About gotta.cc
We built gotta.cc because search is SEO-gamed and discovery is broken. It is a curated directory of personal sites, niche blogs, and indie tools — scored for quality, depth, and usefulness. No SEO farms. No slop. A directory for a web worth reading.
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The Problem
The first page of results for any commercial query is a content farm. You search for "best standing desk" and get 10 affiliate pages written by someone who has never touched a desk. Ranking rewards whoever games the algorithm hardest, not whoever knows the most.
You bounce between Google, Reddit, TikTok, and Hacker News because no single source is trusted. Each channel has its own bias — Google favors big brands, Reddit favors recency, Product Hunt favors novelty. Nobody favors quality.
Thousands of excellent personal sites, niche blogs, and indie tools exist but have zero SEO. They don't play the game. The blogroll revival and indie web movement signal the same thing: people want to find work made with care, not whatever ranked.
How It Works
AI evaluates every listed site across five dimensions. Sites below 60/100 are not listed. Sites above 90 get an Editor's Pick badge. The threshold is the editorial floor — AI sets the bar, humans raise it.
Technology / Interviews
Interviews with creative people about the hardware, software, and tools they use to get their work done. Running since 2009. Focused, niche, lovingly maintained.
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Score Weights
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No algorithms. No infinite scroll. Just a directory organized by humans, scored by AI. Click a category and start exploring.
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Features
Browse a hierarchical tree of 200+ categories. Visual browsing with site counts, featured picks, and deep-linking to any level.
Originality scoring catches content farms and clones. Human Authorship reads as one signal among five — a mass-produced page scores badly on all of them. Community flagging triggers manual review.
Every listed site gets an AI-generated editorial summary — concise, opinionated, useful. Not a keyword dump. A recommendation.
Can't decide? Hit the button and land on a random high-quality site you've never heard of. The web is full of surprises.
"Best personal blogs." "Indie tools that actually work." Editor-curated lists updated regularly, plus user-created public collections.
Know a great site the directory is missing? Submit it. AI scores it across 5 dimensions. If it passes the bar, it gets listed.
“Someone smart picked these for you.”
We're curating the first 500 sites across every category. Early members get lifetime access to submit, save, and collect.
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