https://letsblock.it has been on a slow but steady growth trajectory since it's January ShowHN[1]. The public instance served 290 customized lists this week, and operations / project upkeep are a pretty light time commitment.
It's a companion project to uBlockOrigin, working towards improving the internet's signal/noise ratio by filtering out low-value content and nags. While cosmetic filtering is very powerful, its learning curve is steep, so the project provides customizable templates maintained by the community.
I'll be giving a talk about the project, titled "Designing an Open-Source project for low maintenance" this Thursday at Ory Summit[2] and will share the recording on HN once it's public. You can still watch the conference's live-stream for free!
After that, I'll need to update the website's copy and simplify some UX, to prepare for another visibility push later this year.
I'm interested to understand why you find this provocative.
My ambition is to build a dependable service that will be up for several years to come. For that to happen, I need to limit myself to a scope I am comfortable maintaining in the long run, instead of burning out under scope creep.
Until the maintainer team grows, I would be on the hook for updates and fixes, and I refuse to create an account on any of that company's sites.
FYI, I have such a call to maintainer [1] for a "Twitter cleanup" template similar to the "Google search cleanup" one [2]. There is definitely a need, but it seems over my current carrying capacity.
For Meta's properties, I would wait for the maintainer to have a track record of contributions before being comfortable opening that door.
It's a companion project to uBlockOrigin, working towards improving the internet's signal/noise ratio by filtering out low-value content and nags. While cosmetic filtering is very powerful, its learning curve is steep, so the project provides customizable templates maintained by the community.
I'll be giving a talk about the project, titled "Designing an Open-Source project for low maintenance" this Thursday at Ory Summit[2] and will share the recording on HN once it's public. You can still watch the conference's live-stream for free!
After that, I'll need to update the website's copy and simplify some UX, to prepare for another visibility push later this year.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30057442
[2]: https://ory-events.vercel.app/