BMM

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A personal bookmark manager web app built on Next.js with tagging and AI-assisted organisation, with Chinese and English interfaces.

Adopt it when

You want a Next.js bookmark app you can deploy to Vercel with your own Postgres.

Watch out

Small project, quiet since June 2026.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

TypeScript, Next.js, React, Drizzle and PostgreSQL

How established

Established: started 2 years ago, latest release legacy-next14.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: BMM → TypeScript → Go → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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