Released a Service That Sorts Web Manga Sites by Update Day
There’s been a huge increase in web manga sites recently.
As a manga fan, I follow a bunch of them—but I’ve completely lost track of which site updates when.
There’s a site called Web Manga Antenna, but it doesn’t cover many sources, which makes it a bit underwhelming for me.
Scraping each site to track updates for individual series sounds like a never-ending maintenance nightmare. So I decided to simplify things and only track updates at the site level, then organize them by day of the week.
That led me to create this service:
Since it works on a per-site basis, the usability isn’t perfect.
Still, it’s a lot more convenient than bookmarking dozens of sites. You can now save links by weekday per site, so hopefully that makes browsing easier.
The data is managed in a spreadsheet, so I’d love to have others help keep it up to date!
Below are some extra notes for those curious.
I don’t usually use spreadsheets as databases, but for a small-scale project like this, it felt right.
As long as updates are limited to once per day, rate limits shouldn’t be an issue.
Of course, type safety is out the window—but I accepted that and just used fetch in Next.js to build it quickly.
Lately, I’ve been making a lot of small web services, and I feel like I’m settling into a really solid development pattern.
I’ll probably write another blog post soon to share what that looks like.