[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":440},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-6508787":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":48,"post_text":49,"what":50,"said":78,"maker_in_thread":218,"shape":226,"grid":230,"attempts":401,"same_week":402,"maker_shows":47,"maker_hidden":432,"reader_version":433,"card":434},"6508787","Mummify","Preserve web content, fight link rot","title","Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mummify.it","mummify.it","zek",1381159360,2013,90,66,263,1739,16,"notable","infrastructure","web archiving","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"web archive","link rot","web page archiving","wayback alternative","mixed",-0.272,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},6,17,2,20,45,{"idea":37,"design":40,"pricing":42,"execution":45,"privacy":46},{"positive":38,"critical":39},4,5,{"positive":33,"critical":41},3,{"positive":43,"critical":44},0,7,{"positive":43,"critical":38},{"positive":43,"critical":47},1,[41,47,47,41,47,43,47,47,43,47,41,41,43,47,43,47,47,47,41,39,43,47,43,39,39,47,47,43,41,39,41,41,41,47,47,43,43,47,39,41],null,{"problem":51,"audience":49,"pricing":63,"motivation":49,"time_to_build":49,"stack":74,"openness":75,"stage":76,"team_size":77},{"value":52,"source":53,"evidence":54},"Links to web pages break when content disappears or moves","commenter",[55,59],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},"6509132","nine_k","The approach is nice, the problem being solved is real. Hopefully paying customers will flock in. The question: is mummify.it itself going to go under some day? So I'll wait for…",{"id":60,"by":61,"text":62},"6508856","jboynyc","Interesting in light of this discussion: https:\u002F\u002Fnews.ycombinator.com\u002Fitem?id=6504331 But to trust that something like this to make a permanent copy of stuff I'm linking to, I'd…",{"value":64,"source":53,"evidence":65},"Paid plans up to $15\u002Fmonth with 50 mummies per month at the top plan",[66,70],{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},"6509177","arb99","Weird pricing plan. At even the most expensive plan (of 15$\u002Fmo) only 50 'mummies' a month. Seems like an arbitrarily low number",{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"6509355","AznHisoka","50 mummies per month for the highest plan is way way way too low. It should 10,000 or even 50,000. Think about it this way: the people who are willing to pay you for this type of…",[],"paid","launched","unknown",{"praise":79,"objections":99,"requests":140,"questions":170,"alternatives":189},[80,91],{"value":81,"source":53,"evidence":82},"Good branding and name, clean site design",[83,87],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"6509006","contextual","This is an example of how great branding can help explain a product. Love the name, love the look, the copy is clever... but I don't like the low number of mummifications you get…",{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"6510845","bjackman","Just a thought: the \"Link Rot\" link should really be a Mummified link. I know Wikipedia isn't disappearing any time soon, but it just seemed silly to me not to \"realise\" the use…",{"value":92,"source":53,"evidence":93},"Real problem worth solving",[94,95],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"6511506","newrenowhore","Really like this, nice work. Is there a way to automatically mummify every link on an entire website or directory? Your method\u002Fservice could be an interesting, easy to use way to…",[100,113,118,129],{"value":101,"source":53,"evidence":102},"Mummy quota per plan is too low for the price",[103,104,105,109],{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"6509062","gabemart","Most of the time, one will not know which pages one links to will disappear in the future. This service therefore only seems really useful if you use it with every link you make.