> It starts to become clear that what I want my web discovery tool to do is less find individual pieces of good content but more find content from good creators

> It starts to become clear that what I want my web discovery tool to do is less find individual pieces of good content but more find content from good creators. Bingo. What's interesting about this is that while maintaining a list of all useful content on the web is probably intractable, maintaining a list of all useful content producers might be doable. You could have moderators for each niche, and as the list of producers for a given niche grows, it could split into sub-niches which would get their own moderators responsible for keeping track of quality content producers. Sort of like an awesome list for content producers. I'm certain this already exists in some form. The original web was build around curated content like this. But people aren't used to looking for content this way. EDIT: Saw dmoz.org mentioned below which sounds like exactly what I'm talking about. Apparently they're called web directories[0]. Sadly DMOZ is dead but appears to have a community fork called curlie[1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_directory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_directory [1]: https://curlie.org/ https://curlie.org/