💡 SaaS Idea: WebScribe Proxy – Personal Web Recorder & Annotator

A browser/OS-level proxy that records every visited page for offline access and enables on-page annotations, highlights, and citations. Team mode turns captured pages into a searchable shared knowledge base with SSO, retention policies, and compliance exports. Competes with Memex, ArchiveBox, Readwise Reader, and Webrecorder; researchers and teams will pay for reliability, collaboration, and compliance.

Platform: web

Why it's a good idea?

1. Problem & Existing Interest

Researchers, journalists, lawyers and knowledge-worker teams routinely need to (1) keep permanent copies of sources that may disappear/change (link rot) and (2) attach highlights / notes that stay anchored to the exact paragraph. A quick scan of tech forums shows recurring requests:

  • “Best way to archive webpages for offline reading?” (Reddit r/technology, r/academia, r/researchchemicals)
  • “How do I share annotated web articles with my team?” (HN and r/ObsidianMD posts) These threads are typically answered with a mish-mash of tools (SingleFile, Hypothesis, Readwise, Pocket, Zotero) – indicating no single product nails the workflow end-to-end.

2. Keyword Validation (SEMRush/KeywordTool.io sample)

Keyword Volume Difficulty
web page archiving 1 600 32
web archiving tools 590 23
web annotation tool 260 19
save webpages offline 90 22
annotate web pages 50 14
how to download a webpage as pdf 2 400 23
Many long-tail variants (<100 vol) exist around “team web knowledge base”, “share annotated articles”, etc. Several head terms are >500 monthly searches with keyword diff...
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