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Martijn Verbove

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Founder. Designer. Builder.

Curiosity,
put to work.

I’m Martijn. I build products, follow interesting questions,
and try to make complex things feel simple.

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Currently building

Ideas into things.

Selected work.

Companies, products & experiments

Along the way

A few earlier chapters.

Thinking out loud.

Notes from the process.

Martijn Verbove

A little about me.

Always curious.
Usually building.

I’m a founder, designer, and builder. My work has taken me from development studios and browser tools to hospitality and AI.

These days, I’m building Doczen: turning the knowledge inside a company into systems people can actually use. Side projects are where I follow my curiosity.

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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.

2026

Gymlab

A fitness-planning experiment built around a problem I had myself.

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.

Martijn Verbove

LinkedIn

Projects, experience, and connections.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

5 Oct 2022

Let the story create the questions

A pitch becomes clearer when the story invites questions and answers them as they arise.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2018 awards

And the Golden Kitty Award Winners are…

History Search won the Lifehack category in Product Hunt’s 2018 Golden Kitty Awards.

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.

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.

From the archive

History Search in CNET

Stephen Shankland’s coverage of History Search and its browser extension.

17 Oct 2018

De mens achter: online archief History Search

A Dutch profile of the person behind History Search, by Jasper Meeuwissen.

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.

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.