I built an API for agents visiting my personal website
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HN · launched May 5, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 51%) · 0 views
Niche: personal websites and portfolios · 52 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 52 launches in personal websites and portfolios →
Could you build this?
Yes The project consists of exposing a small structured REST or JSON-RPC API alongside a static website with an llms.txt and AX manifest for automated agent traversal.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Obsidian (as knowledge brain alternative), Cloudflare (for agent access control)
Concerns raised: Website invisibility to agents difficult to achieve, Heavy JavaScript makes sites uncrawlable by agents, API responses differ from LLM direct knowledge, llms.txt discovery/implementation unclear
Feature requests: Better agent collaboration/API layer documentation, Multi-source data collection (website, LinkedIn, Instagram), Agent orchestration for marketing and project management
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1137 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #538 of 1138 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 188 days after the earliest competitor.
- personal-agent-open-source · github · 2026-09-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- An open source repo to use your personal context with any agent · hn · 2026-11-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- my-agents · github · 2026-09-22 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- my_code_agent · github · 2026-10-20 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- SeekinWeb · hn · 2026-07-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- ClankerView · hn · 2026-05-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Agweb · hn · 2026-11-14 · 87 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Rindler - Turn Any Website Into An API For AI Agents · yc · 2026-07-09 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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