I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity
Details
- External ID
- 46962871
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity
- Website domain
- paperboat.website
- Launched
- Feb. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 81
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.866576819407008
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai developer tools and coding assistants
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- platform for friends and creativity
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a minimalist blogging platform offering subdomains, basic CRUD pages, webrings, and Stripe subscriptions without complex client-side interactions.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: bearblog.dev, mataroa.blog, Larger social networks
Concerns raised: Platform sustainability and long-term viability, Potential for malicious activity as user base grows, Moderation challenges with feed overviews, Simple to code, not technically impressive, Discovery for casual readers without performance metrics
Feature requests: Random site of the day discovery feature, Most visited post/page metrics for discovery, Cross-ring hopping for visitors in multiple webrings, Feed overview of latest blog posts across webring sites
Competitors
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Attention rank: #25 of 169 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 98 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.