Blogosphere - Personal Blog Aggregator

The indie web needs discovery. An aggregator that collects and surfaces recent posts from personal blogs across categories, with both minimal (fast/static) and full-featured versions. Target users: blog readers, indie writers, communities.

RSS and the open web are seeing a genuine revival — Substack's growth has paradoxically pushed readers back toward independent blogs, and communities like Hacker News regularly surface "blogroll" threads with thousands of upvotes. Planet Hacker News and similar aggregators already exist in niche forms, and the broader category has historical precedent in Planet aggregators from the early 2000s, meaning the concept is proven but not dominated by a well-funded incumbent. The $200–1k/mo revenue band is honest for this space — display ads on a low-engagement discovery product and optional newsletter sponsorships can get you there, but it's a ceiling, not a floor, and subscription revenue from readers is historically very hard to capture. The single most likely failure mode is the cold-start problem: without a critical mass of quality blogs indexed, readers don't return, which means no growth signal, which means writers don't care to be listed — the product stalls before it finds its loop.