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In that spirit, search.marginalia.nu makes me about $70/month.

Hardware investment is about $4-5k, plus a few hundred hours of development time.

It was never intended as a means of getting rich though, so I am very grateful for the support.



I just visited your website, and had fun in the "small internet" sense. Thanks :)

I was very surprised your pages had a .gmi extension but were actually normal html. Then I figured your "memex" engine probably automatically translates gemini content to html and doesn't bother changing the extension (which in retrospect is more of a feature than a bug). Very nice.

I noticed your search engine is not available on gemini. Any plans for that? The spirit of the search engine is a perfect fit for the gemini ecosystem!


Yeah, the memex straddles both protocols, and the urls are the same save for the protocol. It's essentially a single user wiki based on git and gemtext.

The search engine is available on Gemini, just not at that address. Try gemini://marginalia.nu/search


Thank you!

Maybe put a link to this search url somewhere on the main page, specifically for gemini visitors?

There's no indication at all that this url exists when browsing your pages.


I think I used to have it on the front page, must have fallen off. That, or I removed it because it would confuse HTTP visitors.

I'm planning a bit of a navigation overhaul soon. Right now it's very hard to find all the various projects I'm running anywhere other than at https://www.marginalia.nu/


Cool! I tried a search for something I’m currently interested in and the result was surprisingly better than Google! Love it!


https://search.marginalia.nu/ looks cool! Thank you for maintaining it!


I just tried a search and indeed I found a bunch of serendipitously interesting stuff!

Well done, hope it makes you more some day.




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