It's something we've felt has been best served by the OS at this point (macOS and Linux, at least), and adds significant complexity (we need to start tracking multiple currencies, their current exchange rates, parse different regex/ways of people doing that), so we've been reluctant to add it so far.

I'd be curious to understand if you bypass those OS entry points (and why) and use search for those things.

To signup you don't provide any information (a randomly-generated account number is assigned to you), and you can run a proof-of-work captcha to get 2h for free. You can choose among many different search providers (for defaults and per query), including Uruky Site Search, powering our own index.

Last month we reached 250 monthly active accounts (we’re nearing 300 now), and launched support for XMR/Monero and BTC/Bitcoin payments via ProxyStore [2]!

The main differences between Uruky and Kagi, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, etc. are visible in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get copy of the source code (licensed as BUSL, into AGPLv3 in 2 years — a suggestion made here in HN)!

Our main challenge continues to be discoverability and outreach because we want to do it ethically. Ideas are welcome! We’ve been sponsoring open source projects, open source maintainers, and indie, small-web, and privacy-related websites and applications/groups. This month was Cryptomator [3]!

Feature-wise, for August the most visible things that shipped already were our image search gallery mode and our new sponsorships page. We’re currently (slowly and sustainably) increasing our own index, focused on indie/small web, and plan to add a new search provider in the upcoming weeks.

Thank you for your kindness!

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[1]: https://uruky.com [2]: https://digitalgoods.proxysto.re/en/brand/uruky [3]: https://cryptomator.org

It's private, paid, ad-free and personally customizable search. To signup you don't provide any information (a randomly-generated account number is assigned to you), and you can run a proof-of-work captcha to get 2h for free. You can choose among many different search providers, including Uruky Site Search, powering our own index.

We've done a lot over the last few months, most recently adding Mwmbl as a search provider and supporting crypto payments via ProxyStore (anonymous vouchers). Currently we're working on sustainably growing our own index.

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There's no personal information necessary whatsoever (when you signup, you're assigned a randomly-generated account number, which is what's used to login). You can get 2h of a free trial _if_ you pass a local and private proof-of-work captcha. Then you top-up your account with a payment, and that's it (you can even use crypto via our ProxyStore partnership [1]). No subscription, no data from you is stored in your database.

This month we reached 250 monthly active accounts, _nearing_ 300, but _hopefully_ that'll happen next month. It's much harder without a subscription and social media ads, but we wouldn't want it any other way.

Oh, you also get the source code after 12 months (BUSL -> AGPLv3 in 2 years).

[1]: https://digitalgoods.proxysto.re/en/brand/uruky

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My wife has no public information, and as for me, hopefully seeing some of my public interactions mostly related to code forges or here, in lobsters, IRC, or Privacy Guides, there should be enough to get a sense of what I stand for.

Regarding Uruky itself and search, we've published a Threat Models document with some more information that should help clarify everything: https://uruky.com/docs/threat-models

Thanks, I hope that helps!

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You can look for Common Crawl or Open Web Index for dataset sizes and how many URLs those include to get a sense of baseline storage costs, and then 2x that for minimum usability.

It's honestly a bit tough to accept that we got a report of abuse and are still dealing with the aftermath of that after having a single crawler go haywire for a few hours (because we play nice and identify ourselves properly), but these... "mysterious" bots that keep hitting all the servers everywhere thousands of times per day just go on like nothing's happening and "no one"'s to blame.

With our ProxyStore partnership, they're handling the crypto payments, we only invoice them for fiat and they pay us in fiat!

We have an index, it's just not very big, yet. We had a major setback last month with a bug (for less than 24h, the crawler didn't respect robots.txt) and had to delete it entirely, and have been slowly rebuilding it.

You're correct the commercial use is only not allowed before the AGPL comes into play.

You should be able to click on the "top up" link (top or bottom) and see an option for a captcha ("click to prove you're a human"). If you don't, reach out via email (don't share your account number) and I'll give you a voucher for a couple of days.