September 20, 2018

Making a filesystem for the web, to make retrieving webpages easy and fast.

Hi Hackers!

I'm Martijn, from the Netherlands but live in Kiev. Moved to Kiev about 2,5 years ago to be closer to the guys who are working on History Search with me.

My goal is to turn History Search into a filesystem for the web. What History Search does for you is make it super easy to retrieve any webpage you've been using any words you remember on it. This makes it super easy to find back articles or gmails (is that even a thing? 😅), open documents or quickly navigate web services.

How it works is History Search uses browser extensions to index the text on webpages when you visit them. This way you any word you remember will be enough retrieve it for you. So its both technically and literally an index (you know that page in the back of those dusty encyclopaedias).

History Search is a product I'm very passionate about, and have spent the past 3,5 years working on. For any interested the full story on there here

Finally something recent I'm very proud of after so many years of hard, is our public launch on Product Hunt yesterday were we accepted with open arms and got over 800 upvotes.

Looking forward to here from you, and what you think of History Search

Link: www.producthunt.com/posts/history-search


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    How does this compare to IPFS?

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      +1 on this. How is it different than IPFS ? Could you please elaborate more on what you're trying to accomplish ?

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      Hey Kbnet! Thanks for your interest, but this doesn't relate to IPFS in anyway. Maybe I don't fully understand the Q, would you mind elaborating?