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How HN took it
1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Idea: 1 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Offline access to archived docs, such as MDN, useful on planes.
From 1 comment
Everyone is different. Sometimes even just saving someone that inconvenience and time and stress in that edge case where like you have this bookmark that you know that you had or…
graderjs on HN
Bookmark-mode archiving is a useful approach for finding saved pages.
From 2 comments
Everyone is different. Sometimes even just saving someone that inconvenience and time and stress in that edge case where like you have this bookmark that you know that you had or…
graderjs on HNDesktop file search sucks. But I think you mean you don't have trouble finding pages you've visited before just using a search engine. That's good but that's not everyone's…
graderjs on HN
Objections
Depends on Chrome; no support for mobile browsing without workarounds.
From 1 comment
Why build it with an intimate dependency on Chrome, and not as a general HTTP/HTTPS proxy? Not that it doesn't look neat, sure. But I do a lot of browsing from my phone, and I've…
throwanem on HN
Limited practical need; SQL and title search or Google often suffice.
From 2 comments
Interesting idea however I can't see many practical uses for this ... how often do you really need to search through the text of something you browsed some time ago and would it…
belkarx on HNtbh, it's easier to find stuff on Google than in my local storage.
DoryMinh on HN
No hard guarantee it keeps working across Chrome updates.
From 1 comment
Replying to an (inexplicably, as it was high quality) deleted comment: > I thought the same thing 10 years ago. I have(had?) many thousands of bookmarks collected over 10 years.…
graderjs on HN
Requests
Support for mobile browser archiving without Chrome-specific dependency.
From 2 comments
Why build it with an intimate dependency on Chrome, and not as a general HTTP/HTTPS proxy? Not that it doesn't look neat, sure. But I do a lot of browsing from my phone, and I've…
throwanem on HNWell yeah, that's the thing about a proxy - ~every HTTP/HTTPS user agent supports them, and neither you nor your users need to mess around with Chrome-specific debugging stuff.…
throwanem on HN
Proxy-based archiving as an alternative to Chrome dependency.
From 1 comment
Well yeah, that's the thing about a proxy - ~every HTTP/HTTPS user agent supports them, and neither you nor your users need to mess around with Chrome-specific debugging stuff.…
throwanem on HN
Questions
Why build on Chrome rather than a general HTTP/HTTPS proxy?
From 1 comment
Why build it with an intimate dependency on Chrome, and not as a general HTTP/HTTPS proxy? Not that it doesn't look neat, sure. But I do a lot of browsing from my phone, and I've…
throwanem on HN
Why archive locally instead of using the Wayback Machine?
From 1 comment
Interesting idea however I can't see many practical uses for this ... how often do you really need to search through the text of something you browsed some time ago and would it…
belkarx on HN
Alternatives named
ArchiveBox
From 1 comment
Related: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27842740
harabat on HN
Google Desktop Search and Google-In-A-Box
From 2 comments
Looks fun reminds me of Google Desktop search from way back in the day - you know back in the days of google also selling a search appliance for enterprise data centers.
mooreed on HNNo, they didn't. Back in the day Google sold 'Google-In-A-Box' which was a rack mounted hardware device that you installed into your company's server rack (either on-prem or in a…
Jaruzel on HN
Browser Parrot
From 1 comment
Similar project I came across some time ago: Browser Parrot https://www.browserparrot.com/
d4rkp4ttern on HN
personal-search-engine
From 1 comment
I made something similar, with and/or/not full text searching https://github.com/beenotung/personal-search-engine
aabbcc1241 on HN
Hamsterbase
From 1 comment
I made something similar too https://github.com/hamsterbase/hamsterbase Render and upload mhtml(chrome)、webarchive(safari) website. full text searching is WIP
hamsterbase on HN