Show IH: I built a better way to discover weird and useful websites
I built Internet Intro to help people find interesting websites outside the same few apps, feeds, and search results.
It’s a free, human-curated collection of useful, weird, independent, experimental, and overlooked web projects. No signup, no subscription, no locked content.
You can browse through a few different views, including an embedded view, feed view, directory view, and search view.
The goal is simple: make the web feel explorable again, and help small creators get discovered by people who would actually enjoy their work.
Would love feedback from other indie hackers, especially on discovery, curation, and how to make it more useful for both visitors and makers.
This is a nice idea, especially with how repetitive the web feels now.
The challenge with anything curated is always quality over time. It’s easy to make it interesting early on, but harder to keep it feeling fresh without it turning into another list of the same types of sites.
The other side is discovery for the creators. Getting listed is one thing, but making sure the right people actually find them is where it gets tricky.
How are you thinking about keeping the curation quality high as it grows?
Totally agree. That is the main challenge.
I do not want it to become a giant link dump. I would rather add fewer sites and keep the quality high.
My plan is:
For creators, I agree that just being listed is not enough. The goal is to give each good project a better chance of being found by people who actually care about it.
So I am trying to keep it small, useful, and opinionated instead of scaling it like another feed.
That makes sense. Keeping it small and opinionated is probably what keeps it valuable. Once it turns into volume, it loses what makes it interesting.
The pruning over time is a good call as well. .. That’s probably what stops it drifting.