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[ MEMEX TEAM ] Hey Hackernews crowd, my name is Oliver and I’m the founder of the worldbrain.io, the project developing this Memex. You can ask me anything abo

[ MEMEX TEAM ] Hey Hackernews crowd, my name is Oliver and I’m the founder of the worldbrain.io, the project developing this Memex. You can ask me anything about our strategy, our financial model “Steward Ownership” and roast me about the details of our vision. # Vision Summary: https://worldbrain.io/vision_deck https://worldbrain.io/vision_deck # Economic Vision: https://worldbrain.io/crowdfunding-memex/#why https://worldbrain.io/crowdfunding-memex/#why # Detailed Vision: https://worldbrain.io/vision https://worldbrain.io/vision Almost exactly 4 years I started the journey of researching a solution on how our society can collectively tackle information overload & misinformation (also known as “fake news”). I believe that getting this right is crucial for us to make the most complex personal, social and political decisions effectively, sustainably and compassionately - or go bust within the next century. Counter to common tactics of approaching this problem I think we should not dictate a certain truth to battle misinformation but give people the tools that shared truths can emerge. Memex is our first step towards making this possible and we are excited to show it to you today. In order to build the first prototype of Memex I learnt how to code. (or rather how to be a skriptkiddy and piece together things from GitHub and StackOverflow ;) ) Even though the code was pretty shitty, it helped to gather a wonderful team and a community of volunteers that rebuilt everything from scratch (and ditch my shipwreck of code). So in reality they did 99% of the work of developing Memex and deserve the praise. :) Now here we are. After a tinkering and iterating on Memex over the past 18 months we feel ready to show you our progress. Let us know how we can improve Memex to make it really useful in helping you to overcome the information overload in your web-research. - Oliver

WhiteOwlLion 8y ago
I'm glad you forked Falcon and developed it to this point. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14648312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14648312 HistorySearch came out with another Chrome extension, but I don't like their approach at all: https://historysearch.com/ https://historysearch.com/ I'm wiling to give your product a try again. Thanks for taking it this far...
- BlackForestBoy 8y ago
  Hey! Thanks for the kind words. Indeed we initially forked Falcon to develop "Research-Engine", the first iteration of this. After we could validate that people really wanted it, we rebuilt everything from scratch. So no Falcon code is there anymore. Yeah saw the new HistorySearch update too. Thought they were not in the game anymore. Their product works well, however I don't feel comfortable pushing all my history to some server I have no control over. Especially not by default. Also, offline-first is so important to me too. It's often that I work from a plane or with shitty internet connection and want to add annotations or search my history. Hope you like our new updates. We know there is still toooons of stuff to do. So let us know where you have troubles :) We'll do our best to improve it bit by bit. Literally :)

WhiteOwlLion 8y ago

I'm glad you forked Falcon and developed it to this point. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14648312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14648312 HistorySearch came out with another Chrome extension, but I don't like their approach at all: https://historysearch.com/ https://historysearch.com/ I'm wiling to give your product a try again. Thanks for taking it this far...

BlackForestBoy 8y ago
Hey! Thanks for the kind words. Indeed we initially forked Falcon to develop "Research-Engine", the first iteration of this. After we could validate that people really wanted it, we rebuilt everything from scratch. So no Falcon code is there anymore. Yeah saw the new HistorySearch update too. Thought they were not in the game anymore. Their product works well, however I don't feel comfortable pushing all my history to some server I have no control over. Especially not by default. Also, offline-first is so important to me too. It's often that I work from a plane or with shitty internet connection and want to add annotations or search my history. Hope you like our new updates. We know there is still toooons of stuff to do. So let us know where you have troubles :) We'll do our best to improve it bit by bit. Literally :)