Hey Product Hunt & thanks @chrismessina for hunting!
We've been in alpha for about a year and learned a lot from the community. This is a culmination of those efforts.
Surf is an AI Notebook that brings the web and your files directly into your stream of thought. Use any tab, webpage, YouTube video, PDF and more to generate your notes. Surf is built to be personal & open. Data is stored locally in open formats, core code is open source, and it's open to use different AI models (including local).
📹 YouTube Notes: visit a YouTube video and ask a question
🗎 PDF Notes: open a PDF and ask a question
🟪 Create an applet: use the "app generation" tool and ask for an app
🔍 Notes that search: use the "web search" tool and ask a question with "search" in it
Features:
📘 Multi-media Library & Notebooks: Store & organize your favorite YouTube videos, webpages, PDFs, photos & more, all in one place on your local machine.
📝 Smart Notes: generate rich multi-media notes from your media, from a single tab to a full notebook
🖥️ App Generation: create applets without writing code, that help you visualize or understand charts, tables, and diagrams
🖖 Split View & Sidebar: open & navigate your Library using tabs, splits, and the sidebar
🌲 Offline Mode: use your notes and view much of your media offline
Open & Personal
Surf is built to be open & personal in service of the user.
📖 Open Source: Surf's core is open source on GitHub and is designed to work without Deta's servers
💾 Open & Local Data: the data you store in Surf is stored on your machine in open formats
🧠 Open AI: use AI models of your choice, bring your own key, set up a custom model (including local LLMs)
Looking forward to your feedback!
About Deta Surf (Beta) on Product Hunt
“AI Notebooks for the internet (Open Source)”
Deta Surf (Beta) launched on Product Hunt on October 22nd, 2025 and earned 156 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. Surf is an AI notebook that brings your files and the web directly into your stream of thought.
On the analytics side, Deta Surf (Beta) competes within Productivity, Surfing and Writing — topics that collectively have 712.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Deta Surf (Beta) performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Deta Surf (Beta)?
Deta Surf (Beta) was hunted by Chris Messina. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Chris Messina
Hey Product Hunt & thanks @chrismessina for hunting!
We've been in alpha for about a year and learned a lot from the community. This is a culmination of those efforts.
Surf is an AI Notebook that brings the web and your files directly into your stream of thought. Use any tab, webpage, YouTube video, PDF and more to generate your notes. Surf is built to be personal & open. Data is stored locally in open formats, core code is open source, and it's open to use different AI models (including local).
Make sure to check us out on GitHub: https://github.com/deta/surf! (and smash that 🌟)
Things to try:
📹 YouTube Notes: visit a YouTube video and ask a question
🗎 PDF Notes: open a PDF and ask a question
🟪 Create an applet: use the "app generation" tool and ask for an app
🔍 Notes that search: use the "web search" tool and ask a question with "search" in it
Features:
📘 Multi-media Library & Notebooks: Store & organize your favorite YouTube videos, webpages, PDFs, photos & more, all in one place on your local machine.
📝 Smart Notes: generate rich multi-media notes from your media, from a single tab to a full notebook
🖥️ App Generation: create applets without writing code, that help you visualize or understand charts, tables, and diagrams
🖖 Split View & Sidebar: open & navigate your Library using tabs, splits, and the sidebar
🌲 Offline Mode: use your notes and view much of your media offline
Open & Personal
Surf is built to be open & personal in service of the user.
📖 Open Source: Surf's core is open source on GitHub and is designed to work without Deta's servers
💾 Open & Local Data: the data you store in Surf is stored on your machine in open formats
🧠 Open AI: use AI models of your choice, bring your own key, set up a custom model (including local LLMs)
Looking forward to your feedback!