Website discovery

First published August 2, 2025.

There was one trivial update made later that day.

People complain about indie-website discoverability. These seem like OK places to find indie content.

Of course, just because something is merely indie doesn’t mean it’s any better — or even, in some cases, any different — than what you’d get on the globocorpo websites.

Size-based

Almost normie

Peelo Paalu Link Directory

Normie

wiby.me — search engine for the classic web
Marginalia Search — prioritizes non-commercial content and has a custom index

Even more normie

Mojeek — search engine that actually has its own index, and says it doesn’t track you
kagi.com/smallweb — flips through indie websites in a large frame

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