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103 points owenfar | 4 comments | | HN request time: 0.204s | source

Hello, I'm Owen, co-founder of Sava OS.

I think you've heard this a thousand times by now; "We spend most of our time on the web browser, yet nothing has changed." And then a "revolutionary" product comes out that puts our links & tabs collapsed on the side, with some extra features. Magical, right :)?

Well, we tried a lot of these products, and we also tried building one ourselves about 8years ago. But we felt like no UI can handle the same kind of organization our desktop can, and that's when the idea first came to our mind ~5years ago. For the past year, we worked on the side to build the MVP you see today. But along these years, a lot of thoughts kept popping up, and that's why this product has an OS in it's name (it's still cooking :).

Unlike other desktop-like products that are accessible on the browser, Sava OS is not only built and made to run natively on the web browser, but it actually has some useful features to help with your browsing management - and that's only the beginning.

There's still a lot to consider when it comes to shaping a modern, desktop-like UI that meets today's needs.. We’ve got some exciting ideas and aim to go beyond the traditional approach.

We would really love to hear your take on this.

1. kjksf ◴[] No.41872145[source]
If you asked me to login with Google and got my email and other info, then don't ask me to also pick a password. Bait & switch and I won't stand for it.
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3. owenfar ◴[] No.41872660[source]
I understand your pain, but this is the best we could do right now to be able to implement the privacy features we mention on the website. Think about it as MFA by default, and Google is a super simple way to pass the first method.

Links & tabs contain a lot of personal data, and I'm sick of hearing "Encryption at rest", while not knowing that all the admins can still see everything.

It sucks I know, but at least the encryption & anonymity are rock solid.

We'll definitely try to find other solutions in the future.. and by the way, passwords don't need to be complicated ;) There's no restrictions

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4. ferbivore ◴[] No.41873032[source]
But this is a web app, so the encryption happens in a blob of JavaScript that you can update at any time. Users still need to trust you as much as they would if the data was encrypted server-side. You could maybe claim "application-level" "rock solid" encryption if your app was entirely implemented within the extension, so users could at least pick one version of it to trust, but it doesn't look like that's what you did?