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No sorry for confusion. It is ka-gi, just accented in the same way as yogi.
"Kah-Gi" or "Kar-Gi"?
Perhaps this settles it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig4VTr0rt4Q
Kagi: A Premium Search Engine
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This brought back memories. The first money I ever made from software as a teenager was through Kagi. It was some Mac utility shareware apps written in REALbasic around the year 2000.
REALbasic? Hmm, if it was about 2006 I’d wonder if it was some of my creations. Long time since I did shareware in any language, though. Something like £2k total takings, I wasn’t good at business.
(And now I realise I misread the comment as spent money rather than made money)
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#203Founder here. Thanks for submitting it, but I am afraid there is not much to see right now. We are still in closed beta (mostly to control cost and gradually improve user experience), with much more left to do. There are some examples of what Kagi can do in my twitter feed. [1] Main idea of Kagi is to offer a paid search product, where user is also the customer and is central to everything that happens. Btw. Kagi is…
Couple of things: First, price point is 2-4x what I expected. Not saying I wouldn’t be a customer but at $5 unlimited it would be a no brainer for me. Related: I would love to see family pricing. $12-13 price point is just right for me to share with my family with up to six people or some such. Privacy is important. Is it possible to provide a payment system that is anonymous? Cash in the mail? BTC or similar? What i…
Unfortunately we are not in the position to set the price point by consensus or market expectation but by realistic cost of providing the service at a given level of quality, in a way that potentially ensures sustainability and serving the customers long-term.
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> Register a new HN handle here for comms about Kagi. I think one of the best things about HN is that there are few "corporate" accounts, and founders continue to communicate from their personal accounts.
I agree with you, though most of those handles do in some way relate to the person and are typically not 'fantasy style'. I didn't mean to suggest 'register hi-kagi-ceo-here '. Maybe 'The Vlad' would work.
vlad_the_imputer
Sort of works. Apologies for the joke, it’s the Friday of the first week back.
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+1, happy paying NextDNS customer here (for 1.5 years now) and recent Kagi user, very happy so far (likely future customer)!
Love NextDNS as well - my only gripe with it is that I cant have separate filters and lists for different sets of devices. Would love to have my family on some more basic security and privacy stuff while keeping the advanced and higher false positive based stuff for my devices.
Hmm, what do you mean? I have a number of different profiles, all with unique settings (lists). It's to the right of the NextDNS logo in the UI as a dropdown. Then in the client you choose which profile you want to connect to.
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#206> Be snappy and responsive on every device even without JavaScript enabled. Huh, I thought I'd catch them out by disabling all javascript but they actually didn't use any for this webpage. Nice.
Not just that but all of Kagi Search works without JavaScript! We see JavaScript as a way to enhance product experience, not create it.
> We see JavaScript as a way to enhance product experience, not create it.
What an incredible one-liner, along multiple value axes.
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#209I've used Kagi (and you.com) a bit, and I'm amazed at how much better the results were for the few queries I made. It wasn't blogspam any more, I got actual articles from actual sites. Hopefully I'll keep using them, but Google is overdue a disruption.
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#210It seems the trend lately for new services to be built with rather high monthly fees. From the FAQ: "We plan to offer entry level plans for as low as $10/month, unlimited plan at around $20/mo as well as make bundles (to include Kagi email and other services), family plans and annual payment discounts available." I have to say I support a lot of these initiatives, but I can't help but think altogether they're creatin…
> but I can't help but think altogether they're creating a division of the web into premium services the rich can afford If I may, there is huge complexity at hand here. It is one thing to offer a meditation app for $2/mo, where its peak complexity is changing colors on the screen. It is entire different to be able to offer the entire internet searchable in less than 500ms in the palm of your hand. The ability to off…
Can you talk about why the price needs to be at the 20-30$ level and what infrastructure and engineering needs to be built / maintained / expanded on to run a search engine?