Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
Documents that run like apps Capsule packs your entire app — UI, data, and everything — into a single portable .capsule file. Download for macOS Try Web Preview Download for other platforms ↓ Summer Recipes.capsule Shared via WhatsApp Chloe Summer Recipes.capsule Try Recipe Book .capsule in Web Preview → AI APP GENERATION Generate & update apps using AI Capsule turns simple prompts into complete, self-contained desktop applications. No cloud servers, no databases to configure, no complex build setups.
- ▪Documents that run like apps Capsule packs your entire app — UI, data, and everything — into a single portable .capsule file.
- ▪Download for macOS Try Web Preview Download for other platforms ↓ Summer Recipes.capsule Shared via WhatsApp Chloe Summer Recipes.capsule Try Recipe Book .capsule in Web Preview → AI APP GENERATION Generate & update apps using AI Capsule tu
- ▪No cloud servers, no databases to configure, no complex build setups.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
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| Original publisher | Capsule |
| Canonical URL | https://withcapsule.app/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:31:40 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-15T14:16:52.483Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-15T14:16:52.483Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 6WloKzXQsfHb · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Documents that run like apps Capsule packs your entire app — UI, data, and everything — into a single portable .capsule file. No cloud. No accounts. Just share it. Download for macOS Try Web Preview Download for other platforms ↓ Summer Recipes.capsule Shared via WhatsApp Chloe Summer Recipes.capsule Try Recipe Book .capsule in Web Preview → AI APP GENERATION Generate & update apps using AI Capsule turns simple prompts into complete, self-contained desktop applications. No cloud servers, no databases to configure, no complex build setups. 01 / PROMPT YOUR IDEA Describe what you need Describe the application, layout, or features you want to build. 02 / INSTANT CAPSULE APP Self-contained output Generates a complete single-file .capsule container with HTML UI, schema, and local SQLite data.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Capsule.
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