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Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web

webtjb096

Comments (29)

  • hggh
    It reminds me of StumbleUpon [0][0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon
  • retlehs
    Very cool, this reminds me of Kagi's Small Web:https://kagi.com/smallweb/
  • rambambram
    Reminds me of the Wander network from Susam Pal (https://www.susam.net). His console is at https://susam.net/wander/ and my own instantiation is on https://www.heyhomepage.com/wander/ I didn't look at it for some weeks and now that I did it seemed to have grown more!I like the swiping UI from Swurf though. Being shown just one at a time is calming. I did the same thing for my RSS feed reader... it just randomly picks one post from one feed at a time, from thousands of feed sources.
  • xnx
    It's tough to make the swipe interface work for content that is so varied in presentation. It works for Tinder, TikTok, and even WikiTok because the content has a consistent form. With this, you have to reorient yourself after every swipe.
  • smusamashah
    How are the pages loading so quickly. On every swipe I expect next page to take its time to load, but these pages are loading like images.
  • webtjb096
    PS: If you have a blog/site you want people to see - bottom right corner the three dots -> Submit a link. An almost instant way to get eyes on your page.
  • Stitch4223
    Feedback: doesn’t work here. Swiping barely works on an iPhone 11. Swiping with one hand with the left thumb on the left part of the screen does not work at all. Swiping in the horizontal center from right to left can take some time and sometimes does two swipes. If I swipe back I might swipe back in safari and land on hacker news again. Hope this helps, would like to try :)
  • cowlevel
    Nice! I feel like sites with cookie popups deserve to be penalised. How do you know if a page is good or bad - time spent on it?
  • aworks
    There are more sites related to LLVM IR than I need to see but overall, this is a fresh browsing experience. Reminds me of reading random pages back in 1994.
  • satnhak
    it's a good idea, but can you tweak it so that page 1 isn't a flashing naked lady?
  • yuppiepuppie
    First site was Steve Madden shop… is that right?
  • memalign
    I’m curious how you can show arbitrary webpages within your web app. Do you save a snapshot of each page and serve that?
  • porkphish
    Well this is fun!
  • kathan3009
    made me feel like i was on tinder but instead swiping on websites..
  • dumindunuwan
    This feels more satisfied.
  • Mokhles01
    amazing haha
  • lysace
    I like the idea. Maybe add a very brief explanation about how it learns?Also please make a tvOS version. It's a perfect fit. :)Bug report: Copying selected text doesn't work. Mac/Chrome. Via keyboard shortcuts or context menu.