I use are.na to store links in appropriate channels. I have their chrome extension mapped to a keyboard shortcut on my desktop. On mobile I use a separate shortcut. I save links many times throughout the day, trying to curate content that I think is useful or interesting. I’m building several tools derived from this practice.
Yeah, pretty similar to StumbleUpon. Right now the links are sourced from a handful of are.na channels and some other collections of content. I plan on warehousing this data and tagging it such that users can configure categories of sites that they'd like to stumble upon. HN submissions are mixed into the algorithm as well.
it starts with sourcing - finding a massive set of interesting pages, then going through and giving them tags. planning on adding this to my web discovery app as well: https://moonjump.app/
Awesome. I have a project with a similar tik-tok-esque philosophy for serving all sorts of noncommercial content from the web. The interface is one button and a random page is embedded in an iframe. I use random wikipedia pages as a fallback in case my algorithm returns a dead page.
It’s a window into the small web. Just click a button to open a random site harvested from are.na, marginalia, etc. It used to just be a server but ever since I’ve made this TikTok-esque UX I’ve been kinda addicted to it
Best of luck. Easily my favorite project. Emailed Viktor last year about using the marginalia API for my side project[1] and he responded almost immediately. I use the API to get marginalia's arcane search results for a given query and choose a random link from those results to redirect. Endless fun.
Hope to see it continue to grow until the internet goes dark.
Oops. I tried to post https://moonjump.app/devtools, which is a server that redirects to a random tool from a very long list of links. The post seems to have hit the server and chosen the first link as the URL
I made a server that redirects you to a random site from a selection of are.na channels, where users actively add interesting sites. There’s a bit more to it than that - you can read about it on the homepage: https://moonjump.app
Sure, this has been possible all along, and I've been using plain old python and javascript to do it. The essence of hacking is in effect making things "malleable to the point that the data it holds can be re-shaped into something else".
That said, I don't have a problem with re-skinning it as something of a bold new frontier. Honestly, it might be useful to express that sentiment at somewhat frequently - maybe it inspires someone who hadn't had that thought before. The advent of LLMs also makes this type of hacking accessible to non-programmers.
> If a website is completely malleable to the point that the data it holds can be re-shaped into something else, then you can almost see a website as an application programming interface (API).
> A future where websites are combined into local frankensteins, only pulling the data it needs and combines it on a new website that does not exist.
This is exactly what I want to see. I've been toying around with similar ideas myself but prompting GPT-n with your instructions will make this extremely accessible. Browser configurability will be crucial, but we seem to be doing pretty well in that regard. Rare moment of optimism. Thanks for posting.