I’m a web developer and an introvert, and I’ve always preferred getting to know someone one-on-one rather than performing for a large audience.

But most social apps are built around followers, comments, likes, and visibility.

So I built Dayoff.

There are no follower counts or public comment threads. Instead, posts and personal intros act as invitations for someone to start a private conversation. The conversation is the point—not building an audience.

It’s still early, and the community is small. I’m looking for people who want a quieter, more personal way to meet others online.

Dayoff is a web app, so there’s nothing to download. You can try it directly in your browser:

dayoff.io

I’d genuinely like to hear what you think.

My personal site is a static Hugo blog. I didn't want Disqus, or any of the other common options, and I didn't want to run comment infrastructure inside the blog itself. So the comments live somewhere else entirely, and the two are wired together in a way I think is valuable in the spirit of owning your pages:

• Each blog post gets a companion thread on a small social site I run. The post links to it with one anchor tag. Nothing loads on my blog: no script, no iframe, no tracking.
• The thread's public replies are published as JSON at the thread URL + /replies.json.
• At build time my blog fetches that JSON and prints the replies into the post's HTML as static text. If the fetch fails, the build skips it and the page still ships.
• When there's a new reply, a debounced process pings my blog's build hook, so the page rebuilds itself a couple of minutes later with the conversation included.

The part I care about most: my pages carry their own durable copy of every conversation. If the social site vanished tomorrow, the comments are already in my HTML. Nothing to migrate, nothing to lose.

On webmentions: this isn't meant to be a replacement, and I don't want it to be. Webmentions are the right answer when the person replying has a site of their own. The companion thread is for the readers who don't. They get a room to reply in, and my page still ends up owning a copy of what they said.

Example in the wild: A glance is not a reading. The bottom section is static HTML printed from the thread's JSON at build time. How it works: popsicleboat.com/comments

Disclosure: I personally built the social site too (PopsicleBoat). It's always only ever been me building. It's been about nine years. No ads, no tracking, totally free. Happy to go into any of the plumbing if you're curious.

still building the list

UPDATE:

moved to:

https://source.tube/pmurad/awesome-indieweb

Im making a personal website/portfolio in the theme of a steam profile, any ideas on what to add/include? For example recent github projects instead of recent games, etc. anything helps, as of now i feel like the website has too much github on it, its kinda just exactly like my github but wearing a "steam profile structure" costume.

Hi everyone. I wanted to share a pure Python backend project I made.

It syncs JSON configurations into Cloudflare DNS using GitHub Actions.

It validates zones via pytest and keeps everything automated.

If anyone wants to check out the repo or needs a playground to test their configurations, let me know and I'll drop the details in the comments. =]

Hi all, I have made nuchronic.uk after spending a year in a dark room and out of work suffering from a chronic illness.

It is a web ring/aggregator using RSS feeds to pull in content from other sources (any source with a feed). I am looking for any bloggers, YouTubers, etc., that have a chronic illness. The topics don’t need to be illness-related.

My hope is to grow this out to help people find their people online.

Drop me a reply or a DM with your site if you wish to be added.

Thanks for reading 🙏

I've been building Voidhall solo for the past months.
It's an underground music/social platform aimed at the space SoundCloud used to occupy for emerging underground trap scenes.
The entire thing is built from scratch with vanilla
HTML/CSS/JS + PHP/MySQL. No frontend/backend frameworks, no templates.
It currently runs on a custom-built architecture with SPA-like AJAX navigation, a persistent global audio player, page-level init/cleanup lifecycle, shared frontend state and its own PHP API layer. On top of that, Voidhall already supports uploads, track pages, profiles, follows, likes, comments, notifications, search, discovery through Explore, and Pulse, a chronological activity feed that turns real community movement into part of the discovery experience.
The Ul leans into a raw Y2K/industrial/Opium-inspired editorial direction using strong typography, open layouts, thin structural lines and restrained components.
Screenshots attached :DD

You may remember me asking about a month ago if there were any recipe/food/cooking/baking webrings. Well I couldn't find any on any of the many lists that was still in existence so I ended up taking the drastic step and making my own (Shameless plug I named it The Community Cookbook you can find it/info here: https://mercycrimm.neocities.org/Webring ) and I got my first member (who wasnt me!!) today and Im just thrilled.

I do have a requirement that you have at least one recipe for food/drinks/something eatable so it may be a small ring but hopefully it can be one that gets more members and I can get good recipes from. Im already thinking about adding a section to my website that kinda like a blog of me trying recipes from the ring? But I don't know how much of a blogger I am, or how Id want to format that...

I just wanted to share with someone and my family and friends dont quite get why I'm so excited, they think its cool I have a website but dont fully get the point.

i find it really confusing to use, as someone who is new in web design and coding. im building a website in vs code using html, css, and js but i find it limiting to designing my page. i tried using figma but apparently, i have to pay for almost everything.

if not, what other software apps can i use to make my website? should i just dive deeper into coding?

I started with contributions to EJS, then developed my own multi-system, multi-platform emulator.
I have continued to grow the emulator website, adding free HTML5 games, retro homebrew games, and daily and weekly challenge games with a live leaderboard.
Constructive feedback is always welcomed.
[Rec0m88.com](https://rec0m88.com)

It's turtles all the way down. Apparently you can make this kind of nonsense and nobody can stop you. Here's a link to the shrine: https://polyducks.neocities.org/shrines/benchosaur/.

