What this site holds
If you pasted a URL
The page at that address is fetched once, from our server, and read for its title, its description and its first few headings. Those words are turned into a list of terms and matched against the index. The result is cached for an hour so that the same address does not cause a second fetch, and then it is gone. The address is not stored in a database, not attached to you, and not sold or shared. There is no account, no cookie and no tracking pixel.
The front page says how many people are reading it. That count comes from a one-way hash of your IP address, salted with a secret only this deployment knows, held for five minutes and then deleted. It cannot be turned back into an address, it is not a cookie, and nothing is written to your browser. It exists so the number is real: identifying a reader by something the browser makes up would let one person claim to be a hundred.
Page views are counted by Vercel Analytics, which records the path and coarse country, and does not use cookies or build a profile of you. Our host keeps ordinary server logs, as every web host does.
If you are in the index
There are 24,692 entries. Each one is a message somebody published in public — a GitHub issue, a Hacker News comment, a YouTube comment, a question on Software Recommendations — in which they said they wanted something that did not exist for them. For each we hold: the words themselves, the account name they were posted under, the link back to the original, the date, the repository or video it was posted under, and the address of the profile picture that account shows publicly on that platform. The picture is loaded from the platform, not copied here.
Nothing private is collected. There is no email address, no location, no attempt to work out who anybody is beyond the name they chose to post under. Nothing is inferred and nothing is bought.
Why we think this is allowed: the material is already public, and the purpose — helping somebody find a person who asked for the thing they built — is a legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. That interest does not outweigh your objection. If you object, you come out. No reason needed and nothing to justify.
Taking yourself out
Open an issue and give the handle or a link to the message. Every entry under that name is removed, from the live index immediately and from the published data file on the next rebuild. You do not have to prove the account is yours; a wrong removal costs this site one row, and the alternative asks you to hand over more about yourself than the entry contains.
Not affiliated
Questions from Software Recommendations are used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Every one keeps the name it was asked under and links back to the original, which is what that licence asks for and what this site does for every source anyway.
This site is not connected to, endorsed by, or operated with GitHub, Y Combinator, Hacker News, Google, YouTube or Stack Exchange. Each entry links back to the original so you can read it in the place it was written. It is one of 26 sites built in 26 days at onedaybuilt.com.