About.

Just a developer who cares about safety.

I'm Myrhex, an independent developer. For as long as I can remember I've been pulled toward the same question from every direction: how do you actually keep people safe? Safe from surveillance, safe from leaks, safe from products that quietly turn the user into the thing being sold.

I was twelve when I first opened Tor, trying to understand how a person could move through the internet without leaving obvious traces behind. That curiosity never left. It just grew up alongside me, into privacy tools and, more recently, local AI that can do real work on hardware you own instead of someone else's servers.

I'm not a corporation with a growth team and a data pipeline. I'm one person with a strong opinion about how software should treat you, and enough stubbornness to keep shipping it. Searxly is that opinion written in code: a browser that runs your search on your own machine, keeps your keys in your own hands, and never asks you to trust a promise you can't verify.

One question on an iPhone.

The idea that became Searxly arrived this past January. I was on my phone, scrolling through ordinary Safari results, when a question landed with unusual clarity: why can I not have all of this locally?

I had watched local AI models become genuinely capable, and I kept hitting the same contradiction in tools that called themselves private. Almost all of them still sent your searches to someone else's servers. The marketing said privacy; the architecture said otherwise. That gap bothered me enough to do something about it.

Around then I found SearXNG, a free and open metasearch engine that queries many sources, strips out tracking, and returns combined results without keeping your data. It had existed for years, yet no consumer browser had made it feel native. That was the opening. I ran it locally, tested it against real queries, and the results held up. The name followed from its roots: Searx from the project it's built on, and ly for what you actually do with it. Search. You can read how we made it run natively inside Searxly in more depth.

One person, and machines that help.

Searxly is a small operation by design. Day to day, the work is done by me alongside AI that works with me: local AI models running privately on my own hardware, and Grok Build, the coding agent from xAI, for the heavier lifting. It moved me through the hard parts faster than I could have alone, from managing the local search instance to wiring the pieces together cleanly. Getting the app off the ground also meant joining the Apple Developer Program, which @bankrbot helped make possible. The direction, the judgment, and the responsibility stay mine. The AI is leverage, never the author.