# Kagi Small Web

46 Hacker News commenters recommended Kagi Small Web and 30 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a free way to discover independent personal blogs and sites. Critics most often say it skews toward American tech blogs and includes AI-generated posts.

## Why people recommend it

- Discovering independent personal blogs and sites (3 comments): "Another nice place to discover independently maintained personal websites" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402616)) "I like Kagi's small web initiative to help people find personal sites" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491627)) "Kagi small web is great for discovering stuff like this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011758))
- Interesting content, addictive browsing (4 comments): "it gets a bit addictive, you spend hours on it but end up finding interesting content" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413489)) "it's really nice and I can totally see becoming addictive" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411244)) "i've already seen lots of nice stuff on there" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588156))
- Curated list of about 5,000 sites (2 comments): "5,000 curated sites is small enough to be useful" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411646)) "The open Small Web list[0] is invaluable." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922808))

## What people warn about

- Much of the content looks AI-generated (4 comments): "Because it breaks multiple of their guidelines: multi-author, all fake authors, and all LLM content at non-human scale." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688279)) "I do love the concept, but a little part of me died each time I came across an article with a very strong AI voice." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411125)) "if you select the "programming" category and click around for a short while, you get a fair amount of obvious AI slop" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413054))
- Skews toward tech blogs, not diverse (4 comments): "It doesn't look very "small" to me. I "next post"ed a few, and most of them ended up being just some typical tech bro blog" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427600)) "It’s all mostly American tech blogs. I mean, it’s a nice initiative, but it’s less diverse than Hacker News." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025571)) "I noticed that Kagi Small Web tends to lean towards more tech focused blogs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409507))
- Criteria too strict, excludes many sites (5 comments): "Unfortunately Kagi's definition of "small web" is: blog or webcomic. You must have an RSS feed and it must have recent posts." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416420)) "Restricting visibility to blogs that post at least every week doesn't feel very 'small web' to me." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719462)) "far more interesting and relevant "small web" websites are outside the filter than in it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403014))
- Ads, cookie walls and awkward navigation (4 comments): "The custom cursor (well why not) had me struggling to following a link, and instinctively I refreshed the page." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411124)) "it took me 3 clicks of "next" to hit a page with a cookie dickover. Might need to tweak the filter." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332021)) "It still includes results that have advertising, and omits stuff that isn't small but is ad free" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675963))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Wander small web explorer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wander.md): 31 recommend
- [Ooh.directory](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ooh-directory.md): 26 recommend
- [Personal blog frontpage](https://hackerapproved.com/p/personal-blog-frontpage.md): 21 recommend
- [Bubbles.town](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bubbles.md): 16 recommend
- [RSS.Social](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rss-social.md): 14 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://kagi.com/smallweb/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fd3v.one%2Fa-million-apps-not-a-single-new-idea%2F)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Kagi Small Web", https://hackerapproved.com/p/kagi-small-web/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).