Half the reason I keep a bookmarks series at all is a stubborn belief in the small, human, link-driven web. This set is about finding it again: where to read good independent writing, and where to put your own work so people (and crawlers) actually find it.
Submission.Directory: websites to submit your website to A hand-picked directory of places to submit a site, startup, or product, including launch platforms, SaaS directories, AI-tool catalogs, maker communities, design galleries, and indie-web listings. Each entry shows domain rating, link type, and cost. It answers the recurring question of where to list a newly shipped project. Appropriately, the directory launched through Show HN.
Bubbles.town: Hacker News, but for independent blogs A community-ranked feed of independent blog posts, filterable by topic and vote count: “good stuff bubbles up, the rest pops.” It surfaces personal-site writing that is otherwise hard to find, with recent topics including color perception, indie-web ladders, and “your app could’ve been a webpage.” A daily or weekly Briefing collects the most-voted posts. It has quickly become one of my regular reading sources.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) The recurring “what are you building” thread, which is basically a live cross-section of what indie makers are shipping right now: search engines, k8s clients, optics simulators, SQL-canvas agents, tiny health-tracking apps. I skim these both for ideas and for a gut-check on where builder energy is going.
Ask HN: Favorite text-heavy blogs that are a joy to read A thread born from someone redesigning their own blog and wanting examples where the reading experience is great: good fonts, sane line length, well-formatted code, thoughtful navigation. The replies are a mini-syllabus of beautifully typeset sites (gwern, matklad, Julia Evans, Maxime Heckel, and more). I’m mining this for my own site.
Hacker Newsletter #798 This weekly Hacker News recap surfaced several links in these recommendation posts. It is a low-effort alternative to following HN directly, and the June 19 issue provides a representative sample of the format.