Kage
Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing
Details
- External ID
- 48529990
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Kaghez
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 712
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9959016393442623
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- offline website archiver
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping headless Chrome to capture HTML is easy, bundling a whole dynamic web application, assets, and custom runtime into a standalone, single self-executing binary requires non-trivial packaging and link rewrites.
What it would actually take: The architecture typically uses Go or Rust with embedded resources (e.g., via embed or rust-embed) wrapping a lightweight HTTP server and a headless browser driver. The difficult parts are deep web asset serialization (rewriting inline styles, JS fetches, service workers, and SPAs) to make them completely offline-functional, and cross-compiling everything into a zero-dependency static executable. Building it requires deep knowledge of web scraping mechanics, offline DOM serialization, and systems packaging.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: MHTML format, yt-dlp for video downloading, Kiwix for viewing ZIM files, CHM files
Concerns raised: ZIM files not searchable or indexable, Broken images and Unicode symbols in archived output, JavaScript disabled breaks interactive features like sidebars, Modal banners and delayed content loading prevent proper archiving, Video downloading not currently supported
Feature requests: Video downloading support via yt-dlp integration, Search/indexing capability for archived content, Support for cookie-based authentication and Vimeo video mirroring, More relaxed JavaScript handling for interactive elements, Bulk export to Markdown or dependency-free HTML formats
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 107 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 108 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 226 days after the earliest competitor.
- kaggle_32gpu_free · github · 2026-09-15 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Banquish · hn · 2026-08-14 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- bg0 · github · 2026-09-14 · 251 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Embed a real Linux terminal on your website · hn · 2026-08-14 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- seenix · github · 2026-09-15 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Otto · hn · 2026-06-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Cursed Browser · hn · 2026-05-25 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Dark-Web · github · 2026-09-14 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
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