Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderWow, it was really hard to find out what this software does. I finally found a demo at the end of an hour-long talk from 2 years ago: https://youtu.be/PlAU_da_U4s?t=2687 So it seems to have a bunch of scripts to import data into its database from a variety of sources (including cloud services), and provides a search interface to navigate that historical data. And it has a lot of under-the-hood stuff about replication, and it's entirely self-hosted.
I have used perkeep. I still do at least in theory. I love the concept of it but it’s become… not quite abandonware, but it never gained enough traction to really take on a full life of its own before the primary author moved on. A bit of a tragedy because the basic idea is pretty compelling.
Since people are confused about what this is I'll write a summary (from old memory so it's probably 80% correct) It is a consumer-oriented storage system that is: - Content addressable - Indexed - Tag-oriented (vs. hierarchical) - Permissions, encryption, compression, sharing, etc. - Spans storage across machines and clouds - FUSE mountable - Has CLI and Web interfaces built-in The intent is to be a personal data dumpster that you can throw all of your files and other data…
Curious if someone has tried this, and if so, what their experience has been like?
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 957
- Total comments
- 292
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-15 | Perkeep – Open-source data modeling, storing, search, sharing and synchronizingFirst breakout | noncoml | 255 | 105 |
| 2020-01-09 | Perkeep | eitland | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-01-27 | Perkeep | duggan | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-04-07 | Perkeep: Lets you permanently keep your stuff, for life | getdreambits | 3 | 2 |
| 2020-06-29 | Keep Your Stuff, for LifeBest thread | vincent_s | 355 | 109 |
| 2022-03-28 | Perkeep is your personal storage system for life: store, sync, share, back upHall induction | lorenzfx | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-09-06 | Perkeep | tosh | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-09-12 | Perkeep lets you permanently keep your stuff, for life | lopkeny12ko | 3 | 1 |
| 2025-11-12 | Perkeep – Personal storage system for lifeLatest 20+ point return | nikolay | 334 | 75 |