Please consider producing archives in WARC format, and either donating captures of public pages to the Internet Archive (and other interested archives), or supporting ways for users to download their own archives in that format for them to donate them themselves and use in systems like Webrecorder.<p>(Note that a download of just page content and assets isn't enough; WARC stores headers, etc., also.)
Founder here, happy to field questions and feedback!<p>Right now PageDash is quite a simple product, but hopefully with sufficient traction we can continue to implement things like full-text search, tagging support, link sharing, as well as mobile support. Your support is absolutely crucial to making PageDash come alive even more in the future.<p>This is my first product, thank you for being nice :)
Why must everything be a cloud service? I use ScrapBook (<a href="http://www.xuldev.org/scrapbook/" rel="nofollow">http://www.xuldev.org/scrapbook/</a>) to save web pages locally.
I really like the idea of this and other, similar products/services. I haven't used any of them since they don't seem to be exactly what I want.<p>What I really want is auto tagging and classification + semantic search. I don't even really want to have to save the page. I want this functionality on my browsing history.<p>Maybe some increased functionality for saving specific types of pages. If I save a recipe, I want the service to recognize that it's a recipe and put it in my 'cookbook'. With a consistent format, if possible. If I save a blog post, tag the topic, technology and language used.
The previous web archive launched on HN is already dead [0]. Many of the comments from that discussion also apply here. Good luck and I hope you'll manage to stay online!<p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14644441" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14644441</a>
Signed up - saved my first page - and viewed my dash within 5 mins. Good stuff. Now, all you need is not to go out of business (or open source before you do). Seriously though, good luck on the business side.
I should point out that PageDash also tries to handle saving nested pages and iframes, I'm not sure it's something that other archivers try to do.<p>Also Web Components (custom elements, shadow DOM) support is definitely do-able and something for the pipeline. It's not something even the Internet Archive is capable of right now. Wayback Machine's youtube.com archive is blank.
Anything FOSS in this sphere? I'm slowly going towards building my solution to automatically archive my Firefox bookmarks locally, but a bit too slowly.
Have you considered saving files (such as fonts and JS libs) loaded through major CDNs centrally just once instead of storing it again each time a page is saved?<p>Maybe you already have plans for this, but it would be smart to implement a system that checks whether files are already present on your server so you don't waste any of your user's quota and the server's disk space.
After signing in, my initial reaction is that I wish I didn't have to use a browser extension to save a page.<p>It would be handy if I could just enter a URL and have it saved, a la Pinboard or Instapaper.<p>That said, this worked very well on my first try.
Alright folks, it's 3am where I am at the moment, gonna hit the sack. I'll address more questions and concerns tomorrow. Thank you for all your feedback!