EU-based and simpler Kagi alternative
Uruky
Details
- External ID
- 47035142
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- EU-based and simpler Kagi alternative
- Website domain
- uruky.com
- Launched
- Feb. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5316711590296496
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
For the last couple of months I've been working with my wife on Uruky [1]. It's a EU-based and simpler Kagi [2] alternative (privacy-focused and ad-free search with domain boosting/exclusion rules).We've been using it with friends and family with much success (and hashbangs like "!g", "!d", or "!e" work for any edge cases we haven't fixed/improved yet).It's already using EU-based search providers with EU-based indexes like Mojeek and Marginalia. We're currently waiting for EUSP (the new Ecosia/Qwant-effort-related index) to provide us with an API key.For the next 24h, new signups will have a free 24h trial (unlimited searches) — usually, because bots make things too hard and we don't want your personal data, there is no free trial period.After that, if you're interested in trying it for a few days and are a human, reach out with your account number and I'll give you a couple of weeks for free.You can see the main differences between Kagi and Uruky here [3], but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get a copy of the source code!If you have any suggestions, comments, or recommendations, I'd love to hear it.Thank you for your attention and kindness. I really appreciate it!---[1] https://uruky.com[2] https://kagi.com[3] https://uruky.com/kagi-alternative
Enrichment
- Theme
- self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- privacy-focused search engine alternative
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Uruky is a privacy meta-search aggregator querying existing third-party search APIs (Marginalia, Mojeek, etc.) and applying client-side filtering and domain boosting rules.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #10 of 19 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 101 days after the earliest competitor.
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