Cloudhiker
Shares rank 10 of 11 blog directories by recommenders
People recommend Cloudhiker as a StumbleUpon-style way to find personal blogs and great websites across many categories.
People recommend Cloudhiker as a StumbleUpon-style way to find personal blogs and great websites across many categories.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Successor to StumbleUpon
“Cloudhiker is pretty healthy as a StumbleUpon revival. I've found lots of great personal blogs and sites across a lot of categories through it.”
Comment from 22 Nov 2025 in “Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?” “Personally my favorite spiritual successor to stumbleupon has been cloudhiker.net.”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Kagi Small Web” Finds personal blogs and niche sites
“Cloudhiker is pretty healthy as a StumbleUpon revival. I've found lots of great personal blogs and sites across a lot of categories through it.”
Comment from 22 Nov 2025 in “Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?” “I built Cloudhiker exactly for this: exploring great websites.”
Comment from 2 Jan 2026 in “A website to destroy all websites”
Other blog directories people recommend
The four most recommended other blog directories, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kagi Small Web | 46 | 30 | 61% | 9 | — | — |
| Wander small web explorer | 31 | 3 | 91% | 7 | 1 mo3 owners | Approved |
| Ooh.directory | 26 | 5 | 84% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Personal blog frontpage | 21 | 1 | 95% | 2 | — | — |
| CloudhikerThis page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Some places to discover those cool websites:”
“There are still a lot of alternatives”
“Personally my favorite spiritual successor to stumbleupon has been cloudhiker.net.”
“That is an astoundingly bad take.”
“I built Cloudhiker exactly for this: exploring great websites.”
“Cloudhiker is pretty healthy as a StumbleUpon revival. I've found lots of great personal blogs and sites across a lot of categories through it.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.