Very welcome! Hope it's going to make a difference when launching next
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I do think I realize where the confusion is coming from; you are seeing the pricing page from mobile? You mentioned being able to search the things from mobile, this sadly isn’t possible yet. Mobile browser extensions are only slowly evolving (but we’re on it), so for now History Search is desktop only.
Will look into the examples you provided, thank you, and see how we can use it to make History Search better.
History Search is not intended for sale. Like I said it’s just our first step, plus I don’t believe in our current leaders - Apple aside, I’m impressed by practically everything they do. Also users have complete control over what History Search indexes and stores. So if a sale would ever happen you can always export and remove any or all data in History Search-but again a sale isn’t the goal, we aren’t even funded at moment (well, self funded). Ontop of our intentions and perspective of what the web should be, privacy regulations are finally getting better, this gives companies who choose a straightforward business approach a chance. A better paid Facebook wouldn’t have stood a chance 10 years ago. Luckily this is changing.
There are over 3 billion internet users. 500 million would be able to benefit from and can afford History Search. Reaching these numbers is our goal.
I didn’t go into everything you mentioned in this message, but it’s all noted and I would like to thank you for the kind words and your time to help us improve.
Kind regards, Martijn
I like what Worldbrain is doing but their extension is a prototype. As you will notice they support plain-text search (similar to ctrl-f), and History Search is full-text search and won't impact your device's CPU load or memory.
On their website they mention their next version will be cloud-based too. This is not to spy on people but because of the performance demands of a full-text search engine and the applications—this types of services also require maintenance. Just to give an impression; our search engine alone is over 3,5 GB, this doesn't include the app or databases.
What I would recommend to try them both out and see which one is best for you.
I’m going to review these confusing things. The reason why it says try now is because we offer 3000 pages free, most recent visited webpages, and offer a 30 day money back garuantee.
We’re not hiding anything, the pricing does say when billed annually. Also our privacy policy is super clear, also I answered this answer in more depth below.
On the free plan you can keep using it even when you cross the free search limit. Because Older records are archived and will become available once you remove more recent records, or upgrade. Not a lot of services do this.
Keep in mind this price isn’t very steep if you take into account it isn’t just cloud storage, most cloud solutions charge this or more and don’t include the entire app, cross-browser extensions and service. Also don’t worry, we’re far from profitable and don’t drive ferraris in the valley. We work day and night, and pay server expenses out of our own pocket.
We aren’t Google and don’t show advertising to further ensure user privacy. Taking this into consideration, we believe users who see the value in History Search won’t expect us to starve and pay the hosting expenses all on our own.
Our mission is solving how hard it is to retrieve digital information online, but to keep doing so we need our users’ support, also financially. We have choosen annual billing as preferred and advertised pricing because its a low cost subscription, and it would be a waste to spend around 2,9%+$0.29 per month. Thats a lot a waste of funds, since its not going to solving the problem or providing you a valuable service but to a transaction fee.
Hope this straightens things out, looking forward to seeing you aboard this movement.
Kind regards, Martijn
So its simple; It does track you; thats the point. However, you control what History Search does and where it's active.
Any data you capture using History Search can easily be deleted and is available for export to csv, for you to do with as you please. Besides that History Search can also easily be paused, or webpages can be blacklisted.
We also have a very clear policy about privacy and security: it is yours, we also comply with GDPR regulations. If you're interested you can read more about these on historysearch.com/security or historysearch.com/privacy
My goal is to turn History Search into a filesystem for the web. Anyone can use it for free and index/search 3000 pages, most recent. Pages out of the limit are archived until you upgrade or remove some pages. We believe the future of internet is trust, and reward: if people like our services they simply pay us—no ads no selling of personal data—if no one pays we will no longer be able to improve; this is in my opinion a healthy internet.
What History Search does is revolutionary. Since it will be increasingly difficult to do all the things we do online without a backbone that makes it possible to retrieve webpages you've been, using any words you remember on it. This help you find back articles or gmails, open documents or quickly navigate web services.
Can you imagine having to remember all the hidden files on your computer or the places in memory your files reside? Well this is what it's like working online (more or less, a bit less extreme though haha)
How it works is, History Search uses browser extensions to index the text on webpages when you visit them. This way any word you remember will be enough to retrieve it for you. So its both technically and literally an index (you know those pages 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. The vision is even bigger: an entirely new way of working with decentralised information sources — in a way they are still connected. The future of History Search is Convergate: Convergence Gateway. The names speaks for its self.
We value trust, and utility over anything. Companies that need to be free aren't any good. Have you ever wondered so every successful service which is "free", is also a waste of time (companies like Wikipedia aren't in this categorie since they receive donations).
Long story short, History Search is a cloud storage so yes your data is stored on our (well Amazon's) servers. But our system is solid, and we do everything we can to make sure our user's privacy is respected.
I launched it this week on Product Hunt if you want to see some more info: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/history-search
Finding someone else will be equally hard, if not harder since you won't share a friendship or similar vision that lead to the "idea" in the first place.
I believe everyone to have potential, its up to you to get it out of them—if you want a successful company at least.