I don't get it. I have used Phind a lot over the last year but now I type in the same prompts I used in the past and it's not phind anymore, and it doesn't work for me at all. Dey phucked up phind.
sorry to hear that -- could you please elaborate?
Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
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Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#62The problem is I don't think every answer needs a mini-app. I'd argue there are very few answers that do. For example, it feels like Google's featured snippet (quick answer box) but expanded. But the thing is, many people don't like the feature snippet, and there's a reason it doesn't appear for many queries - it doesn't contribute meaningfully to those. This functionality is doing exactly the opposite of the process…
Thanks for the feedback, and I agree that it is very much early days for this product category. To be clear, our goal is to make the software specific for an audience: you. What's exciting, though, is that models are rapidly improving at building on-demand software and this will directly benefit Phind. There are still many edge cases, but I think it will get better quickly.
I would like to see a detection of when I want a one sentence answer and when I want a full interactive explanation with flowcharts and tables and diagrams.
My most common usecase now is "give me a quick answer because I don't want to wade through the search engine results page and then wade through the blog to get my one liner. Eg: "what's the command line to untar an xz over ssh?"
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#63There is a small bug in your onboarding flow: when I select research model and upgrade on phind on my phone it shows some features, but it is not possible to scroll down to the purchase button.
thanks for reporting!
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the feedback, and I agree that it is very much early days for this product category. To be clear, our goal is to make the software specific for an audience: you. What's exciting, though, is that models are rapidly improving at building on-demand software and this will directly benefit Phind. There are still many edge cases, but I think it will get better quickly.
I would like to see a detection of when I want a one sentence answer and when I want a full interactive explanation with flowcharts and tables and diagrams. My most common usecase now is "give me a quick answer because I don't want to wade through the search engine results page and then wade through the blog to get my one liner. Eg: "what's the command line to untar an xz over ssh?"
I hear you, but why not use something like Google AI Mode or AI Overviews for that? That's pretty hard to beat for simple questions in terms of speed, especially for one-liners.
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#65I don't get it. I have used Phind a lot over the last year but now I type in the same prompts I used in the past and it's not phind anymore, and it doesn't work for me at all. Dey phucked up phind.
sorry to hear that -- could you please elaborate?
Before it was a fast AI chat that would explain tech stuff and help me with issues.
I used it quite often, even instead of GH Copilot.
Now, it's much slower and has some kind of solution view that gets updated with every new message.
Found myself to resorting to GH Copilot chat quite often today, because Phind felt like a different/worse service.
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#66Very cool!
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#67If this actually gets traction this looks like it'll just become a feature of ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#68This is cool! AI is the UI!
I could see something like this being especially killer in ecommerce, where comparisons, faceted search, and heavy use of video/photos/3D models is important. Also ecommerce brands love to have control over the aesthetic of their experiences. Their UI is constantly evolving due to sales, up/cross sells, recommendations, personalization, A/B testing, etc
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#69The problem is I don't think every answer needs a mini-app. I'd argue there are very few answers that do. For example, it feels like Google's featured snippet (quick answer box) but expanded. But the thing is, many people don't like the feature snippet, and there's a reason it doesn't appear for many queries - it doesn't contribute meaningfully to those. This functionality is doing exactly the opposite of the process…
I think the killer app for this genre of on demand app creation is BI.
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the feedback, and I agree that it is very much early days for this product category. To be clear, our goal is to make the software specific for an audience: you. What's exciting, though, is that models are rapidly improving at building on-demand software and this will directly benefit Phind. There are still many edge cases, but I think it will get better quickly.
Hmm this answer seems to have ignored everything I said, provided a generic answer ("you") which is exactly the problem, and doubled down on models/technology portion (and edge cases?) which is neither built by Phind nor did I question.
Yea, I wonder if this was an ai interaction.