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Ask HN: Share your personal website

2026-01-1417:079502388

Hello HN! I am putting together a community-maintained directory of personal websites at https://hnpwd.github.io/. More details about the project can be found in the README at

Hello HN! I am putting together a community-maintained directory of personal websites at https://hnpwd.github.io/. More details about the project can be found in the README at https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd#readme.

As you can see, the directory currently has only a handful of entries. I need your help to grow it. If you have a personal website, I would be glad if you shared it here. If your website is hosted on a web space where you have full control over its design and content, and if it has been well received in past HN discussions, I might add it to the directory. Just drop a link in the comments. Please let me know if you do not want your website to be included in the directory.

Also, I intend this to be a community maintained resource, so if you would like to join the GitHub project as a maintainer, please let me know either here or via the IRC link in the README.

By the way, see also 'Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 - July 2023 - (1014 points, 1940 comments). In this post, the scope is not restricted to blogs though. Any personal website is welcome, whether it is a blog, digital garden, personal wiki or something else entirely.

UPDATE: It is going to take a while to go through all the submissions and add them. If you'd like to help with the process, please send a PR directly to this project: https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd.


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  • By DustinBrett 2026-01-154:3118 reply

    https://dustinbrett.com - Spent years working on my own personal website which is also a desktop environment in the browser. Source @ https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS

    • By akst 2026-01-1523:18

      I love this

      I made something like with a similar aesthetic a few years ago but themed after win95 (which seems to be hardly unique these days). But it had a secret gimmick where aspects of it were implemented with in terms of itself (mostly, file icons could be edited within app and you could see them update on the desktop).

      I had grand plans for it but they never eventuated.

      https://resume.akst.io/

    • By guax 2026-01-1521:11

      It felt like using someone elses computer and exploring their bedroom.

    • By rawxtl 2026-01-1514:011 reply

      I tried opening your site inside of your site and then one more inside that and it stoped. total recursions achieved 1, but man was it cool. Loved it

      • By unsungNovelty 2026-01-1514:451 reply

        I opened like 3-4 times one inside the other and it worked for me though.

        • By pcchristie 2026-01-161:331 reply

          I got to 3, then opened one of his YouTube videos in the "bottom" browser. Nothing seemed to happen then the audio started playing and everything slowed to a crawl. After closing the tab the audio kept playing and my entire PC became unusable until I rebooted. I'm not even mad, I'm impressed!

          • By p4bl0 2026-01-1621:13

            I got to seven on my laptop using Firefox, but then it was too painfully slow to try to open another one. It ran smoothly up to the fifth level tho!

            https://i.imgur.com/YJ4hsCK.png

    • By someguyiguess 2026-01-1515:501 reply

      I love your site!

      I had the same concept for mine but it is Mac OS X Tiger (iOS on mobile breakpoints).

      https://nicksmith.software

      • By yesokayawesome 2026-01-2021:13

        damn, i pressed cmd+w and accidentally shut down your mac sorry

    • By redbell 2026-01-169:07

      I'm a big fan of this project! I've been following it for years now. It was submitted a couple of times to HN:

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779753

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830132

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088777

    • By drussilla7 2026-01-169:30

      really nice project, the UI in the browser feels way more responsive than my Win 11 nowadays....

    • By abronan 2026-01-1518:29

      Oh no.. it has 3D Pinball Space Cadet and Doom, here goes my night :)

      Amazing work on this website! It encourages exploration and navigating the folders to see all the content.

    • By kypro 2026-01-1615:20

      Christ. Nice work man.

      I clicked the link and assumed that you must have been using some JS OS UI library because of how nice it was.

      This is impressive!

    • By nickandbro 2026-01-155:01

      Pretty cool, like your carpe diem post

    • By coda_ 2026-01-156:12

      Amazing! Thanks for sharing this. Lots of nostalgia in there.

    • By sniner 2026-01-157:08

      This is incredible !

    • By anon_anon12 2026-01-1620:03

      Coool

    • By vjay15 2026-01-167:39

      THAT WAS SO COOL, VERY EPIC

    • By diggyhole 2026-01-1515:12

      This is rad.

    • By botanrice 2026-01-1615:17

      this is super impressive! agreed with other commenter, this was a smoother experience than a real windows os LMAO. thanks for sharing <3

    • By kls0e 2026-01-1517:56

      excellent!

