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Ask HN: What 'good' is being created on the internet these days?

11 points by biastoact ↗ HN
After reading the 'Wikipedia has cancer' op-ed from earlier this month I was remembering back to the earlier days of the Internet when upstart Internet projects seemed to be trying to take on every major source of power. These projects were largely 'good' and altruistic, looking foremost to change the world and often didn't include a clear business model.

Examples: Craigslist (21 years old) Wikipedia (16 years old) FireFox (15 years old) OpenOffice (14 years old) OpenStreetMap (13 years old) DuckDuckGo (7 years old) etc

Obviously, there has been tremendous successes with things like Andriod (10 years old), Raspberry Pi (5 years old), and Bitcoin (6 years old). But what's new? What's your favorite new upstart project? Or are all the brilliant minds being lured away by the page views, app downloads, and venture capital cycle?

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Mz
Well, I blog to try to put out good info. It isn't exactly setting the world on fire though.

MAYBE SOMEDAY!

danieka
I'm kind of excited about SOLID, while it may not be exactly what you are looking for I'm hoping it will pave the way for the next generation of decentralized social networks where users own their own data.

>Solid (derived from "social linked data") is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized Web applications based on Linked Data principles. Solid is modular and extensible. It relies as much as possible on existing W3C standards and protocols.

https://github.com/solid/solid

remx
> But what's new? What's your favorite new upstart project?

A few:

- https://hypothes.is

- https://genius.com

- https://www.ethereum.org

- https://thegrid.io

- https://neocities.org

- https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs

biastoact
Thanks for sharing. I really liked the idea behind https://hypothes.is in particular, but I haven't found any site that really is enhanced by it. With the right user base though it could be awesome.
remx
Yeah Hypothesis is a bit nerdy. This is why Genius exists, and if rap/hip-hop is not your thing, Hypothesis can be used for any niche annotation.
kyledrake
Hi, thanks for including Neocities on the list!

Just finished a cli this week, haven't announced it yet: gem install neocities