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Micro

Show HN: Micro – apps without ads, algorithms or tracking

40 AI Score
Show_hn other Added Mar 26, 2026

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Total Funding
$0
Last Round
$0

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For over 10 years I&#x27;ve been trying to accomplish something that took Claude Code and a lot of failure to realise. We need alternatives to big tech and we&#x27;re not working hard enough to make that happen. In an era of addiction, usury and exploitation it&#x27;s now time we seriously consider alternatives. Proton and the like worked on privacy focused individual services at a pain stakingly slow pace. Maybe for good reason. But it was also in an era pre AI. 10 years ago I was convinced the super app model would work. And that a platform needed to exist to facilitate that. Today I realised the tech doesn&#x27;t matter, the idea and execution from the top down does. I put aside my technical perfectionism to try pull together a solution to some of the problems that plagued my own life with tech addiction and I rewrote and threw away this thing multiple times over the years pre AI and after. I burned VC funding, I burned bridges, I burned community trust in an open source project. But it was all in the pursuit of something I was compelled needed to exist. I use this on a daily basis probably 10+ times a day. Every person has different use cases but for me what&#x27;s key is to try pull all the digital daily habits in one place and then be able to build on that. I can&#x27;t replace my own google usage for mail yet but I also saw a need for something in between by private email and a work email.<p>There&#x27;s so much more I could say but essentially Micro and the app Mu (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mu.xyz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mu.xyz</a>) is the culmination of many years of work. And it&#x27;s also open source. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;micro&#x2F;mu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;micro&#x2F;mu</a>. Please provide feedback. Please tear it apart. Please poke holes in my theory. I&#x27;m not looking for hype. I really do just think we need an alternative to big tech.

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