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Re: Phind.com Is Shutting Down

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Post by foundarium »

minimaxir wrote: post #3

That's a surprise given they did a Launch HN 40 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137548

That "launch" was when they introduced a feature that made their service unusable.

I wonder if they had stuck with the unintrusive UI if they would have made it.

From the outside it looks like they would have benefitted from having Bill Hicks on their staff to answer whatever project manager was riding the designers to keep justifying their paychecks by adding more and more noisy features.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO-fq8Feqfo

Re: Phind.com Is Shutting Down

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Post by nicce »

minimaxir wrote: post #3

That's a surprise given they did a Launch HN 40 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137548

Maybe they have come to hard conclusion that it is unsustainable without Google/Meta/Microsoft level funding. Model prices just keep increasing while old models are removed. Subscription is not enough?

Re: Phind.com Is Shutting Down

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Post by usefulposter »

minimaxir wrote: post #3

That's a surprise given they did a Launch HN 40 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137548

>With Phind 3, we create a "personal internet" for you

>We think that this current "chat" era of AI is akin to the era of text-only interfaces in computers.

>The new Phind Fast model is based on GLM-4.5-Air while the new Phind Large model is based on GLM 4.6.

So... vaporware that could no longer compete with the big three frontier LLM firms?

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