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There are many projects you can use to get your site on the IndieWeb, improve your IndieWeb support, or browse for inspiration for your own project; please note, some development ability and familiarity with command line tools will likely be required for you to use and improve these projects.

For simpler services you can use to get on the IndieWeb without using a command line, see:

• Getting Started

Most projects are open source (AKA free software, F/OSS, FLOSS or FOSS), if you’re looking for starting points in a particular programming language, see:

• Node.js | PHP | Python | Ruby | Go | .NET

Get On The IndieWeb

These projects are:

• IndieWeb friendly
• Actively in use by many
• Typically in use by their creators (embodying the use what you make principle)
• Can be installed on a website to get you on the IndieWeb
• Open source

In rough order of adoption and active use by the IndieWeb community:

Known

Known (formerly idno) is open source publishing software that supports a great degree of IndieWeb technologies and principles by default and is used by many IndieWeb for their primary site.

Notable examples:

• Ben Werdmüller (co-founder) on werd.io (eats what they cook)
• Erin Jo Richey (co-founder) on erinjo.is (eats what they cook)

See Known#IndieWeb_Examples for more!

Known has an active IndieWeb development community:

• https://chat.indieweb.org/known/

WordPress

WordPress is open source software you can use to create a website or blog. Many IndieWebCamp participants use WordPress on their primary site with a set of plugins developed by members of this community to provide IndieWeb functionality.

Notable IndieWeb community examples, all plug-in authors, all eat what they cook:

• Ryan Barrett on snarfed.org
•  Matthias Pfefferle on notiz.blog
• David Shanske on david.shanske.com

See WordPress Examples for more!

WordPress has an active IndieWeb development community:

• https://chat.indieweb.org/wordpress

micro.blog

micro.blog is a hosted microblogging service that lets you publish content on the web and interact with other community members who use the site in their custom platform.

micro.blog implements various IndieWeb features such as rel=me links, offering support for adding a personal domain to your site, and syndication features.

IndieWeb participants who use micro.blog for their main site include:

• Manton Reece
• Frank Meeuwsen
• Kimberly Hirsh

Many more community members syndicate their sites to micro.blog, too.

Jekyll

Jekyll is a blog-aware, static site generator.

IndieWebCamp participants who are using it on their primary self-identifying site:

• Ben Ward (2011,2012): benward.me
• Bret Comnes (2013): bret.io
• Pelle Wessman on voxpelli.com
• Eddie Hinkle on eddiehinkle.com
• Ted Tschopp on tedt.org
• Jacky Alciné on jacky.wtf
• Jeff Noh on jnoh.net
• ...

Drupal

Drupal is a popular open source content management system. It needs better documentation for how to install and set it up as an IndieWeb friendly personal site.

Notable examples:

• Dries (Drupal creator) uses Drupal on his own site "dri.es". (eats what they cook)
• Kristof De Jaeger (Drupal indieweb plugin creator) uses Drupal on his own site "realize.be" (eats what they cook)
• ...

Hugo

Hugo is a blog-aware, static site generator.

IndieWebCamp participants who are using it on their primary self-identifying site:

•   Jamie Tanna uses it on his site www.jvt.me
• Evgeny Kuznetsov uses it
• Ben Neil uses it
• ...

Statiq

Statiq Web is a static web site generation toolkit built with .NET suitable for most use cases. It's built on top of Statiq Framework so you can always extend or customize it beyond those base capabilities as well.

Connect With Services

The following projects are actively being used by both their creators (following the use what you make principle) and many others in the IndieWeb community as additions to or services to enhance their personal sites with connections to and interactions with other content sites.

Bridgy

Bridgy is a service that backfeeds replies to your POSSE copies to your site, and publishes POSSE copies to your silo profiles.

IndieWebCamp participants that are using it with their primary site:

• Ryan Barrett (author) on https://snarfed.org/ (eats what they cook)
• Tantek Çelik on http://tantek.com/ to receive backfeed Webmentions, and by Falcon (also on tantek.com) to POSSE photos, videos, RSVPs, issues to silos.
•   Jamie Tanna uses it on https://www.jvt.me for Twitter backfeed and publish, and Meetup publish
• many others...
  • see Bridgy#IndieWeb_Examples.

Webmention.io

webmention.io is an open-source project written in Ruby and a hosted service for receiving webmentions and pingbacks on behalf of your IndieWeb site.

IndieWebCamp participants who are using it on their own site:

• Aaron Parecki - author (eats what they cook)
• Bret Comnes
• Tantek Çelik
• fluffy

Get Inspired

These projects are:

• IndieWeb friendly
• Actively in use only by one or a few
• Their creator(s) are using what they make
• Sometimes can be installed on a website to get you on the IndieWeb.
• At least partially open source

The following projects are actively being used at a minimum by their creators for their own personal sites (using what they make) and have excellent examples of IndieWeb sites both in design, and IndieWeb feature support.

These projects may not yet be easily installable by someone other than the creator(s).

These projects often provide