    • By yia648 2026-01-1513:16

      cool

    • By khana 2026-01-177:50

      [dead]

  • By simonsarris 2026-01-1420:1613 reply

    https://simonsarris.com - My site

    https://map.simonsarris.com - My newsletter site

    https://garden.simonsarris.com - My garden designer site. Currently making this so anyone can use it! Public alpha at the end of the month I hope.

    https://meetinghouse.cc - My site for helping twitter users find each other

    https://carefulwords.com - My very fast thesaurus site

    • By georgebcrawford 2026-01-1423:271 reply

      I'm an English teacher - I'll be sharing carefulwords with my students and faculty. Thank you, it's bloody great.

      • By AndrewHart 2026-01-1517:00

        It's great, astounding, divine, amazing, splendiferous.

    • By usmanity 2026-01-1420:50

      wow! I love how the background/header generates as the page loads and you can click to add things on it. Overall, the design if amazing!

    • By techInacho 2026-01-1518:32

      Awesome garden designer site! Add a similar idea, found this one https://my-garden.gardena.com but not really what I was looking for. Are you accepting contributions to the source code?

    • By DrinkerOfBeers 2026-01-159:15

      Ooh I like the interactive header

    • By metabagel 2026-01-150:35

      > https://meetinghouse.cc - My site for helping twitter users find each other

      This would be nice for Bluesky. I deleted my account on Twitter after it turned into a hellscape.

    • By nicbou 2026-01-159:09

      I have been a fan of your site for a while. I loved all of your posts and brought you up in conversation sometimes. I also use your list of online galleries all the time. Keep up the good work.

    • By jakubmazanec 2026-01-1721:441 reply

      > https://simonsarris.com - My site

      Too small page margins.

    • By lostlogin 2026-01-1420:311 reply

      Love your garden! How big is your section? Or is this hypothetical?

      Do you keep geese?

      I noticed that tree sizes go to 200 if you put nonsense on the field (text emoticon etc).

      • By simonsarris 2026-01-1420:431 reply

        I have about 7 acres. I kept geese once but they were killed when they ran off with a local 5K that ran by my house and they followed. They were never found.

        I have kept ducks (meat) and chickens (eggs) at various times, but I ate all the ducks and I gave away the chickens just last month. Unfortunately free ranging chickens have been very destructive to my gardening, and I am trying to make the 2nd largest rose garden in NH, so that goal has priority.

        • By lostlogin 2026-01-157:091 reply

          Wow.

          Also, what’s a 5k?

          • By matkv 2026-01-157:31

            I'm guessing they mean a 5 kilometer running race, those are usually called 5k.

    • By canadiantim 2026-01-151:34

      The garden website if beautifully done actually. I quite like how imperfect and non-straight the lines are eg of the house

    • By DaveZale 2026-01-153:33

      that garden site is something I'll return to. I have a "baby" site at xeriscape.neocities.org and this kind of feature would be muy excellente to include

      thanks

    • By akst 2026-01-152:48

      Did you hand draw those sketches on your personal site?

    • By therealbilliam 2026-01-1420:301 reply

      how did you make those animations on your main site?

      • By simonsarris 2026-01-1420:40

        I did it all by hand in HTML canvas. I have spent a long time making such things for years. My day job is making a canvas-based Diagramming library so I have some practice.

        If you click on it the scene creates more objects by the way. And if you right-click and drag you can move them around.

    • By vtr1130 2026-01-223:56

      And you charge 12$ for pinning your location on meetinghouse.cc, and ppl pay for that! Dude, you're a genius.

  • By DrinkerOfBeers 2026-01-159:047 reply

    https://laurikarjalainen.com/

    It's a simple "business card" page built with Angular and 98.css.

    Been thinking of upgrading to plain vanilla js, xp.css and maybe some static site generation or CMS thingy for blog posts

    • By darekkay 2026-01-1510:361 reply

      That's cool! A small idea: if I can resize the window (nice!), I'd expect the maximize button to work, too.

    • By hfduisahfdiasp 2026-01-1510:55

      I love the LinkedIn icon!

    • By Crowz4k 2026-01-159:161 reply

      There’s a slight page jump that I find distracting, but I really like the concept and the overall look.

      • By DrinkerOfBeers 2026-01-159:28

        Thanks for the feedback! You mean the page jump that's happening on page load right?

    • By akst 2026-01-1523:21

      Love the dithering

    • By victords 2026-01-1512:39

      Loved the idea!

    • By cookiengineer 2026-01-1513:20

      lol, that beer drinking was unexpected.

      I kinda love the intentional dithering on the photos though.

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