If you require to have an account to try the web search out (which you have all the right in the world, it's your service), tell us before we enter the service and type in our search. This comes around as sneaky. You should be clear upfront.
Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
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#122If you require to have an account to try the web search out (which you have all the right in the world, it's your service), tell us before we enter the service and type in our search. This comes around as sneaky. You should be clear upfront.
why do people complain so much, just be happier
Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
#123If you require to have an account to try the web search out (which you have all the right in the world, it's your service), tell us before we enter the service and type in our search. This comes around as sneaky. You should be clear upfront.
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#124I did one search with 4 criteria, then added the two free columns, and at this point i had spent 750 of my 1000 free credits. The next tier being $49 with only 8000 credits, which means only 10 searches a month.
The search I did was super useful, and I would love to use the product, and reccomend it to my coworkers. But the pricing is what stops me.
Best of luck. I'll probably use it once a month if I can remember :)
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
> (try Github repo search, it's quite good :D) Since you called it out, I gave it a whirl: https://websets.exa.ai/api/trpc/getPreview?batch=1&input=%7B... and it did nothing to the page at all, choosing to still show the "Full-stack engineers in SF that are great at design, and have worked at an AI startup" example table I'm open to the fact that "I'm holding it wrong" or whatever, but the response payload included t…
The API response you were looking at is the preview search, the full search linked below found 25 matches in a minute. > github repos that are implementations of ReBAC authorization servers https://websets.exa.ai/cmadcu6st004fmg0iofbytsfh
Anyway, two things which may interest you:
- please don't reimplement in whatever whizbang JS framework-o-the-day; your results have the columns fixed at 180px, truncating all descriptions and URLs. Maybe it's an upsell for all I know
- your cURL in the Get Code is demonstrably wrong and I have no idea how it escaped a basic straight-face test; -d '{\"foo\":1}' literally sends brace backslash doublequote
And then, just like my first experience, the matches do not all return repos matching the query criteria. My colleague at work has to tell Cursor "try harder" so maybe you can benefit from including that in your prompt, too
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#1281. I love the idea.
2. The UI needs to work on smaller screens (e.g., tablets). The current layout is VERY cramped.
3. Its ability to search for businesses in a given geography is poor. I asked it to search for businesses in a city and it was giving me results that were obviously incorrect from halfway across the country.
4. For a homepage URL for a business, it once gave me a parked domain name at GoDaddy's "domain for sale" page. That seemed like a blunder. Is that because it's pulling in WHOIS information and it connected some addresses?
5. Performance is quite poor. Perhaps that's because you're getting "Hackernews'd" with a surge of people consuming all your capacity.
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#129Some feedback for you. 1. I love the idea. 2. The UI needs to work on smaller screens (e.g., tablets). The current layout is VERY cramped. 3. Its ability to search for businesses in a given geography is poor. I asked it to search for businesses in a city and it was giving me results that were obviously incorrect from halfway across the country. 4. For a homepage URL for a business, it once gave me a parked domain nam…
Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
#130Some feedback for you. 1. I love the idea. 2. The UI needs to work on smaller screens (e.g., tablets). The current layout is VERY cramped. 3. Its ability to search for businesses in a given geography is poor. I asked it to search for businesses in a city and it was giving me results that were obviously incorrect from halfway across the country. 4. For a homepage URL for a business, it once gave me a parked domain nam…
The UI is perfect for my phone. Love the information density