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Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

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Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

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Post by dang »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #19
dang wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A bit of gratuitous nastiness. Edit: adding "no offense" doesn't change this.

Is it better now?

It's marginally better because it explains what you mean, and that at least eliminates other nasty interpretations.

However, I don't think it's fair for you to assume they're "trying to hide that it's so slow". There's no need to impute bad motives to people, and you don't have nearly enough information to justify such a claim.

What's wrong with simply reporting the problem that you're experiencing with the software? That would make your comment helpful, with no trace of a putdown.

Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

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Post by herpdyderp »

ByteAtATime wrote: post #5

This is really cool! Just a small nitpick: on a low-powered device, the hero globe is really laggy (it's fine if I scroll past it, though).

Even with it working I initially thought it was trying to convey some meaning, but it's just a bunch of logos not really doing anything.

Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

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Post by cobertos »

srameshc wrote: post #17

So the crawlers are feeding to database and also something is classifying the data stream and organizing the data and everything is open as a very large dataset. This is an interesting concept.

What your describe is the same concept as what https://hash.ai purports to be

Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

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Post by liam-hinzman »

85392_school wrote: post #20
koakuma-chan wrote: post #8

> We’d love to hear your feedback! I gave it a try and my first search got one match, 14 misses, and all other results are "Verifying..." but it seems stuck (it's been minutes). I can see why you cut your demo (please don't try to hide that it's so slow, especially since you seem to imply to be a Google competitor ("Google has gotten worse over time"), while your product is incomparably slower than Google; it's more…

> while your product is incomparably slower than Google Exa was originally just a search engine. They try to hide it these days to promote Websets, but you can still use it at https://exa.ai/search .

We hid it because the UI wasn’t maintained.

I joined recently, and live-streamed myself designing and shipping the new search frontend in 5h32m

https://x.com/LiamHinzman/status/1911244983291514941

Added a link to it on our homepage, thanks for pointing that out!

Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

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Post by willbryk »

mbeavitt wrote: post #3

This is super cool. You provide examples of “searches that work” - can you give an idea of the limitations here? What kind of searches won’t work?

We're a startup, so most of our resources go towards use cases that our users care most about. So the search should work best for - people, companies, papers, high quality written content (e.g., blogs, news). It should work well at more than just those (try Github repo search, it's quite good :D), but those are the best supported.

Types of searches Websets doesn't currently do well at: - products (e.g., ecommerce sites) - Content that requires authentication/permissions to access - non-English content

Some of the above are on our roadmap, and let us know if there's some type of data you'd like us to support!

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