Surfer
Open-source digital footprint exporter
Surfer launched on August 15, 2024 with 67 votes, #732 of 5,471 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
What it does
Surfer is a free and open-source digital footprint exporter, designed to centralize all your data from various platforms into a single folder. We believe that personal data centralization is the key to enabling truly useful, universal personal assistants.
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