: https://kramkarthik.com/the-start-stop-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281678

Points: 2

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New comment by ramkarthikk in "Blogosphere – a directory of independent blogs and personal websites"

ramkarthikk — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:51:43 +0000

Thank you for submitting this. I built this over the weekend. I have been blogging since the mid-2000's when blogging was at it's peak. There was a whole community around it - familiar faces commenting, friends promoting each other's post - sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, and Technorati where you could find interesting new blogs.

And then it slowly faded away as social media platforms rose in popularity. There are still many people who blog but not enough places to find them since the social platforms pretty much deprioritize external links.

I built Blogosphere to aggregate posts from over 1,000 blogs (adding more every hour and you can add them via the "Submit Blog") along with categories to help people find new and interesting blogs.