Mummify
Infrastructure
web archiving
SHOW HN2013
90points
66comments
#263of 1,739 in 2013
Top 16%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
6 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 20 critical, out of 45 comments about the project. Thread score -0.27.
Idea: 4 for, 5 againstPricing: 0 for, 7 againstDesign: 2 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 4 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good branding and name, clean site design
From 2 comments
This is an example of how great branding can help explain a product. Love the name, love the look, the copy is clever... but I don't like the low number of mummifications you get…
contextual on HNJust a thought: the "Link Rot" link should really be a Mummified link. I know Wikipedia isn't disappearing any time soon, but it just seemed silly to me not to "realise" the use…
bjackman on HN
Real problem worth solving
From 2 comments
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…
nine_k on HNReally like this, nice work. Is there a way to automatically mummify every link on an entire website or directory? Your method/service could be an interesting, easy to use way to…
newrenowhore on HN
Objections
Mummy quota per plan is too low for the price
From 4 comments
Weird pricing plan. At even the most expensive plan (of 15$/mo) only 50 'mummies' a month. Seems like an arbitrarily low number
arb99 on HN50 mummies per month for the highest plan is way way way too low. It should 10,000 or even 50,000. Think about it this way: the people who are willing to pay you for this type of…
AznHisoka on HNMost of the time, one will not know which pages one links to will disappear in the future. This service therefore only seems really useful if you use it with every link you make.…
gabemart on HNI use evernote premium ($45/year) which is much cheaper and includes a tonne of extra features. Compare this to the pricing plan of mummify at $15/month pricing or $180/year. for…
lingben on HN
Trust and longevity concerns; single point of failure
From 2 comments
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…
nine_k on HNInteresting in light of this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6504331 But to trust that something like this to make a permanent copy of stuff I'm linking to, I'd…
jboynyc on HN
Requires JavaScript; blank page with NoScript
From 2 comments
FYI, for those of us with Firefox's NoScript extension your site is completely broken. Nothing loads, it is just a blank page with a list of scripts you intend to run. I wasn't…
tombrossman on HNThe OP depends upon Javascript for any and all content delivery/rendition. Given the topic at hand, I find this more than a bit ironic. I gather from the comments that this is…
pasbesoin on HN
Copyright and DMCA takedown risk
From 2 comments
How is Mummify going to get around the copyright implications of ripping off the now removed piece of content which they don't own? Also wondering: what happens if the publisher…
lesinski on HNOne point to note is that a DMCA takedown targeted at Mummify.it will remove the content just as it would from the nytimes.com. If I manually save that content to disk then any…
junto on HN
Requests
Export in standard WARC format
From 2 comments
Its worth mentioning the http://archiveteam.org/ which does a lot of important web archival work. They use the Web ARChive format (WARC…
donpdonp on HNJust to second what donpdonp said (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6509604), I think a service like this needs to offer a standard format WARC…
acdha on HN
Self-hosted or open-source version
From 2 comments
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…
nine_k on HNThis is pretty cool, I'd be happy with a service that mummified it to storage I control, since I've had pages that I've pointed to at archive.org vanish after the current…
ChuckMcM on HN
Browser plugins
From 1 comment
Not every page one visits is worth storing. The whole point is to filter out (and save) the good from the rest. An aside: Mummify needs browser plugins for all the major browser…
contextual on HN
Bulk archiving of whole sites
From 1 comment
Really like this, nice work. Is there a way to automatically mummify every link on an entire website or directory? Your method/service could be an interesting, easy to use way to…
newrenowhore on HN
Questions
Which back-end web services does it depend on?
From 1 comment
What Web services are you using in the back-end (that may potentially shut down)? I need my data accessible for low number of decades.
alok-g on HN
Does it save video on pages?
From 1 comment
Do you rip video on the page too? If so, I would definitely use this service. I've got videos with my company brand a bit everywhere and I can't find a good way to download it or…
d0m on HN
What happens when a redirected URL changes?
From 1 comment
How is Mummify going to get around the copyright implications of ripping off the now removed piece of content which they don't own? Also wondering: what happens if the publisher…
lesinski on HN
Alternatives named
Archive.is
From 2 comments
There are free alternatives, like Peeep.us [1] and Archive.is. [1]: http://www.peeep.us/ [2]: http://archive.is/
hk__2 on HNIf it's something personal, I use http://archive.is with their bookmarklet in Chrome (free; unlimited archiving). It immediately renders the page, saves a copy with a unique url,…
toomuchtodo on HN
Peeep.us
From 1 comment
There are free alternatives, like Peeep.us [1] and Archive.is. [1]: http://www.peeep.us/ [2]: http://archive.is/
hk__2 on HN
Wget with WARC output and Internet Archive
From 1 comment
There already is an open source analog: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wget_with_WARC_output + http://archive.org/web/web.php
toomuchtodo on HN
Scrapbook Firefox add-on
From 1 comment
I have been using the Scrapbook add-on (see screenshots and manual here : [1]) in Firefox [2] for many years for this; it saves the web page to your local hard disk, and there…
vijucat on HN