Chat Archive Evacuator

Export years of AI chat history to your own disk before the platform changes or vanishes

Problem

Character.AI entered bankruptcy with an asset auction pending; its built-in export takes three to four weeks and download links expire after seven days, leaving users with years of conversations scrambling for a way to keep a copy. Many users fear accumulated chat data could be wiped by a platform decision yet have no handy local export tool.

Solution

A browser extension that intercepts paginated requests on the user's chat tab, captures characters, messages, and timestamps, stores progressively in local IndexedDB, and exports to Markdown, JSON, and a standard conversation format with dedupe and integrity checks. Resumable and never uploads to a server.

Users

Heavy users of consumer AI chat products with years of conversations, plus creators who keep chat logs as source material

MVP

Support one platform (Character.AI); auto-scroll capture writing to local storage; resumable runs; Markdown and JSON export; progress and failed-item reporting

Revenue

Extension free; one-time unlock for PDF, rich-text with images, and multi-account merge; expand platform by platform as paid unlocks

Why now

Platform shutdowns and data-policy shifts create peak anxiety about data ownership; local scraping needs no platform API; one platform done well is enough to validate willingness to pay