Hey HN, I'm building an open source search platform that lives on your device,
indexing what you want, exposing it to you in a super simple & super fast interface.
I took the idea of adding "site:reddit.com" to your Google searches and expanded on it with the idea of "lenses" to add context to your search query and give the crawler direction in terms of what to crawl & index. This means that all queries are run locally, it does not relay your search to any 3rd-party search engine. Think of it as your personal bookcase at home vs. the Library of Congress.
It's still in a super early state but would love for people to start using it and
providing some feedback and see what sort of lenses people want to build and search through!
Some details about the stack for the interested:
* All Rust w/ some HTML/CSS for the client.
* Client is built w/ yew + tauri
* Backend uses tantivy to index the web pages, sqlite3 to hold metadata / crawl queue
I took the idea of adding "site:reddit.com" to your Google searches and expanded on it with the idea of "lenses" to add context to your search query and give the crawler direction in terms of what to crawl & index. This means that all queries are run locally, it does not relay your search to any 3rd-party search engine. Think of it as your personal bookcase at home vs. the Library of Congress.
It's still in a super early state but would love for people to start using it and providing some feedback and see what sort of lenses people want to build and search through!
Some details about the stack for the interested:
Thanks in advance!