Big Tech killed 7 tools used by 500 million people. I rebuilt all of them in one platform.
Here's what they murdered:
🔴 Google Reader (2013) — 30M users. Killed because it didn't fit an ad spreadsheet.
🔴 Yahoo Pipes (2015) — 90,000 active pipes. The original no-code automation. Gone overnight.
🔴 Yahoo Answers (2021) — 200M users. Replaced by nothing.
🔴 DMOZ (2017) — 5M sites, 92,000 volunteer editors, 19 years of work. Bulldozed silently.
🔴 Yahoo Directory (2014) — The original internet navigation layer. Dead.
🔴 Delicious (2017) — 5.3M users. Sold 3 times then killed.
🔴 iGoogle (2013) — Tens of millions of daily users. No replacement ever came.
Nothing replaced any of them. A decade later people still beg for a Google Reader clone.
So I built it. All 7. In one platform. Called SENTINEL.
✅ Website monitoring (hosted Uptime Kuma — finally)
✅ AI RSS reader (what Google Reader would have become)
✅ Curated web directory (DMOZ rebuilt)
✅ AI Q&A (Yahoo Answers with local LLMs)
✅ No-code automation (Yahoo Pipes successor)
✅ Bookmarking (Delicious replacement)
✅ Personal dashboard (iGoogle revival)
The infrastructure part that will matter to this community:
- Runs on my own bare metal server (64-core Xeon, 383GB RAM)
- AI runs locally via Ollama — Qwen 2.5 14B, Llama 3 8B
- No AWS. No OpenAI. No Vercel. No data leaving my servers.
- PostgreSQL + pgvector + Apache AGE
- Zero ads. Zero tracking. Free tier is genuinely free forever.
Launched today. 3.2M sites already indexed (seeded from the DMOZ dump).
🔗 https://sentinel.oblivionzone.com
Free to use. No credit card. Tear it apart — I want honest feedback.
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