Search 400,000 quotes with AI semantic search — fully private, running in your browser with no server.
QuoteSearch is a serverless AI search engine over more than 400,000 quotes. After a one-time data download of about 98 MB, everything runs entirely in your browser: your query is embedded locally and a full cosine-similarity search runs against a quantized vector index — no network calls, no tracking, and it keeps working offline.
The trick is the offline/online split. Raw quote data from archive.org was cleaned and embedded offline into a single compact binary index, paired with a small static embedding model (model2vec's potion-base-4M). The browser loads both once and does all semantic matching client-side, so search is instant and private by construction — and the whole thing costs the author nothing to run.
Author ruidiao describes the project as completely "vibe coded" — built in about a day. It lives as a static Hugging Face Space (Python offline pipeline, zero server runtime) and remains live and searchable today.
curated by the VibeFix editors