# Ooh.directory Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/ooh-directory/ 21 people recommended Ooh.directory in Hacker News comments, 2 had mixed feelings and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 12 months, in 11 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule. 11 of the 21 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you”. **Verdict:** Curated directory of personal blogs that people use to discover independent writing and the small web. Caveat: submissions get no feedback and the review process is opaque. Summary written by Claude from 31 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 29 of those comments still count. ## Why people recommend it - Helps find interesting blogs (4 comments in the sample): "This has already helped me find extremely useful writings on a niche topic of mine." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021540)) "used your site to find interesting looking blogs for inspiration" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021692)) "has thousands of blogs listed from all over the world" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45925041)) - Fun to browse and navigate (2 comments in the sample): "It's fun to click about and go down the rabbit hole" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016898)) "is a great list of blogs that is nice to navigate" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307306)) - Revives the small web (1 comment in the sample): "the internet got just a little bit more human again" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014959)) - Curation beats SEO and search (1 comment in the sample): "directories like this and search engines like marginalia are important resources" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015413)) ## What people warn about - Submissions get no response (3 comments in the sample): "it feels frustrating when I spend time making a bunch of submissions and I never hear anything back" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015999)) "it is frustrating to spend time putting together submissions and then hear absolutely nothing back" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016157)) "I've submitted entries but they never get added." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015103)) - Additions and rejections unexplained (3 comments in the sample): "You're looking at a list of hundreds of submissions and why they have been added or not added…" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015133)) "nobody can tell what gets added and what doesn't. Submissions go through an opaque review process" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660088)) "They do not explain why something is added or rejected." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015099)) ## Other blog directories people recommend - [Kagi Small Web](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kagi-small-web/): 35 recommend, 8 mixed, 29 criticize - [Wander small web explorer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wander/): 26 recommend, 2 mixed, 3 criticize - [Bubbles.town](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bubbles/): 12 recommend, 3 mixed, 4 criticize - [RSS.Social](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rss-social/): 11 recommend, 3 mixed, 5 criticize ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://ooh.directory/) ## The badge A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged. ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Ooh.directory", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ooh-directory/ (21 recommend, 2 mixed, 5 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 3 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.