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rushingcreek

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About rushingcreek

Building something new

Previously co-founder & CEO at Phind (YC S22)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelroyzen

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49073821

    Many people are talking about price, but I think that the most interesting aspect of this release, by far, is customization. Any startup can download the weights, tinker with them,…

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    Comment #48407793

    This seems like AI washing to me. If the company was already doing well, the AI investments should allow it to grow faster and therefore still be able to give employees bonuses. Th…

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    Comment #47327647

    Very cool, congrats! I'm curious how you were able to achieve this given Apple's many undocumented APIs. Does it use private Neural Engine APIs or fully public Metal APIs? Either w…

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    Comment #46886397

    One major point I haven’t seen mentioned is maintenance. Nvidia GPUs, particularly H100s, have a failure rate orders of magnitudes higher than traditional CPU-only hardware. I myse…

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    Comment #46771085

    Greptile is a great product and I hope you succeed. However, I disagree that independence is a competitive advantage. If it’s true that having a “firewall” between the coding agent…

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    Comment #46196279

    Congrats on the launch! Definitely a problem I’ve run into myself.

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    Comment #46148268

    Thank you, will take a look!

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    Comment #46143736

    Thanks for the specific example -- I'll take a look at this. In the meantime, you can use old.phind.com if you still want the old experience.

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    Comment #46141344

    I hear you, but why not use something like Google AI Mode or AI Overviews for that? That's pretty hard to beat for simple questions in terms of speed, especially for one-liners.

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    Comment #46141311

    thanks for reporting!

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    Comment #46141301

    sorry to hear that -- could you please elaborate?

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    Comment #46141076

    Oh wow, yeah this one is pretty funny. My attempt gave more reasonable results: https://www.phind.com/search/twinnings-extra-spicy-tea-b1742... .

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    Comment #46140789

    What type of apps would you like to see it make? How does this version of Phind work for it? And thanks for sticking with us :)

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    Comment #46140667

    A hypothesis here is that well-crafted UI helps you understand/see options for what you don't yet know. For example, here's an example for a "day trip plan in Bristol" that contain…

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    Comment #46140502

    Thanks for the feedback! The model you use in Phind makes a big impact. Claude 4.5 Opus in Phind gave a better answer than Phind Fast here: https://www.phind.com/search/build-an-in…

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    Comment #46139859

    Yep, we heard that feedback loud and clear; the diagrams are a lot less annoying in this new version.

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    Comment #46139288

    Thanks for the feedback, this is helpful!

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    Comment #46139142

    Thank you, great to hear :)

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    Comment #46138869

    hey, sorry to hear that. web search is on by default, but we had some teething issues with it in the last hour. it should be fully fixed now. can you send some links that failed?

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    Comment #46138780

    Thanks for the feedback, and I agree that it is very much early days for this product category. To be clear, our goal is to make the software specific for an audience: you. What's …

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    Comment #46138700

    I agree that this answer was a bit wacky. Phind Fast is the fast and free model. Selecting Phind Large, GPT-5.1, and Claude models would be better for a modeling task like this.

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    Comment #46138511

    The loading issues should be fixed now (as of 11am PST). Apologies for this -- one of our search providers went down right as we launched :(

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    Comment #46138072

    Thank you! There is a share button in the upper-right corner of the answer page screen :)

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    Comment #46138065

    Thanks, and great question. The custom Phind models are really key here -- off-the-shelf models (even SOTA models from big labs) are slow and error-prone when it comes to generatin…

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    Comment #46137826

    Interesting -- could you try with a vanilla browser (no extensions or VPN) please? Preferably Chrome or Safari.