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6 points by kuldeep_kap ↗ HN
Few days ago I got frustrated by inability to search a web page which I had visited few months ago. Bookmarking services are great, but it always happens that we forget to bookmark something or don't find something important at the moment only to realize after few days that we should've.

Even browsers' web history can go back only few weeks or months and if our system crashes or we switch to some other, it's all gone.

So, I thought why not record my whole web history, put it up in the cloud and make it easily searchable from anywhere.

http://newtiny.com

Note: Yesterday, I had put up the link on HN and few of the users raised the concerns regarding lack of a 'Privacy Policy'. Now, I've added that. I thank you everyone for a great response to the service.

'Newtiny keeps all your data private and accessible only to you'

I also added ability to delete all your information and account from Newtiny. You can leave anytime if you feel it's not for you.

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maxbrown
The privacy stuff looks good, and is of course very important.

A few notes/thoughts FWIW:

1. Typo - "Newtiny stores all your web history allowing access from [anywhere] and makes it easily searchable."

2. The screenshot doesn't do much for me, maybe you could use that real estate better? Some other page in the app?

3. Can the Sign In / Sign Up not be two separate links going to the same page? That was confusing. In fact, might be even better to stick that on the front page.

maxbrown
One more copy edit - "Now, you don't have to worry about clicking on any buttons or [deciding] which pages to save. Newtiny saves all your web browsing history."
kuldeep_kap
@maxbrown

Thanks a lot for the feedback. I think I'll incorporate all the changes you suggested.

rubypay
Interested in the code for a Firefox extension that does the same thing as your Chrome extension? I made this exact service two years ago, while also saving visual snapshots of every webpage. The database which stored text from webpages quickly became massive, but nobody was willing to pay for the service so I shut it down.
kuldeep_kap
I'd love to learn more about your past endeavor and would love few pointers on developing firefox extension. I haven't really developed on firefox before. You can email me at kuldeepkapade /at/ gmail
sorbus
Chrome already has full-text search of every page I visit (and keeps it around forever, as far as I can tell). The only advantage this seems to offer is letting it be accessed from anywhere, and storing it in the cloud. I'm very unsure whether it's worth the risk of funneling every page I visit to a third party. Yes, you have a privacy policy; that's great. What are you going to do when someone hacks into your service and steals all the data that you've collected? Is the data encrypted - and if so, does anyone other than the user have the key to decrypt their data? Why doesn't your site support ssl? You offer users the ability to delete all their data; how long will it persist in back-ups? If you have to restore from backup, how will you make sure that deleted data doesn't get back in? What measures are you taking to ensure that no one steals your backups?

EDIT: Oh, and some questions about the interface: Chrome's full-text search only finds instances of the word. What additional features does yours have? Can I specify a date range to search within? Does it support operators; can it give additional weight either to frequently visited websites or infrequently visited sites? (a "the thing I'm looking for was on a site I'd never been to before" checkbox, or something like that). Is it technically feasible to present a demo account to let people play around with the interface and see if your service is worth it before giving you their data?