Feedle, a search engine for blogs and podcasts, unexpectedly reached #2 on Hacker News front page, driving massive traffic. The author addresses community feedback covering: a broken submit link (Tally form issue), plans for better content discovery using Apache Lucene, manual curation to fight SEO spam, upcoming multi-language support, dead link flagging, potential open-sourcing, monetization ideas (paid tiers, author tools), audience-building for bloggers, advanced search syntax, and a planned separate podcast index. A teaser mentions a future post on handling the HN traffic spike with zero downtime despite being a Java app.
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