Martijn Verbove
Curiosity, put to work.
Founder, designer, and builder. Currently building Doczen.
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2025–present
Doczen
Turning operational knowledge into useful AI systems, one workflow at a time.
Read more ↗2026
Gymlab
A fitness-planning experiment built around a problem I had myself.
Read more ↗2026
Handle
A reference book built from the ideas scattered across an X account.
2026
Equimi
An iPhone experiment for organizing horse videos and sharing selected clips.
2022–2025
BnBerry
Hospitality technology connecting hotels to Airbnb.
2020–2022
Webscape
Document intelligence built from the ambition behind History Search.
2014–2020
History Search
Full-text search for browsing history.
2014
A search box for everything I had seen
It all started with a simple Chrome extension that saved your browsing history in full-text.
Early days
Websites by day. History Search by night.
Broke and determined, I started a devshop with classmates in Rotterdam.
Pyrean years
The background that became an advantage
But I grew up around horses. Knew the industry inside-out.
Before Webscape
The privacy detour
I was obsessed with privacy: everything had to be stored offline.
2021
From finding documents to asking questions
Integrated OpenAI so people could ask questions about their documents instead of just searching through them.
2022
A company interrupted
Then Russia-Ukraine war erupted.
2022
A new chapter in Portugal
I moved to Portugal and randomly ran into someone I'd met years before in Kyiv.
2012–2018
Pyrean
Web development, FPGA computing and immersion cooling.
Project archive
MaterialVV
MaterialVV
@verbove
Twitter
The public notebook behind the projects.
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LinkedIn
Projects, experience, and connections.
Read more ↗7 Apr 2026
How humans and AI get work done together
A field guide to the context, memory, and working habits that make human–AI collaboration useful.
Read more ↗30 Apr 2026
Point agents at the work between the work
The best use cases close a loop someone is handling by hand: gathering context, updating a ticket, or drafting the next step.
Read more ↗9 Jun 2026
Start with a problem you know personally
How Daniel and I arrived at Doczen from different sides of the same problem: knowledge scattered across people and teams.
Read more ↗29 Apr 2026
Learn by building something real
Choosing a real problem and putting the result in front of people is a better teacher than trying to predict the next essential skill.
Read more ↗25 Jul 2026
A knowledge base that keeps its sources
Building Memex around plain files, immutable sources, and citations—so an evolving AI wiki never loses where an idea came from.
Read more ↗12 Mar 2026
Small interfaces make better agent tools
Why I wrap tools in composable commands, with skills as the reasoning layer and a command line for execution.
Read more ↗8 Mar 2026
The browser is a programmable workspace
Turning the bookmark bar into a toolbox of small, personal workflows—and a practical way to build your own.
Read more ↗26 Sept 2022
A big problem is not the same as demand
Before building the solution, find out whether people are prepared to pay to solve the problem.
Read more ↗17 Sept 2022
Price for the people who see the value
Find what the product is worth to people who understand it. Then help more of the right people grasp that value.
Read more ↗30 Sept 2022
Build for the next iteration
Software rewards the ability to investigate and adapt more than the ability to imagine everything correctly at the start.
Read more ↗5 Oct 2022
Let the story create the questions
A pitch becomes clearer when the story invites questions and answers them as they arise.
Read more ↗1 Oct 2022
Listening means letting something land
Before jumping to the logic of a response, notice the effect of what the other person is telling you.
Read more ↗18 Sept 2022
Find focus in the details
An approach to distraction: give more attention to the task in front of you, rather than fighting every passing thought.
Read more ↗12 Sept 2022
Start with how you show up
Becoming a more pleasant person starts with yourself—and still leaves room to respond honestly and thoughtfully.
Read more ↗1 Dec 2025
Doczen re-imagines commodity enterprises, in the age of AI
Seedcamp on backing Doczen and bringing AI into the operational work of commodity businesses.
Read more ↗2 Jan 2023
Search for anything you need more than once
An interview about the journey from History Search to Webscape, and building with a team in Ukraine.
Read more ↗2018 awards
And the Golden Kitty Award Winners are…
History Search won the Lifehack category in Product Hunt’s 2018 Golden Kitty Awards.
Read more ↗19 Nov 2018
Product Hunt 101: How To Launch Your Product From Early Idea To Revenue
My practical guide to positioning, preparation, launch day, and what comes after—based on launching History Search.
Read more ↗17 Jul 2019
‘History Search’ Ensures You Never Lose Web Pages or Documents
A product spotlight from Entrepreneur Store, published by News-Times, on finding previously visited pages and documents.
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History Search in CNET
Stephen Shankland’s coverage of History Search and its browser extension.
Read more ↗17 Oct 2018
De mens achter: online archief History Search
A Dutch profile of the person behind History Search, by Jasper Meeuwissen.
Read more ↗7 Nov 2018
Deze startup wil de persoonlijke versie van Google worden
An interview on building a personal search engine, bootstrapping the business, and giving people access to their own data.
Read more ↗28 Feb 2018
10 of the Best Upcoming Pages on Product Hunt
History Search appeared in Jordan Gonen’s selection of promising upcoming Product Hunt pages.
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