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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
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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.

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 18 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

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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