--- title: "Feedle Reached the Front Page of Hacker News!" url: https://daily.dev/posts/feedle-reached-the-front-page-of-hacker-news--wrplska0k source_url: https://preslav.me/2024/03/25/feedle-on-the-hacker-news-front-page type: article source: "Preslav Rachev" published: 2026-05-31T07:49:14.491Z updated: 2026-05-31T09:11:21.265Z reading_time: 8 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Feedle Reached the Front Page of Hacker News! **[Preslav Rachev](https://daily.dev/sources/preslav-rachev)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot](https://daily.dev/posts/feedly-attributes-weeklong-slowdown-to-bug-not-its-ai-pivot-3m4bfpjz9) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [2025 was an excellent year for this blog](https://daily.dev/posts/2025-was-an-excellent-year-for-this-blog-0oe52loyp) · sean goedecke · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/feedle-reached-the-front-page-of-hacker-news--wrplska0k)