What does Kullish do?
Kullish searches the web for current and historical discussions about webpage links and presents a single
feed of all user comments and threaded discussions in reverse-chronological order. That's it. No user
tracking, no algorithms tampering with your feed to fuel fear and outrage in order to maximise
"engagement", no clunky Javascript slowing your device to a crawl. Just good old-fashioned
HTML and common-sense presentation.
How can I support Kullish?
Kullish is a one-person operation which I paid to host out of my own pocket and offered to users for free
between 2020-2025.
Unfortunately, this is no longer possible in the age of AI web crawlers.
If you have been a happy user of Kullish these past years, I hope you'll pay for the $60/year
subscription to continue using it.
If you never got to experience Kullish while it was free, you can check out an
example search.
AI Companies: I have a proposition for you
For all the HTML scraping that has been happening, Kullish actually has a
full API for programmatic search and comment aggregation which returns
structured data. This has never been made publicly available for obvious
reasons.
I'm sure if you are here, you understand just how good Kullish is at collecting
genuine, high-quality user-generated text content on any topic imaginable.
For $250,000 you can buy access to a current snapshot of the Kullish codebase
to use and modify as you wish.
Run as many instances as you like, on whatever hardware you like, with whatever
changes you like.
AI Companies: I have another proposition for you
For $5,000,000, in addition to gaining access to a current snapshot of the Kullish codebase,
I will cease all future sales of codebase snapshots to other companies (and probably
take up farming).
If you are interested, once I receive a non-refundable deposit of $1,000,000, sales of
codebase snapshots will cease while the transaction is completed.
All sales will remain anonymous (unless you wish to publicize them yourselves).
If you are reading this, both offers are still on the table. Please have a recognizable
figure from your company make contact with me (kullish [at] notado [dot] app).
Why use Kullish?
- BYOL (bring your own links) because no algorithm curates your feeds better than you
- Avoid going to multiple sites to read comments on the same links
- Look past your social media bubbles and echo chambers by default
- Filter out low-effort filler comments and focus on real conversations
- Discover smaller communities discussing topics that you care about
- Spend less time refreshing mindlessly with a "cooldown" approach to discussion updates
Where does Kullish search for discussions?
Kullish currently searches for discussions on the following sites:
How does Kullish update discussions?
Discussions for links get updated relative to their popularity on Kullish on the day. This is to enforce a
"cooldown" approach that discourages the mindless refreshing that has become common since the introduction
of "pull-to-refresh" user interfaces.
The most popular links can be updated every 60 minutes, and the maximum time before any link can be updated
is 4 hours. If you want to know the exact time for a specific link, you can check the
Update-After
header returned with the link's search results page.
I don't want to copy and paste links, is there a browser extension or an
app?
If you're using a desktop or a laptop, you can right click on any page and select "Read Comments on
Kullish" with the Notado browser extension for Firefox
and Chrome.
If you're using an iOS device, you can use the Kullish
iOS Shortcut and use the "Read Comments on Kullish" Action when you press the Share icon on any
webpage in Safari.
How can I save comments for later reference?
Check out Notado, which excels at saving, tagging and
organising user generated text content.
With the Notado browser extension, you can right click "Save this comment" on any comment and then select
"Send Comment Link to Notado". On iOS you can use the Notado shortcut to do the same.
The "Save this comment" link returns a standard JSON payload, so you can write your
own browser extensions or mobile shortcuts to save comments however you want.
What does Kullish mean?
Kullish (کلش) is a Dari word that means "all of it".
