MSMirko Stahnkeinfindnix.hashnode.dev·Aug 23 · 4 min readBring Your Own Key: Building an AI Portal That Never Touches the BillingBring-your-own-key, not another subscription Every few months another "all AI models in one place" product shows up, and almost all of them work the same way: you pay them a subscription, and they res10
MSMirko Stahnkeinfindnix.hashnode.dev·Aug 22 · 4 min readBuilding a Search Engine for Kids That Doesn't Track ThemSearch engines for kids usually mean one of two things Either a heavily filtered wrapper around a big commercial index (which still leaks through things a filter didn't anticipate), or a walled garden22PL
MSMirko Stahnkeinfindnix.hashnode.dev·Aug 22 · 4 min readBuilding a Community Wiki Around a Privacy-First Search EngineThe problem: a search engine needs more than a search box findnix.eu is a EU-based, privacy-first search engine — "Find alles, speichere nix" (find everything, store nothing) is the tagline. Once real00
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