Ask HN: Does anyone have an archive of quirky.com?

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I would like to read the text of an idea I submitted to quirky.com around 2014. At the time, quirky.com was a place where you submitted an idea and supposedly it got voted on and could become a product. The site was bad, the process didn't work, and they went bankrupt and were liquidated in 2015. A similar thing seems to be operating at the same domain now.

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Some of it is on archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140607001646/https://www.quirk...

You can use this tool to download the files for the site:

https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader/

Thanks. I didn't know about the downloader. My actual aim here though is to find the text of a submission I posted there and I'm guessing that's a lost cause :-(

I bet that database is chock full of prior art that would be really useful for patent litigations. I wonder if they're selling it.

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