We've built this idea three times since 2017.

The question was whether browsers should organize the web by site. We still don't think so.

The first was too dense and the second too light.

  1. The talk

    A browser that navigates data, not websites. It couldn't be built.

    Right question, nothing to ship.

  2. Vortimo

    A browser for what you'd already browsed. The deepest tool of its time.

    People opened it and closed it again.

  3. Skylight, then OSINT-Tool

    The opposite bet: no install, no database, no learning curve.

    It couldn't hold a real investigation.

  4. Ubikron

    The depth of the first, the ease of the second, and a real server underneath.

    This one stuck.

The full case file, with the 2017 slides

Twenty-eight empty tins of instant coffee stacked in a pyramid against white tiles
sha256 08729e0c…33051c

Ubikron so far: 28 tins of coffee.

Every tin we've emptied since we started building it in 2023, and that's just from South Africa.

The three people who make Ubikron, on a street lined with trees
All three of us.sha256 a3099923…d262f9

Three people, no suits, and nobody telling us to make it worse.

We answer to the people who use Ubikron. That's also why we'll tell you when it's not for you.

Roelof TemminghSensePost, then Maltego, now Ubikron