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ndessaigne

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About ndessaigne

YC Group Partner. Co-founder of https://www.algolia.com (YC W14)

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    Show HN: Voice Overlay for iOS and Android Apps

    We're seeing at Algolia a lot of developers implementing speech to text in their mobile apps, but didn't see much in the way of tooling to help them do it. So we set out to fix it,…

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    We already provide analytics about the searches performed on your indices. However, we focus on user-facing search use-cases. We don't recommend using Algolia for processing your l…

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    Thanks :) Actually, we intend to continue growing the company in Paris too. The product is developed there.

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    30% on average in 2014, lower today. Sorry we don't disclose specifics (at least for now). Happy to share experience offline however.

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    Thanks! Pretty good guess, you're close :)

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    Comment #8394382

    This free plan is available from our pricing page: https://www.algolia.com/pricing#Hacker

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    Sorting by points is the default

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    Yes, we already existed before operating the new HN search. We did it as a way to participate to the community and of course it's good for our visibility. The hnsearch.com domain i…

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    Sure, happy to help!

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    We usually recommend to perform one query (one API call) per keystroke starting from the first one. The actual number of calls depends a lot on the use-case. Our ranking takes into…

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    Can you tell us what's terrible? We are always eager to improve it.

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    Great feedback. Your UI comments in particular are insightful. It's impossible to get something that pleases everyone, but we'll try to get it closer to current HN design in the ne…

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    Comment #7126320

    1. You're right, it doesn't fit your use-case. We'll implement a strict ordering in the next iteration.