wesammikhail

wrong! it was the death of Harambe that caused it.

> and for choice mode it can only select from 10 choices.

Rip there goes my excitement. I have a task that something like this would be great for but the list of options is a zero or two larger than that xd

It's not a "Zitron claim". it's literally in the filings...

What? no human in history has gotten anything 80% right. You're doing exactly what this piece complains about.

I dont use open router so can someone explain to me how it works in that different vendors have different api parameters?

is the selling point that they just give you access to a unified access in where you get to write each request toward the particular api provider's api spec? if so why not just sign up with the vendor directly?

Appreciate it. Really looking forward to your feedback.

I have my own infra setup and started with 25k seed domains including major known startups, YC companies and things like that. I collected some of the data via scraping and then merged it with 3rd party enrichment sources. Once the crawling per domain is finished, it is put on a 30 day schedule to repeat the crawl just to keep things fresh.

If you are on desktop and click on a result entry, you'll see expanded data for each domain. In reality that's just a small portion of the total data I collect.

Anyway, really looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Thanks :)

It's mostly for navigational search. Say you're looking for a tool that does X, this engine will match your query against all the domains in the database to find you the closest matching domain that solves for that pain point you have.

It's like a discovery engine to help you find tools, products, services, or domains that cater to (or market themselves as a solution for) the problem you have.

Curious to hear if you have any feedback on the concept as is or if you can see any potential changes that would make it work better?

Cheers!

I first thought about this approach back in 2011 when I was in college. But never did anything with the idea because I did not have the resources at the time to build something like this.

As of late however, it has become rather clear that the current distribution channels for businesses, both organic and paid, are getting squeezed.

- Google doesnt send you traffic anymore

- Search results are infested with SEO optimized content that no one can compete with

- LLMs cite the same garbage

- Distribution via advertising is getting more expensive each day

- Social channel are all about clickbait and maximize following which encourages quantity over quality

It's clear that the relationship between product-sellers and potential-buyers is completely out of whack today. Most of the time they can't even find each other.

That's why I decided to crawl a small index of 25k websites and try this out.

The idea is to profile a domain as a whole (single entry) and match the user's query to find the best fitting product/service that solves their pain point. This ignores any SEO optimized content, spam, black hat garbage, and instead focuses on finding the best match making the distribution playing field more equal.

Is this a good idea? I still don't know. That's why I'm looking for feedback. I could easily improve the search result quality by like 5-10x but I'm trying to ascertain first if this approach is even helpful to people.

Curious to hear if you have any feedback for me?

I've had an idea for a different type of free & open search engine for the last 15 years. I ended up pursing other ideas instead over the years.

Last month however I decided to go back to the idea and give it a shot. Right now I'm in the process of scraping and building a huge index. The technical challenges have been plenty. But I should be ready to publish an alpha version by end of month or so.

It's been working for tens of thousands of years. What changed in the last few decades wasn't parenting or technology. It was the rise of the nanny state where the parents gave up the parenting of their kids and entrusted that to educational institutions instead.

if("false" === true) echo "PHP sucks";

else echo "You're full of shit!";

// output

> You're full of shit!

Been using PHP for 20 years and have built multiple startups with it that went from ideas to exits.

Today's PHP is better than it has ever been. Are there some things that are rough around the edges? yes ofc. But there is no language that doesn't have that. It's all trade-offs.

Last week I switched from Nginx+FPM to FrankenPHP and my god even the deployment experience got 10x better.

Safe to say that if you haven't tried the language, give it a shot. Within a few days you'll know if it's a good fit for you or not!