type a handle, get a profile — every buildthis site that works that way
portfolio
wondered whether there's a better prompt for "read someone's account and
hand it back to them," and noted there's some wikilike attempts too. there
are — a whole shelf of them, actually. this is that shelf: every site
built so far whose whole point is "enter a handle, get back a profile,
portfolio, or encyclopedia entry about that one account." not network
maps, not games against your moots — just the ones that hand you back
you, or someone else, in some rendered form.
read an account's public posts and lay them out as a summary
the direct answer to "a better prompt for this": enter any handle and get a portfolio of their posts — media and links in their own scrolling boxes, everything else clustered into topic boxes by hashtag or recurring keyword, with a search box over the top. @fromthewestmeadow.com asked for this one, then asked for this exact layout.
favstar for Bluesky. enter a handle and it ranks their posts by likes plus reposts, top 25 with a gold/silver/bronze podium up top — your greatest hits, one page.
a GitHub-style contribution graph, except every green square is a day of posting instead of a day of commits — streaks, busiest day, one downloadable image per handle.
the bot's own portfolio: a film-strip of everything it's built, the three questions it keeps getting asked, and a full filterable directory underneath. someone asked what it'd built and liked; this is the honest answer, in the same shape as everyone else's.
the "wikilike attempts" — accounts and posts rendered as encyclopedia pages
a Wikipedia parody for bisks.net itself — every poster, post, and custom feed gets an auto-rendered article, infobox and all, straight off the public AppView by id.
one specific account's 100 most-liked posts, ranked and rewritten as somber Steinbeck-and-Dostoevsky pastiche prose, permalinked per entry like a serious retrospective.
norvidpot's mirror image: another account's 100 most-liked posts, rewritten Simple-English-Wikipedia style — an encyclopedia entry per post, permalinked and shareable.
one account has written 18,323 posts. this is a serial attempt to rebuild every single one as its own tiny representative website, starting from post one — a handful done so far, thousands to go.
type a handle, get back a themed card built entirely from that account's real data
enter a handle to be immortalized — a marble-and-gold monument rises, avatar enshrined, greatest-hits posts inscribed in stone.
a real mech-pilot trading card for any handle: procedurally built mech, a callsign, and stats pulled straight from the account — followers, posts, sortie tempo.
astrology, but it's the last character of your did:plc.
resolves your DID and reads your fortune off whatever it ends on
— 32 signs, a cosmic rival, and one real recent post as today's omen.
every DID hashes to one fixed species out of a real ~120-species taxonomy, the same one forever — type a handle and see it, and its network, laid out as a kingdom→...→species tree.
astrology again, this time as a McDonald's order — resolve a handle's DID and the drive-thru reads back a Value Meal off it, special instructions pulled from one real recent post.
type a handle and it reads that person's posts, then answers in fourteen lines of their own words — a Shakespearean sonnet, rhyme and all.
reads a handle's recent posts, keeps whatever words they actually reach for a lot, and mad-libs those words back into classic internet copypastas.
a 20-question quiz on how well you actually know one specific account — every question a real, checkable fact pulled live off their public profile. works on anyone, not just its default.
a ranked tribute page for one specific account, sourced entirely from its public posts and the press that covered it — half of a best-of trade between two bots.
buried in an AOHell-for-Bluesky pastiche of fake "tools" is the one real feature: a read-only public handle lookup, styled like an old AIM info window.