Reframe
Surf like it's 1999
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Reframe is an open-source browser based on Electron for macOS that brings back the look & feel of Safari 1.0, Netscape 4.8, Firefox 1.0 and Internet Explorer 5.0, with a built-in Wayback Mode.
PH · launched Jun 20, 2026 · 268 upvotes (top 46%) · 0 views
Niche: specialized and developer web browsers · 83 launches, 9 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- User Experience
- GitHub
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More like this: all 83 launches in specialized and developer web browsers →
Could you build this?
Yes Reframe is an Electron app wrapping Chromium that skins the window chrome with retro CSS/assets and routes certain navigation queries through the public Wayback Machine API.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 149 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #74 of 150 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 176 days after the earliest competitor.
- Quick.Surf · ph · 2026-09-23 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Orb Browser · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Web Frames · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- WolfWeb · ph · 2026-11-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Homedex · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- <Hyper-frame> · hn · 2026-04-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Blanc · ph · 2026-09-17 · 89 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Thravik · ph · 2026-10-09 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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