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Serendipity

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Random URLs are easy. Useful serendipity is hard.I've built a free (no ads) app for both Android and iOS for users who want to swipe/surf between websites they otherwise would never have thought to find, both with some randomness and some light personalisation to keep the experience satiating. Users can also search the live web for uncovered topics - the results of which are then (subject to moderation) added to the corpus. It's a bit like StumbleUpon was but for the modern user.Curious if any of you have any thoughts on how much personalisation you can add before serendipity becomes just another recommendation bubble?Please do try it out and let me know your thoughts!

HN · launched Sep 1, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 56%) · 0 views

Niche: product and content discovery platforms · 144 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -58% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Search & retrieval
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial The mobile web/wrapper app is easy to build, but building a clean, curated, and personalized web crawler/discovery engine without serving junk requires a dedicated pipeline.

What it would actually take: The client can be built in Flutter or React Native with WebView containers and swipe gestures. The backend requires a continuous crawler/curator that indexes niche blogs, personal websites, and independent web projects while filtering out SEO spam, paywalls, and malicious scripts. Maintaining high-quality serendipitous recommendations demands algorithmic graph analysis or embedding-based content clustering over millions of web pages.

Discussion

12 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: TikTok, Directory sites

Concerns raised: Installation friction / requires app download, Content curation quality and whether most web is worth visiting, Market viability as novel concept

Feature requests: Web version / browser-based access, Desktop version, Zero-install web trial

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 98 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #30 of 99 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.

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