…",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"6510275","lingben","I use evernote premium ($45\u002Fyear) which is much cheaper and includes a tonne of extra features. Compare this to the pricing plan of mummify at $15\u002Fmonth pricing or $180\u002Fyear. for…",{"value":114,"source":53,"evidence":115},"Trust and longevity concerns; single point of failure",[116,117],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"id":60,"by":61,"text":62},{"value":119,"source":53,"evidence":120},"Requires JavaScript; blank page with NoScript",[121,125],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"6509210","tombrossman","FYI, for those of us with Firefox's NoScript extension your site is completely broken. Nothing loads, it is just a blank page with a list of scripts you intend to run. I wasn't…",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"6509928","pasbesoin","The OP depends upon Javascript for any and all content delivery\u002Frendition. Given the topic at hand, I find this more than a bit ironic. I gather from the comments that this is…",{"value":130,"source":53,"evidence":131},"Copyright and DMCA takedown risk",[132,136],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"6509321","lesinski","How is Mummify going to get around the copyright implications of ripping off the now removed piece of content which they don't own? Also wondering: what happens if the publisher…",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"6508894","junto","One point to note is that a DMCA takedown targeted at Mummify.it will remove the content just as it would from the nytimes.com. If I manually save that content to disk then any…",[141,152,160,166],{"value":142,"source":53,"evidence":143},"Export in standard WARC format",[144,148],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"6509604","donpdonp","Its worth mentioning the http:\u002F\u002Farchiveteam.org\u002F which does a lot of important web archival work. They use the Web ARChive format (WARC…",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"6510105","acdha","Just to second what donpdonp said (https:\u002F\u002Fnews.ycombinator.com\u002Fitem?id=6509604), I think a service like this needs to offer a standard format WARC…",{"value":153,"source":53,"evidence":154},"Self-hosted or open-source version",[155,156],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"6511057","ChuckMcM","This is pretty cool, I'd be happy with a service that mummified it to storage I control, since I've had pages that I've pointed to at archive.org vanish after the current…",{"value":161,"source":53,"evidence":162},"Browser plugins",[163],{"id":164,"by":85,"text":165},"6509111","Not every page one visits is worth storing. The whole point is to filter out (and save) the good from the rest. An aside: Mummify needs browser plugins for all the major browser…",{"value":167,"source":53,"evidence":168},"Bulk archiving of whole sites",[169],{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},[171,178,185],{"value":172,"source":53,"evidence":173},"Which back-end web services does it depend on?",[174],{"id":175,"by":176,"text":177},"6509415","alok-g","What Web services are you using in the back-end (that may potentially shut down)? I need my data accessible for low number of decades.",{"value":179,"source":53,"evidence":180},"Does it save video on pages?",[181],{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"6510576","d0m","Do you rip video on the page too? If so, I would definitely use this service. I've got videos with my company brand a bit everywhere and I can't find a good way to download it or…",{"value":186,"source":53,"evidence":187},"What happens when a redirected URL changes?",[188],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},[190,201,205,211],{"value":191,"source":53,"evidence":192},"Archive.is",[193,197],{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},"6509313","hk__2","There are free alternatives, like Peeep.us [1] and Archive.is. [1]: http:\u002F\u002Fwww.peeep.us\u002F [2]: http:\u002F\u002Farchive.is\u002F",{"id":198,"by":199,"text":200},"6508962","toomuchtodo","If it's something personal, I use http:\u002F\u002Farchive.is with their bookmarklet in Chrome (free; unlimited archiving). It immediately renders the page, saves a copy with a unique url,…",{"value":202,"source":53,"evidence":203},"Peeep.us",[204],{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},{"value":206,"source":53,"evidence":207},"Wget with WARC output and Internet Archive",[208],{"id":209,"by":199,"text":210},"6509448","There already is an open source analog: http:\u002F\u002Fwww.archiveteam.org\u002Findex.php?title=Wget_with_WARC_output + http:\u002F\u002Farchive.org\u002Fweb\u002Fweb.php",{"value":212,"source":53,"evidence":213},"Scrapbook Firefox add-on",[214],{"id":215,"by":216,"text":217},"6509536","vijucat","I have been using the Scrapbook add-on (see screenshots and manual here : [1]) in Firefox [2] for many years for this; it saves the web page to your local hard disk, and there…",{"comments":33,"answered":47,"key":219},[220,223],{"id":221,"text":222},"6508877","Hey creator here, we realize there is a bit of a trust issue, thats why we have the paid plans. 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