Swatantrata

A new-tab Chrome Extension that carries a piece of history

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Prabhakar, a product designer from India. Swatantrata is a side project I've been building for the last two weeks. Most countries remember their independence through about twenty names. India is no different; the same faces on the same posters. But the movement ran for ninety years and involved millions of people, and only a handful of them made it into the textbook. Swatantrata puts one of them on your new tab. Every time you open a tab, you meet one forgotten figure — a tribal leader who resisted British land seizures, a teenage girl who carried the flag until she was shot, a poet who kept writing verse on his way to the gallows. Their story, their sacrifice, and, where possible, their own words, on a card designed to look like something you'd pull out of an archive rather than a webpage. What it does → Replaces your new tab with a full-screen historical card → 50 figures and incidents so far, more to follow soon → A Next button, if you want another one instead of waiting for the next tab On permissions: Does not track or collect your data. Just history. Why I built it: as I started reading on my own, I figured that so many people and incidents that shaped the Indian freedom struggle and contributed equally, if not more, are hardly remembered today. It's free and always will be. One thing I'd love from this thread: who's a forgotten figure from your country's history that more people should know about? I'd genuinely like to read about them.