Is this a pivot? I used Phind successfully about 2 years ago to make my way around an old codebase
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
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
As someone who never used Phind, how was it better than copilot? Did it integrate data from broader sources or just do a better job of presenting it? Was it faster?
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#73This is pretty cool!
Since we’re sharing related work, I’ve been building something at a very different layer of the stack. Shameless plug warning!
Where Phind gives you an interactive answer right now, I built SageNet for the opposite problem: when you want to go from zero → actually good at something over weeks/months, not just get a one-shot result.
SageNet:
- builds a personalized learning plan
- adapts as you progress
- generates short audio lessons
- gives real projects
- has a daily voice check-in agent
- lets you share a public progress dashboard
If anyone wants to try it: https://www.sagenet.club
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#74You have a good product, but I would remove beautiful* from your copy. Based on what I tried, every result page has the same AI aesthetic, with low contrast text which is at times _very_ hard to read (e.g., small red text).
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#75This might be super-obvious or it might already exist but can you make Phind create mobile apps? I don't know of any site that builds a mobile app and actually gives you the app instead of give you half the app or ask to pay for credits and so on and never showing you the full real app that you can install on your phone and actually use . Phind user for ~2 years.
Would a PWA suffice? We are building that @ https://hallway.com
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#76i love this. had my doubts when i read the premise, but this might replace chatGPT for me for learning stuff.
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
One example: I asked it to explain continue.dev, the kind of thing I’d asked it previously.
Before I got a proper summary and an arch diagram. It felt like its own work. Now it spun in circles for a good while and then it regurgitated the continue.dev website in weird topic boxes and that wasn’t helpful at all.
It does seem that it’s SOTA for LLMs to take forever to respond. In that sense it’s in good company. More and more, lately, I send a prompt to an LLM and switch tabs because it’s likely to be 20-60 seconds at best.
A curious regression, even if I understand why.
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
One example: I asked it to explain continue.dev, the kind of thing I’d asked it previously. Before I got a proper summary and an arch diagram. It felt like its own work. Now it spun in circles for a good while and then it regurgitated the continue.dev website in weird topic boxes and that wasn’t helpful at all. It does seem that it’s SOTA for LLMs to take forever to respond. In that sense it’s in good company. More a…
Thanks for the specific example -- I'll take a look at this. In the meantime, you can use old.phind.com if you still want the old experience.
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
One benefit is that they could use just phind, making it more sticky.
Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
#80This is so cool. These are shareable I guess? I built this to give me recommendations of good non-fiction books to read...
https://www.phind.com/search/i-want-to-find-out-d79b4dca-bac...