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Some of the websites you come across when googling manuals are... less than reputable. My first suggestion after…",{"value":59,"source":60,"evidence":61},"Free, funded by AdSense ads; all features stay free","maker",[62],{"id":63,"by":11,"text":64},"26888896","1. We'll add some adsense ads. But all features will be always free. 3. I'll look. Thank you.",[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":69,"objections":93,"requests":122,"questions":144,"alternatives":164},[70,82],{"value":71,"source":48,"evidence":72},"Cleaner and less spammy than other manual sites",[73,74,78],{"id":51,"by":52,"text":53},{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"26884658","hedora","This is less spammy than most of these databases, but please remove the captcha on “download pdf”. Also, the first (and only) manual I tried gave a 404 after I solved the…",{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},"26888911","jfk13","And is overrun with spammy ads. Yuck.",{"value":83,"source":48,"evidence":84},"Useful for reviving old appliances and electronics",[85,89],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"26887133","adav","Is there anything more satisfying than reviving some random old appliance with a pdf service manual found on the internet?",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"26896463","shanecleveland","The best. With very little electronic I revived some vintage stereo equipment using the original circuit board schematic diagram. I had a lot of help from YouTube and online…",[94,101,105,112],{"value":95,"source":48,"evidence":96},"Search returns duplicates and the right result is buried",[97],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"26883541","michaelmior","Looks very cool! A couple things however that I noticed. There seem to be a lot of duplicates which clutter the search results. Also, the first thing I looked for was available,…",{"value":102,"source":48,"evidence":103},"PDF viewer is hard to read and cannot zoom",[104],{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},{"value":106,"source":48,"evidence":107},"Data appears outdated, missing newer models like OLED TVs",[108],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"26886229","de6u99er","Data seems to be quite old, since it does not include e.g. OLED TVs. https:\u002F\u002Fmanuzoid.com\u002Fbrand\u002FLG",{"value":113,"source":48,"evidence":114},"Legality of scraping and hosting copyrighted manuals is questioned",[115,119],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"26885517","system2","Well however he did, I do not see his responses after posting it here. Is it even legal to scrape all these manuals from other sites?",{"id":120,"by":117,"text":121},"26883992","Like any other comment, I will ask the same. How did you get 1 million manuals? Show HN is for small projects usually. 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And we'll be adding the ability to upload manuals soon.",{"value":141,"source":48,"evidence":142},"Remove captcha on PDF download",[143],{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},[145,157],{"value":146,"source":48,"evidence":147},"How was the library of manuals collected",[148,149,153],{"id":120,"by":117,"text":121},{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"26877626","austinjp","Your privacy policy mentions fixlib.com which appears to be up for sale. Curious: how did you get hold of all the manuals, and hope did you process them all?",{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"26883881","shadowfaxRodeo","Amazing, bookmarked. Where did you get all of them from, and is there a way of contributing manuals?",{"value":158,"source":48,"evidence":159},"How will the site make money",[160],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"26886324","bootcat","1) I had very similar idea, How are you planning to monetize it ? 2) 10 years back I made a similar site using manuals online.com, 3) did you look at react-pdf ?",[165,172,176],{"value":166,"source":48,"evidence":167},"ManualsBrain",[168],{"id":169,"by":170,"text":171},"26886556","armstrong","Hello, it looks nice but have a look https:\u002F\u002Fmanualsbrain.com\u002Fen\u002F it's bigger and grows",{"value":173,"source":48,"evidence":174},"manuals online",[175],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},{"value":177,"source":48,"evidence":178},"manualOne",[179],{"id":180,"by":181,"text":182},"26885898","weitzj","There was\u002Fis a German startup called “manualOne” which offered manuals as well, and I think the idea was to establish a connection between the customer and seller of devices…",{"comments":18,"answered":32,"key":184},[185,188,191],{"id":186,"text":187},"26888809","Hi We have been collecting this library for a long time. 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