My wife and I continue to work on Uruky, a simpler and cheaper Kagi alternative, based in the EU [1].

Since last month we’ve stabilized the search UI/UX and have 5 search providers you can choose from and sort as you prefer.

We entered May with over 50 paying customers and have recently launched Uruky Site Search [2] (for website owners, this effectively is our own search index and crawler, which we’ll be bringing into Uruky soon as another search provider option)!

Customers really enjoy the simple UI (search doesn’t require JavaScript) and search personalization (from choosing the providers to the domain boosting and exclusion). We also have hashbangs (like "!g", "!d", or “!e”) when something doesn’t quite give you what you’d expect, though.

You can see the main differences between Kagi, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, etc. and Uruky in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get a copy of the source code!

Our main challenge right now is outreach because we want to do it ethically, and it’s hard to find communities or places to sponsor which are privacy-focused and don’t require €5k+ deals. Ideas are welcome! We’ve been sponsoring a project per month (Qubes OS, The Tor Project, and Hister so far), with our limited budget of ~$100 / month.

Because of bots and abuse there isn’t a free trial easily available, but if you’re a human and you’d like to try it for a week for free, reach out with your account number and we’ll set that up!

Thanks.

[1] https://uruky.com

[2] https://uruky.com/site-search