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Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

#91

Post by freehorse » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 11:29 AM UTC

browningstreet wrote: post #60

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.

I also used the original phind back then. For a brief period of time, it was probably the best place around for programming questions.

Then they pivoted to flowcharts and now to "one off apps". It is a bit weird because the concepts are not bad necessarily, but instead of adding features to their product incrementally they decided to make that one feature their product. The problem imo is that there is no one size fitting all. Flowcharts or interactive content can be great, but it is not always the best fit for a search query. Like, I do believe that the chat based UI is not optimal and flowcharts and more complex interactive/dynamic functionalities are great improvements for some use cases, but I am not sure of what to make of this product. If it was a feature in a more general product that I could still get the same functionality as before, it may have been more appealing. Now it feels like they are building a new hammer every time and looking for nails that fit that one hammer.

Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

#92

Post by AJRF » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 12:32 PM UTC

You need to make it so the map doesn't refresh when I click another pin, that's so annoying. I wanted to see how hectic my plan for London day trip would be, but I lose the locality between clicking different options in the map.

Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

#93

Post by discordance » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 2:02 PM UTC

browningstreet wrote: post #60

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.

try old.phind.com

Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

#94

Post by rushingcreek » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 2:50 PM UTC

eastoeast wrote: post #89

This is pretty cool. Congrats on the launch! With anything, there will be multiple corner cases to handle, but I'm initially impressed! Low hanging fruit feedback that would really improve the experience of many: I haven't been able to pinpoint it, but there seems to be double scroll bar enabled in both the container of the whole page (top navbar, and "non-content") and the actual wanted scrollbar inside the rendered…

Thank you, will take a look!

Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

#95

Post by thimoteelegrand » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 3:42 PM UTC

It looks amazing. But the image aspect ratio is incorrect. I have asked for "Premier League standings." It would be cool if the interaction could communicate with an external APIs or platforms. For example, if I am looking for a dress for a party, the app can help me order that after showing me some dresses from marketplaces.

Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

#96

Post by l___l » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 3:30 PM UTC

johndevor wrote: post #75

l___l wrote: post #53

This 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

Without looking further into hallway, I'm inclined to say no because it doesn't instantly prompt me to describe the app I want to build.

I want to build an app. Not to enter an email in a textbox.

Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

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Post by l___l » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 3:36 PM UTC

rushingcreek wrote: post #54

l___l wrote: post #53

This 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.

What type of apps would you like to see it make? How does this version of Phind work for it? And thanks for sticking with us :)

I want a simple CRUD mobile app that talks to a website. Like a website where you GET and POST to read and write data. Something that copies the submission forms of a website and gives me the website as a mobile app. Something that identifies all endpoints in a website and gives me access to these endpoints as a mobile app.

Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

#98

Post by omani » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 9:09 PM UTC

too slow man. come on. you make phind worse and worse. unusable. no need to wait a minute for an answer.

seriously, just use https://chat.mistral.ai/chat folks.

Re: Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

#99

Post by victor_y » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 12:33 PM UTC

I think having the LLM output as rich visual interface is the future of AI interaction. I think the app as I have tested it, it's great, posting some interesting visuals. In its current form it reminds me a bit about how this feature is already implemented in Claude for instance.

During the generation process, the UX was generally great, and the webapp felt responsive. However, a lot of " Error executing code: Failed to access notebook: calc_notebook" errors where thrown. The final result looked great, I'm not sure whether these errors did have any impact.

Have you thought about getting this feature shipped through an API with some React components so that it could be used for building websites that handle AI interactions?