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Show HN: Search Engine for Blogs
Hey HN,<p>Blog discovery is a problem [0] due to the decentralized nature of online writing. Everyone writes on their own site or platform, and there’s no central place that brings everything together. Google results prioritize large media publications over blogs, so we need something else.<p>Blog Surf is an attempt to organize all of the great online writing done by individuals. I launched this project last year as a directory of personal blogs [1], but have now rebuilt it from scratch into a full-text search engine for blog posts.<p>You can search for blog posts, and filter by publish date and reading time. Blogs are manually reviewed before being added.<p>Posts are sorted by MarketRank [2], which is a measure of popularity across various online communities. Most projects that have attempted to organize blogs lack any way to measure the quality of a post, reducing their utility. With MarketRank, you can expect the top results for any query to be something you’d want to read.<p>The mental model for searching Blog Surf is “I want to see the best essays on X”<p>There’s also a directory so you can browse blogs by category, if you want a throwback to the Yahoo days.<p>If you’re a blogger yourself, you can check out the rankings page to see how your blog compares to others.<p>If you want to play around with things, we have a search API, and the full post dataset is also available for download.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28591880" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28591880</a><p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26506126" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26506126</a><p>[2] <a href="https://dkb.io/post/market-rank" rel="nofollow">https://dkb.io/post/market-rank</a>
Show HN: Caddy-SSH
Show HN: Caddy-SSH
Show HN: I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch
Show HN: I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch
Show HN: I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch
Show HN: A website to find public pianos
Show HN: A website to find public pianos
Show HN: A website to find public pianos
Show HN: Postgres.js – Fastest Full-Featured PostgreSQL Client for Node and Deno
Show HN: Postgres.js – Fastest Full-Featured PostgreSQL Client for Node and Deno
Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
Show HN: Lunar XDR Brightness control
Show HN: We made an open-source personalization engine
Hey, HN! You probably know that the ordering of products on Amazon, posts in FB, and search results in Google is personalized for each visitor, as it directly affects conversion, click rate and engagement. But not everyone can afford to hire an army of PhDs to squeeze every penny out of the ranking, and not everyone agrees on the current (im)balance between privacy and profits.<p>So we built Metarank, an open-source and privacy-focused personalization engine. It can rerank in real-time any type of content, using only the data you allow, and optimize metrics you define.<p>We made a lot of proprietary DIY services for personalization in e-commerce in our past careers and heard so many complaints from other companies also struggling to implement personalization. It’s often considered "too risky" to spend 6+ months on an in-house moonshot project to reinvent the wheel without an experienced team and no existing open-source tools. Like other people in the industry, we were tired of building everything from the bottom up each time we approached personalization - it should be easy not only for Amazon to do such magical ML tricks, but for everyone else.<p>A small demo of the tool with personalized recommendations: <a href="https://demo.metarank.ai" rel="nofollow">https://demo.metarank.ai</a><p>A blog post on how this demo was made: <a href="https://medium.com/metarank/personalizing-recommendations-with-metarank-f2644112536b" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/metarank/personalizing-recommendations-wi...</a><p>The project itself: <a href="https://github.com/metarank/metarank" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/metarank/metarank</a>
Show HN: We made an open-source personalization engine
Hey, HN! You probably know that the ordering of products on Amazon, posts in FB, and search results in Google is personalized for each visitor, as it directly affects conversion, click rate and engagement. But not everyone can afford to hire an army of PhDs to squeeze every penny out of the ranking, and not everyone agrees on the current (im)balance between privacy and profits.<p>So we built Metarank, an open-source and privacy-focused personalization engine. It can rerank in real-time any type of content, using only the data you allow, and optimize metrics you define.<p>We made a lot of proprietary DIY services for personalization in e-commerce in our past careers and heard so many complaints from other companies also struggling to implement personalization. It’s often considered "too risky" to spend 6+ months on an in-house moonshot project to reinvent the wheel without an experienced team and no existing open-source tools. Like other people in the industry, we were tired of building everything from the bottom up each time we approached personalization - it should be easy not only for Amazon to do such magical ML tricks, but for everyone else.<p>A small demo of the tool with personalized recommendations: <a href="https://demo.metarank.ai" rel="nofollow">https://demo.metarank.ai</a><p>A blog post on how this demo was made: <a href="https://medium.com/metarank/personalizing-recommendations-with-metarank-f2644112536b" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/metarank/personalizing-recommendations-wi...</a><p>The project itself: <a href="https://github.com/metarank/metarank" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/metarank/metarank</a>
Show HN: BoxyHQ – open-source alternative to Auth0/WorkOS
Hi HN, we are Deepak and Sama, co-founders of BoxyHQ (<a href="https://boxyhq.com/" rel="nofollow">https://boxyhq.com/</a>). BoxyHQ provides an open-source platform for developers to quickly integrate enterprise features into their software solutions. These include SAML Single Sign-On (SSO), Audit logs, with more to come :)<p>Every B2B startup faces a common challenge when it comes to selling into the Enterprise; they need to allocate time and resources to support all the requirements to make their offering enterprise-grade. Supporting these requirements is a significant undertaking for the engineering team, especially since they already have their hands full with the core product. We experienced this problem ourselves and that is why we built BoxyHQ, a platform to integrate enterprise features in any SaaS app with just a few lines of code.<p>The main difference with Auth0 and WorkOS is that BoxyHQ is being built on an open source ethos. Our focus is to be a developer-first security platform, putting developers at the centre of our holistic approach and help them close the gap between compliance and security.<p>Please let me know if you have any questions, you can also reach out to me at deepak@boxyhq.com
Show HN: Appwrite – Open-Source and Self Hosted Firebase Alternative
Show HN: Typebeat: Keyboard-controlled music sequencer, sampler, and synth
Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area