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HUMANS — Discover the web homes of the people who build the internet
A curated gallery featuring the world's best personal websites. The list consists of projects built with various technologies and services: React, Angular, Vue, WP and even Wix or About.me sites. Find inspiration to build your perfect personal homepage.
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@kobyof Last time I had a personal website with my name in the domain was like 7 years ago. Since, I stopped paying godaddy, some scammer got the domain and is dropshipping from it (good luck with that), and I'm using twitter as my go-to place to send people that want information about me and my business.
Why do you think I should bother with a personal domain and design and stuff?
@davidleib4 I was actually asking myself the same thing :)
I guess when you have your own space online you can control the design and content and it's forever yours (as long as you pay godaddy... right?)
With other platforms, they can use your data, you are restricted to their structure and their design. For example, with Twitter you have just so much space to put your bio and links. Whoever gets to your profile page may need to scroll quite a bit to get to the interesting parts (even if you pin something).
Moreover, when you have your own space I guess you can showcase your design abilities, which is really important for those of us who code or design stuff online.
As platforms get better, and you can customize them quite a bit, it gets tougher to decide. It's still an open question for me, but I think I'm going to rebuild my personal webpage quite soon. I got a lot of inspiration building this project, and I have a few ideas of interesting stuff I want to make.
@kobyof I built myself website on about.me platforma 5 years ago. Thinking about changing now. Will look for advice.
What a great idea for a project, I love exploring people's personal sites, they have so much more personality than social media profiles. And thank you for including mine, it was a nice surprise coming across it while exploring the site! 😄
@jamesdaly90 I agree that personal sites hold the potential for much more versatility and creativeness than any social profile. While exploring different sites, I encountered some really jaw dropping examples of personal creativity. Thank you for making them!
Nice idea 🙂 The “Visit Site” button isn’t working on any of the sites for me though (Chrome on iOS).
This is an interesting one. @jacob I'm curious how you decided which filters to offer (colors, gender... beards?), and whether you plan to add more filters, categories or a rating system.
@corinna_keefe Thanks for the feedback. For filters, colors seemed like a natural fit, as it makes sense to cluster sites based on common design properties. You can actually filter by any tag on the system, so if you see a featured website that you like and click on any tag (say, a technology property like react or vue, or a personal property like 'developer' or 'designer' or 'hairdresser' or whatnot, you can filter by that. The beard thing was actually an internal joke, and may be discontinued soon.
Many more features are coming soon. So we have a semi-rating system right now with the like button, but it's not backed with an authentication system so it's only partially effective. We are adding user authentication, so you'll have more from that.
We added a featured site of the day to bake some sort of gamification inside.
Much more stuff on the way. Follow @HumansFyi on twitter for updates or check back soon.
It was quite a lengthy process. My main sources of inspiration were awards sites, mainly awwwards, cssdesignawards and FWA, but I also searched quite a lot on Dribbble and Behnace, which are design-oriented websites, design magazines, Twitter accounts of webdesigners and others. I also checked to see if makers on this site have personal websites, and I featured some of them.
My criteria wasn't especially to include only the best looking personal websites, but to have a variety of styles, services and technologies to see what's actually there and what are people currently doing to design their personal homes on the web.
Just at a time when I'm just starting to scout for inspiration for a personal website 😎 Kudos and thank you 👊
Awesome idea and execution..wanted to ask few things
1)I see many profiles and as you explained how do you get the profiles ...do you add a crawler to get the profiles or manually find and add them
2)There is on demand loading of profiles on reaching bottom is it intended?
3)What tech stack you used to build this.
nice collection bookmarking it!!
@rajatrao777
Hey, sorry for the late response. I have been swamped with responses in the last few days.
1 - After finding the profiles manually (or some profiles are submitted), there is a manual review for each website + automatic crawling of the profile site to get meta information like technology used, social network stuff and more.
2 - Of course, it's endless scrolling by design
3 - The production version is currently on vanilla js with mongodb on the background. There is work in progress to shift to react.
Thanks for the feedback! Many new features launching soon, so check back to see if you like it.
Really loved the site! I wish if there was a comment section so people could discuss about what they like or dislike about the site .
I like the idea. Things that I would add:
- login feature / personal account to keep things that I like (I'm not sure about where do things I upvote are saved right now)
- commenting
- user photos
@ianlarsen17 Thanks for the feedback.
- Commenting is coming. Already got it up on the dev version. Should be up soon.
- Authentication - I'm kind of hesitating. Currently users' upvotes are saved on Local Storage. I don't want to make things too complicated.
- I actually do pull user photos from social media accounts via API. You can see them when you click on the website screenshot. Maybe I'll incorporate them more tightly in the future. I don't want to make the UI too dense.
This can also double as a search engine for web designers or developers. When you see what they are doing for themselves, it's a great way to discover someone who can help you with your project.
@malcolmserge That's exactly what I was thinking when making it! I'm thinking about making some functionality to approach the site owner to hire him or her. What do you think?
@kobyof sent this to me over the weekend so I had some time to fiddle around with it. Really nice job of getting together a lot of inspiring websites. I submitted mine to be featured too. Still waiting to see it live.
I am teaching a class on Personal Branding at the Jack Welch College of Business and Technology at Sacred Heart Univ. Would love to have you present when we cover websites.
@ameliagruber Just re-answering here, as I commented on this elsewhere.
My main origins for sourcing site ideas were:
Award sites - mainly awwwards, cssdesignawards and FWA.
Design social networks - sites like Behance & Dribbble
Design magazines like Smashing Magazine.
Social media accounts (mainly Twitter) of web designers
Product Hunt - to check which sites are listed on the profiles of prolific makers and hunters
My personal network of people telling me about cool personal sites they stumbled upon
Since launching, I received dozens of site submissions online. I'll do my best to review them all (contact me if you want to help), and get them up to the site as soon as I can.
I also mentioned before that my criteria for acceptance isn't necessarily to have only the best looking personal websites, but to include a variety of styles, services and technologies to see what's actually there and what are people currently doing to design their personal homes on the web.
Thank you all for taking the time to submit sites, review, upvote and get inspiration.
@samrotenberg I can't say for sure. If it does get indexed it will probably be a few days as I got more than a 100 submissions in the last 24 hours and I review each and every one to make sure it's not spam and that it meets some certain quality level. Doing my best to include everyone as fast as I can.
@aliciaunderwood First, thanks for submitting. This is great!
I don't have a fixed methodology yet for accepting/rejecting submissions as this is all fairly new. I got a few dozen submissions so far, so I'll probably accept any reasonable submission.
The idea in the first place was to reflect the "state of personal websites" and not necessarily to feature just the jaw-dropping designs. Of course, I'm trying to prevent spammy submissions as much as I can. Hopefully that's not the case here.
btw - I'm currently reviewing all the submissions myself. If anyone wants to participate, review websites, add websites or anything else you can think of - you are all more than welcome. Drop me a msg here, or on twitter and I'll get back to you.
@weiweihsu_ omg, of course we are not. And part of the reason I did filtering for gender in HUMANS was to emphasize the work of non-male makers. It's work in progress so we are adding more and more every day. Hopefully you'll see the gender ration improve soon.
@shun_yamada Thank you! You'll get notified once your submission is up on the site.
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