Really novel idea but - I think there's a bug for the first example, when I land on the websets page, it searches "Engineers with startup experience based in california" but whats returned are a bunch of tennis websites
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#92Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
#93Very nice! Like a Databricks for Google, or perhaps think of it as Google backend as a service (at least their AI like backend not the main search) It disrupts anyone who merely does one thing this does. E.g. contact building app can be done by this. I imagine many "wrapper" apps can be built on this. I am serious though. It felt like using databricks a little bit, obviously without all the functionality but that wil…
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#94Re: Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
#95Very helpful for candidates searching but still a bit slow for every day use Like - “what are the events happening today in my city”
But I believe you guys will crack it soon and make it better
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#96I tried "Full-stack web frameworks started 2023 or later" and the first result was FastHTML which is a very good answer. I was hoping for Dioxus but that I think is actually a little bit older. Of course Google's results, including Gemini, were useless. MeteorJS was not started in 2023 or later. LOL.
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#97Evals on this would be great to benchmark the gap between using websets versus a generic web search tool. Otherwise to a developer, it's just marketing.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Geospatial data would be great. This stuff is notoriously annoying to search for. For example: "Give me a list of free imagery service endpoints I can use in a maplibre style sheet. Include information such as name, description, service endpoint, service type, extent (global/regional)."
This might be possible if you specify geospatial location as an enriched column. The visualization of it as a map though is not supported in the UI, but can be built by giving an LLM access to the Websets API
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#99The search engine was impressive enough but I think this implementation was a nice cherry on top.
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#100> The second is that LLMs provide the last-mile intelligence needed to verify every result. Each result and piece of data is backed with supporting references that we used to validate that the result is actually a match for your search criteria. Evals on this would be great to benchmark the gap between using websets versus a generic web search tool. Otherwise to a developer, it's just marketing.