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Sift - Save links, ask questions, get cited answers

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Sift is a personal library for everything you save. Drop in links, articles, and videos with a right-click or the Chrome extension, then ask your library questions in plain English and get cited answers pulled from your own saved content. No folders, no tags, search is the only navigation. Free for your first 50 saves, with AI search included from the start. Built solo, launching today.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Suharsha, a solo founder in Melbourne. I built Sift alongside a full-time job because I kept saving links and articles I meant to read again, and never finding them. Sift is a personal library for everything you save. No folders, no tags. You save with a right-click or the Chrome extension, and when you want something back, you just ask your library in plain English. Every answer comes with citations back to your own saved content, so you're never trusting a summary you can't check. A few things it does: • Save links, articles, and YouTube videos (search inside the transcript, not just the title) • Ask your whole library questions and get cited, streaming answers • An MCP server, so you can query your library from Claude Desktop or any MCP-compatible client • Free for your first 50 saves, with AI search included from day one. Pro is $9/month for unlimited saves and YouTube ingestion. This is a solo build, so I've spent more time on the search and citation quality than on things like folders and tags, which I don't think you need if search actually works. Would love your honest feedback, especially on the first-save experience and whether the answers feel trustworthy and any new features you'd like to see. Cheers, Suharsha

The "ask your library" feature sounds genuinely useful, especially the cited answers pulling from your own saves. One thing I'd love to see is the ability to export or back up my library as plain markdown files, so I'm not locked into Sift if I ever want to move elsewhere or just keep a personal archive offline.

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 that's a really good point and a fair concern. No lock-in can be very useful for someone who's even trying out personal libraries too.

Markdown makes sense as the format too, since it keeps citations and structure readable outside Sift.

I'll add this to the backlog properly rather than let it get lost in a comment thread. If you end up trying Sift and hit this wall for real, let me know, that's the kind of signal that moves something up the list faster than a launch-day request alone.

Thanks for the comment Ela.

Congrats on the launch, love the no-folders approach. One thing I'd really want is mobile capture that works just as smoothly as the desktop right-click, maybe a share sheet extension on iOS/Android so saving a link from Twitter or Safari doesn't break the flow when I'm away from my desk.

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 thank you Veysel.

Yes absolutely. That is next on the roadmap.

That will be very handy when you're on the go and see an interesting article or a video which you don't have time to fully ready or watch.

Right-clicked a YouTube link into my library and the AI answer actually pulled a timestamp from the video. That's the kind of "wait, it worked" moment that makes me keep a tab open.

Maker

 Sift understands the video context using its transcript which is what makes searching inside videos possible. Thanks for the comment Ayaz