[EDIT] Several commenters rightly noted that heavy em-dash usage is normal for the New Yorker (and common thanks to OS auto-replacement), so my “LLM giveaway” quip was off-base. Leaving this up for context—thanks for the corrections.
Hey, this is Gabe from zenfetch. Been following you guys for a few months now since your first launch. I definitely resonate with all the problems you've described regarding celery shortcomings / other distributed task queues. We're on celery right now and have been through the ringer with various workflow platforms. Only reason we haven't switched to Hatchet is because we are finally in a stable place, though that might change soon in which case I'd be very open to jumping ship.
I know a lot of folks are going after the AI agent workflow orchestration platform, do you see yourselves progressing there?
In my head, Hatchet coupled with BAML (https://www.boundaryml.com/) could be an incredible combination to support these AI agents. Congrats on the launch
Interesting to see Kagi on this list. One of our users for Zenfetch specifically requested the option to see their Zenfetch articles alongside their search results, so we naively developed that feature to appear beside Google SERPs...
Turns out, he was a Kagi power user. Not the worst mistake on our end, though pretty neat to see it in the wild
This is Gabe, the founder of Zenfetch. Thanks for sharing. We're putting together an export option where you can download all your saved data as a CSV and should get that out by end of week.
Appreciate that and yes in the absolute worst case, you can email us and we can manually export your data on your behalf.
We are using a fixed price today and have no restriction on storage. This might change in the future if costs scale, though it’s not an immediate priority and we’d be sure to communicate those changes well in advance.
Once you’re onboarded, feel free to message us with the in app support widget. It’s a direct line to the team slack and we tend to respond almost immediately
Snapshot is taken from the actual content at that point in time. We haven’t enabled a reader format just yet where you could view the original text. Right now, clicking the card in the dashboard will redirect you to the URL.
If you were to chat with the article from the dashboard, it would be preserving the snapshotted content and leverage that information in the final answer (same with using the search functionality).
Been a minute since the APL days though I still have fond memories of my time there. Big fan of the Pensieve analogy, maybe we'll throw that in the landing page lol
Thanks for bringing this up, as privacy is one of (if not THE) highest priorities for us.
Happy to answer any questions you have, here are some preliminary notes that might be helpful:
1. We don't sell your data. Our business model is subscription based and we have DPAs with model providers to ensure none of that data is used for training
2. All data you explicitly save to zenfetch is encrypted in transit and at rest.
In the future, we'd like to move to a local-first platform where the data storage and processing takes place on your own machine
Yes! In the dashboard (https://dashboard.zenfetch.com) you should see a settings icon on the bottom left. There you can disable the zenfetch button from appearing on the page.
Then you can click on the zenfetch extension popup to still save a tab :D
Completely understand and we definitely want to support more browsers including Safari.
The process for exporting chromium based extensions to safari is not super straightforward (HN Community please prove me wrong!), though glad to hear it's a priority
[EDIT] Several commenters rightly noted that heavy em-dash usage is normal for the New Yorker (and common thanks to OS auto-replacement), so my “LLM giveaway” quip was off-base. Leaving this up for context—thanks for the corrections.