Show HN: Kinic – A Portable AI Memory Store You Own (Farewell AI Amnesia)
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Jul 9, 2025 14:30
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Kinic is a new tool that lets users create, own, and control their own portable AI memory stores, addressing privacy and data ownership concerns by using cryptography and local storage rather than relying on company-owned servers. It enables users to build personal knowledge bases for AI agents, share or even rent these memory stores securely using zero-knowledge proofs, and keep sensitive data private. This approach challenges the current model of proprietary AI memory silos and could foster more secure, user-controlled AI applications.
Hey HN, I built Kinic (https://www.kinic.io), a simple but powerful way to create, own, and share your AI Memory. Think of it as “Plaid for AI Memory” or a personal knowledge base for your AI agents that you control. It uses cryptography and WebAuthn with a WASM based vector DB for memory context. Own your own 'AI memory silo' - is one way I talk about it. Right now, most AI tools forget everything when the chat ends or lock your memory in their black boxes (company owned server silo). Also there is some data I would never want to feed to big LLM providers, personal, health related etc — that could still be very useful with AI. With Kinic, you can: 1. Build portable AI memory stores on any topic (local knowledge, hobbies, niche expertise). Good for research . 2. You will be able to share or rent your memories to others while proving their quality or relevance without revealing sensitive data (using ZK proofs). *I may want to rent a curated list from a trusted expert or friend. Or date