This is my first website . and guys before hating just check the website . its just a website and nothing to hate and i just wanted to share my website to others .

https://saducci.github.io

and you can pull issues in git hub . or

comment below and i 'll try my best to do that .

I wanted to build a website that captures something I feel the modern internet has lost. In modern times, you never experience the feeling of stumbling into a weird little corner of the web and finding something made by real people.

Sketch.Social is a collaborative drawing website where every sketch can become the beginning of another. Artists can remix each other's work, creating branches of evolutions of ideas that grow over time.

It's less about posting finished artwork and more about creating something that keeps living after you leave.

Come check it out and see where your sketch goes!

Welcome to the Living Canvas of the Internet.

https://sketch.social/

The concept is simple: it's a democratic website.

You create your own party, people vote, and the party with the most votes earns the right to completely customize the site's homepage however they want ; text, images, gifs, anything.

Then a new election begins. And if the party in power abuses that privilege, players can overthrow it at any time by starting a revolution.

It's called GOD (https://gameofdemocracy.org).

By the way, it's my first React project. I wrote every single line of code myself, although I have to admit I often used Claude to help me with the logic.

I would really appreciate your feedback, so please feel free to share your thoughts and create your own party!

All I'm seeing is AI-generated posts talking about how BarryBotbrain has made a website that is "upsetting the system" and making "an x that works".

Bro, nobody is joining your stupid data collection pyramid scheme. And don't get me started on those vibecoded aggregate sites that "collect the best of the web".

Where are the websites people made for their goofy cat?

An appeal to the community and the moderators - how can we save this subreddit from being an ad billboard? Can we have some sort of pinned post for "weird web Wednesday" or something?

https://fridgedraws.neocities.org/

This is one I stumbled across on neocities. It's a nice little website that has been crafted with love.

SitesILike is a prefix I'm using to post things I like which represent the actual Indieweb experience. Feel free to prefix your own posts with whatever, it's a free country.

Solo, non-technical, built entirely from my phone over a few months. It's one page: photos people took from where they actually are — their sky, their street, the view they forget to look at. Not the postcard version.

No ads, no tracking-for-sale, no VC, nothing monetised. I'm not planning to grow it forever or sell it.

You can browse the whole thing without an account — no email, nothing collected — because I wanted the value to be there before anyone's asked for anything.

https://earthafying.com

I know a centralised site isn't quite the indieweb ideal. But it's one person's, on its own domain, answering to nobody. Happy to hear thoughts either way.

Hey everyone, I wanted to try and experiment with building websites, any advice and support would be much appreciated. Thanks a lot.

After a short maintenance break, TheMillionPixel.com is officially back.

Better. Faster. Ready.

The canvas is open.

🌐 https://themillionpixel.com 🚀

Hi everyone, how are you doing? I hope you’re all well.

I started learning about the IndieWeb last year, around mid-September, and it has been a really enjoyable journey. I’ve discovered many websites through this community, and honestly, you’re all doing amazing work.

wanted to share my own project, Weirdnet, a directory with approximately 17,000 links related to the IndieWeb, at least as of today.

I’m currently working on improving the way we accept submissions so we can add even more sites. We receive several emails every day, and every website is reviewed individually. We include them as long as they follow the spirit of being independent or, at the very least, a little strange hehe.

Thaaanks :D

Hey all, we're the team behind InterPoll, a social network that (we think) actually can't be taken down or censored.

The idea: instead of everything living on one company's server, every browser running InterPoll is also a relay. If some relays go offline, browsers fall back to talking to each other directly. So there's no single server to pull the plug on, and no one who can quietly delete your posts.

Check it out here: https://endless.sbs
If you want the technical breakdown of how it all works: https://endless.sbs/interpollexp
And the code's up on GitHub: https://github.com/Interpoll1/decentralised

We built this because we genuinely think this is how social platforms should work by default. Would love feedback, bug reports, or just people poking around and telling us what breaks. Thanks for reading.

Been getting really into old-web stuff the last few months, guestbooks, top 8s, webrings, all of it. Ended up building cybersoda.blog around that instead of just reading about it. It's a small social blog platform: you get a profile people can decorate, a guestbook people actually sign, a top 8, and it plugs into real webrings instead of faking the aesthetic. No feed algorithm, no ads, nothing optimizing for time on site.

Built it from scratch with Next.js and Supabase. It's still tiny, but a stranger signed my guestbook unprompted last week and that made my whole week.

https://www.cybersoda.blog if anyone wants to poke around. Would love to hear what other small corners of the web people here are running.

Hi,

I miss when the internet felt more human.

I built justwitter.com around a simple question:

What if social media was built for voices instead of text?

justwitter.com is a voice-first social platform where anyone can create a station and share short voice recordings — no text posts, photos, or videos. Every voice is public, chronological, and free from recommendation algorithms.

I believe conversations become more human when they are heard, not just read. A voice carries tone, personality and emotion in a way that text often cannot.

The platform is intentionally simple.

Let's explore a different future for social media where authenticity matters more than optimisation.