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Similar projects and alternatives to stract
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ArchiveBox
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
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privacypass-extension
Source code for the Chrome and Firefox versions of the Kagi Privacy Pass browser extension
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sp1
SP1 is a zero‑knowledge virtual machine that proves the correct execution of programs compiled for the RISC-V architecture.
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MeiliSearch
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
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Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux
you may like to try https://marginalia-search.com which is great for finding things unexpectedly and much more from the small internet. https://stract.com is great too
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YaCy, a distributed Web Search Engine, based on a peer-to-peer network
There are already many project about search:
- https://www.marginalia.nu/
- https://searchmysite.net/
- https://lucene.apache.org/
- elastic search
- https://presearch.com/
- https://stract.com/
- https://wiby.me/
I think that all project are fun. I would like to see one succeeding at reaching mainstream level of attention.
I have also been gathering links meta data for some time. Maybe I will use them to feed any eventual self hosted search engine, or language model, if I decide to experiment with that.
- domains for seed https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
- bookmarks seed https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database
- links for year https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2024
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Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google Built in Spare Time
The actual URL is https://stract.com/
The link is to a blog that tries to get your email in order to let you read.
- StractOrg/stract: web search done right
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The Guy Building an Open-Source Google Search Competitor in His Spare Time
Title was edited for length and synthesized by combining the original 404 Media email newsletter title[0] with the original article title[1].
[0] The Guy Building an Open-Source Google Search Competitor
[1] This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time
Previously/related on HN:
Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine (https://stract.com/)
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Stract: Open-Souce, Non-Profit Search Engine
Sources: https://github.com/StractOrg/stract
Backend in Rust (axum web framework, rocksdb), frontend with Svelte.
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about 1 year ago
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The primary programming language of stract is Rust.
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