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Give
Up
This requires less paying attention to negative emotion and more “water off my back”.
Tweak it. tweak it some more.
Focus on the goal, notably one tiny sub-goal at a time.
Good luck, entrepreneurial spirit is a tough beast to attain.
Whatever you stake on,
NEVER
EVER
GIVE
UP
The site has just been taken offline by Drew due to the unfortunate start. I hope we can come back to this once the project has been properly launched, although Drew notes that he is "really unhappy with how the roll-out went" and that "my motivation for this project has evaporated" [1]. Thanks for all the work Drew, I hope you guys manage to come to a conclusion that you are satisfied with! [1]: https://paste.sr.ht/…
[edit: nevermind, found it easy enough. Seems to be Go and PostgreSQL with the RUM extension]
One meta-thought, I think projects like this are surfacing something interesting: The underlying technology to make a pretty good search engine is no longer especially difficult for programmers or for server. This is potentially a very good thing, as it means the end of the Google era.
I can imagine a future that is almost a blast from the past, where there are a lot of different search engines, those engines are curated differently, and while none of them index the entire Internet, that’s what makes them valuable and better than Google (which I think cannot defeat spam).
I’m trying to think of a historical parallel, Where are some service used to be very difficult to provide and therefore could only effectively be done by a single natural monopoly, but technology progressed and opened up the playing field, breaking the monopoly. Television has some similarities. Perhaps radio vs podcasting. What others?
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Yeah, I agree. I was certainly underwhelmed with my first small search engine. It was so bad even I didn't want to use it - and I had spent months and months on it. Still, most projects aren't a search engine. I see people put high expectations on how things will go and often it's just really hard to realize some of those hopes. Sometimes you just have to take what you can get and iterate. Don't give up.
I think, with search engines, it's best to work with them for the problem domain. It is a fractal of interesting programming problems touching upon pretty much every area of CS, programming and programming-adjacent topics, and take whatever comes out of it as an unexpected bonus.
Too bad this came out before Drew intended, and I hope that after having a weekend to rest he’ll feel his motivation recover. One meta-thought, I think projects like this are surfacing something interesting: The underlying technology to make a pretty good search engine is no longer especially difficult for programmers or for server. This is potentially a very good thing, as it means the end of the Google era. I can i…
If you don’t want something disclosed , don’t disclose it.
Only way for three people to keep a secret is if two of them are dead.
A thing is in the world. Let it be in the world. Harness the collective power and focus it into a force multiplier.
Or don’t.
Quite passive aggressive if you ask me. Boo-boo someone shared your project before you were “ready”. If you don’t want something disclosed , don’t disclose it. Only way for three people to keep a secret is if two of them are dead. A thing is in the world. Let it be in the world. Harness the collective power and focus it into a force multiplier. Or don’t.
Good morning, HN. Please note that SearchHut is not done or in a presentable state right now, and those who were in the know were asked not to share it. Alas. I had planned to announce this next week, after we had more time to build up a bigger index, add more features, fix up the 404's and stub pages, do more testing, and so on, so if you notice any rough edges, this is why. I went ahead and polished up the announce…
I think it would be great if we had Code Forge index to search uniquely. In this index are only the myriad of code hosting sites around the internet - shared hosting like gitlab, github, sourcehut, sourceforge, codeberg, and all the project instances like the kernel.org, GNU Savannah, GNOME, KDE, BSD, etc. Probably hundreds of them out there, and allow people to submit their own self-hosted Gitea/Gitlab/sr.ht/etc. in…
I don't recall if it supported SourceForge and GitHub (2008) but it certainly included gzipped tarballs which were popular and prevalent at the time.
Quite passive aggressive if you ask me. Boo-boo someone shared your project before you were “ready”. If you don’t want something disclosed , don’t disclose it. Only way for three people to keep a secret is if two of them are dead. A thing is in the world. Let it be in the world. Harness the collective power and focus it into a force multiplier. Or don’t.
Where did you read aggression?
Quite passive aggressive if you ask me. Boo-boo someone shared your project before you were “ready”. If you don’t want something disclosed , don’t disclose it. Only way for three people to keep a secret is if two of them are dead. A thing is in the world. Let it be in the world. Harness the collective power and focus it into a force multiplier. Or don’t.