Comment on Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rotComments−nine_k12yThe approach is nice, the problem being solved is real. Hopefully paying customers will flock in.The question: is mummify.it itself going to go under some day?So I'll wait for an open-source analog of this service, to run on my own tiny server. (Or carve some time to write it myself, of course.)−toomuchtodo12yThere already is an open source analog:http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wget_with_WARC_ou... + http://archive.org/web/web.php−nine_k12yWget is definitely a good start. What's needed is a shiny and usable UI, ways to catalog / tag / search inside your saved data, and a painless installation process. This could use come work.−devcpp12yI think Evernote was also intended to solve this. Unfortunately, it is also proprietary. So, there is definitely demand for this.
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The approach is nice, the problem being solved is real. Hopefully paying customers will flock in.
The question: is mummify.it itself going to go under some day?
So I'll wait for an open-source analog of this service, to run on my own tiny server. (Or carve some time to write it myself, of course.)
There already is an open source analog:
http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wget_with_WARC_ou... + http://archive.org/web/web.php
Wget is definitely a good start. What's needed is a shiny and usable UI, ways to catalog / tag / search inside your saved data, and a painless installation process. This could use come work.
I think Evernote was also intended to solve this. Unfortunately, it is also proprietary. So, there is definitely demand for this.