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Hey HN, we're Ian and Nik and we're a bit obsessed with data. Specifically, being able to own your own data and make it useful.

We're rethinking how we interact with and manage all the data in our lives. Data is all over the place now (computer, mobile, multiple cloud providers...) and it's more than a bit unwieldy. Not only is it unwieldy, you can also lose access to your data at the drop of a hat due to an outage, a policy change, or a bug. This doesn't sit well with us.

Of course, to really tackle this problem will be the work of years, so we're starting with something more manageable. We've created a tool to aggregate all your browser history and make it full-text searchable. If you've read something online, you should be able to find it again—quickly.

There's plenty of prior art in the search-your-own-history space, so why might you care? When we tried to find an existing product to fit our needs we were unable to find something that checks all of these boxes:

- All history, from all browsers.

- Fast. It should feel more like autocomplete than like web search.

- Completely local. No need to trust someone's server.

- No user input required. I.e. no need to bookmark. Store everything.

- No limits. Don't delete my history unless I say so (browsers will delete your history after a few months, 4 months for Chrome).

I'm sure we've missed a few though. How do you keep track of everything you've read online? Any workflows or killer hacks you've discovered?

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lom ( user?id=lom ) 20 minutes ago ( item?id=) [–] ( javascript:void(0) )

Seems like a cool project! I use my browsing history a lot to find certain things again and it’s always frustrated me that it’s slow and horrible at finding what I need.

But please release a linux version ASAP :)

I’m also not sure if I like that is’s always running in the background, not because of privacy but because it just seems a bit unnecessary - something that I use maybe a few times in a week and that’s nothing more than a search engine shouldn’t be using system resources all the time

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iansinnott ( user?id=iansinnott ) 17 minutes ago ( item?id=) [–] ( javascript:void(0) )

Thanks for the feedback. Shouldn't be a big lift to add linux support (it's electron after all). We just wanted to get this out the door asap and hopefully receive some community pressure to add a linux build step

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