I Rebuilt Google Reader ,Yahoo Pipes , DMOZ and other tools Big Tech

Source: Dev.to

Tools that were discontinued

• Google Reader (2013) – 30 M 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) – 200 M users. Replaced by nothing.
• DMOZ (2017) – 5 M sites, 92 000 volunteer editors, 19 years of work. Bulldozed silently.
• Yahoo Directory (2014) – The original internet navigation layer. Dead.
• Delicious (2017) – 5.3 M users. Sold three times then killed.
• iGoogle (2013) – Tens of millions of daily users. No replacement ever came.

Nothing replaced any of them, and a decade later people still beg for a Google Reader clone.

Sentinel – a single platform that rebuilds all seven

• Website monitoring – hosted Uptime Kuma.
• AI RSS reader – what Google Reader could 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.

Infrastructure (relevant to the community)

• Runs on a bare‑metal server (64‑core Xeon, 383 GB RAM).
• AI runs locally via Ollama – Qwen 2.5 14B, Llama 3 8B.
• No AWS, OpenAI, Vercel, or external data transfer.
• PostgreSQL + pgvector + Apache AGE.
• Zero ads, zero tracking. Free tier is genuinely free forever.

Launch

• Launched today with 3.2 M sites already indexed (seeded from the DMOZ dump).
• Free to use – no credit card required.

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Feel free to test it and provide honest feedback.