Kicks Condor

kickscondor.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2017

Kicks Condor runs a personal site about the indie web, link directories, and small web tools such as HrefHunt.

What HN saysCommenters praise the site's 90s-style design and nostalgic feel, and link it as an example of the old, personal web.
24HN people shared it
18linked it in comments
16stories submitted
493story points
2 years agolast shared
2017people per year2026

Most-shared posts

  1. 1
    Kicks Condor
    13 people · 128 points · first shared 2019 · 30 comments on HN
  2. 2
    HrefHunt
    5 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
  3. 3
    Satya nadella &
    3 people · first shared 2018
  4. 4
    On Dat
    2 people · 250 points · first shared 2019 · 68 comments on HN
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    A Kindergartener’s Best Computer Is About to Die
    1 people · 58 points · first shared 2018 · 94 comments on HN
  7. 7
    Satya Nadella Reads/Games Hacker News (2018)
    1 people · 45 points · first shared 2024 · 10 comments on HN
  8. 8
    Static: the Gathering
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
  9. 9
    Let Me Link to You
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
  10. 10
    Nadia Eghbal, Re: Writing Hypertext
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
  11. 11
    The Key to Shaders... Varies
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
  12. 12
    Twilight Sparkle’s Voice Compromised
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
  13. 13
    Things We Left in the Old Web
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
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    Things We Left in the Old Web
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
  15. 15
    Special.fish
    1 people · first shared 2020

What HN people wrote when they linked it

h0p3 · 2021-04-08
Well, hello there! That's extremely high praise. Thank you. You're making your way into the ℍ𝕪𝕡𝕖𝕣𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱 too. =) It's a pleasure to speak with you. Conversation is a sacrament (and an art well beyond me). I hope to capture what I love about the web: people who make life worth living. For those who haven't already seen them (these people are rockstars), I'm also a huge fan of my beloved: https://wiki.waifu.haus/, https://sphygm.us/, and https://kickscondor.com/ - these treasures inspire me quite a bit.
flanbiscuit · 2021-03-11
Hi Kickscondor, I've seen you on HN before. Love your aesthetic! I urge everyone to check out Kickscondor's website for some 90's era web design nostalgia https://www.kickscondor.com/
mstade · 2019-12-16
Oh wow, this looks just like something I’ve been meaning to build for a while now, but couldn’t find the time. Definitely taking this for a spin. Your intro video is great btw, and I also love your own site, the style is just pure love![0][1] [0]: for anyone interested in looking its at https://www.kickscondor.com/ [1]: I am not in any way shape or form affiliated with the author, just very impressed!
kickscondor · 2019-10-31
I keep a modern directory to the 'old' Internet at http://href.cool. I also track what's happening on blogs and wikis at http://www.kickscondor.com. There is a whole lot of great stuff going on, regardless of how popular it is. (I kind of think it's great that it's not.)
kixiQu · 2022-02-24
In case anyone wants to sniff around for some, there's some left in personal sites, often with an explicitly nostalgic vibe: https://yesterweb.org/webring/members.html https://www.kickscondor.com <- anything in the kicksverse http://tetrageddon.com/ <-- nathalie lawhead has some wild net art projects
mschrage · 2021-06-23
kicks has such a fun & distinctive visual style. Came to comment that the design reminded me of https://www.kickscondor.com/ and now I understand why!
unicornporn · 2020-02-02
So happy to see it on the first page of HN. This has been my favorite personal website/weblog/web directory for over a year and I'm always stoked when my feed reader pings about an update. Do not miss his HrefHunts[1], the interview with the Things Magazine[2] creator or his P2P Muxtape alternative[3]. I love this answer: > I don’t necessarily think there needs to be a new future for blogging though. The heyday has passed, that’s all. Most forms of creative expression in most mediums still exist somewhere for someone. They just have to adapt to a quieter world. [1] https://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/ [2] https://www.kickscondor.com/things/ [3] https://www.kickscondor.com/duxtape/
zeroego · 2020-01-09
https://www.kickscondor.com/ Can't believe no one has posted this yet.
justusthane · 2019-10-03
https://www.kickscondor.com is really bizarre. Animated backgrounds, infinite scrolling, elements that are only partially visible until you mouseover them, and uses zooming interface for opening individual posts. Feels like a bastard child of GeoCities and modern web.
belter · 2025-03-20
It seems the Microsoft influencer team [1] is again all over this thread. They must have some alerts... Reminder LibreOffice for most things is better than Office - Feature Comparison: LibreOffice - Microsoft Office: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_LibreOffice_-_… [1] "In fact, this morning, I was reading a news article in Hacker News, which is a community where we have been working hard to make sure that Azure is growing in popularity and I was pleasantly surprised to see that we have made a lot of progress in some sense that at least basically said that we are neck to neck with Amazon when it comes to even lead developers as represented in that community..." [1] https://www.kickscondor.com/satya-nadella-'reads''games…
benterix · 2024-07-22
> Glad this got some traction Yes, we know.[0] [0] https://www.kickscondor.com/satya-nadella-'reads''games…
glitchyowl · 2021-06-24
yeah it's read-only for the moment, ways to remix posts and comment on posts are coming soon! you can get a (loose) feel of how conversing will work by checking out this prototype by kicks: https://www.kickscondor.com/HT2020/ if you have any ideas for how social could work well on the site for you, pls let us know! hello [at] multiverse [dot] plus
sieste · 2021-01-20
https://www.kickscondor.com/slaptrash/ "Yes! It is without meaning and function! We-eee-eee-eee!!"
maxwelljoslyn · 2020-06-09
Take heart, nthnclrk. That side of the Web is not dead. There are loads of people out there running wacky personal websites on every subject you can imagine. Mine[1], for instance, holds poetry, Chinese translations, a videogame, and an open call for Star Wars fan art. If you want the real motherlode, go read Kicks Condor's "Href Hunt." [2] That drongo collects and catalogs people's personal websites, so you've got a whole evening of digital feasting ahead of you. [1] https://www.maxwelljoslyn.com [2] https://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/
cookingoils · 2020-06-06
Thanks for the feedback. This is something I've been thinking about a bit since launching it. I don't think SF necessarily does anything new or hooks users and I'm okay with that. I actually intended the site be more focused around the lists, but people really seem to enjoy logging their day-to-day lives. Personally, I like reading these automatic thoughts from strangers. Many people talk about quarantine routines, life goals, and ongoing projects. It's cool to see all this overlap in how people are thinking right now. So again, nothing new here, just a slightly different approach to a community website. I totally understand your hesitance on registering an account. There are so many ways of blogging/journaling on the web already. I actually think it's a good site to browse without ever needing an account. I'm looking at added RSS soon so you won't even need to really visit and can use something like Fraidycat to check in. Also, SF was mentioned on Kicks Condor recently [1]. I like how they talked about the site... "but it hadn’t even occurred to me to make a social network that is just a directory". I hadn't really thought of SF as just a directory either, but I like the idea that its only purpose is to be a directory of people doing DIY stuff on the web. [1] https://www.kickscondor.com/special.fish/

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