Redditle.com
Web and SaaS
search engine
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
13 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 23 critical, out of 63 comments about the project. Thread score -0.18.
Idea: 7 for, 7 againstPerformance: 2 for, 9 againstExecution: 2 for, 5 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Works as described and the styling feels like Google
From 1 comment
This is a fun idea, and works exactly as described! I really like how the styling feels like google search too.
nfadili on HN
Google result quality has declined, so this helps
From 1 comment
Google's search result quality has been abysmal for years now, cheers for this.
epa on HN
Objections
Browser keyword search engines already do this
From 2 comments
Alternatively, just add keyword searches to your browser. Here's how to do it with Firefox: https://kb.iu.edu/d/arjb In Chrome, you do pretty much the same in Settings->Search…
runjake on HNProtip for Firefox users: you can create your own custom search engines for any website by simply creating a new bookmark of the form…
trinovantes on HN
Service often shows no results or errors under load
From 4 comments
I get a blank screen with a 500 and some JS errors every time. ``` POST https://4781toi2w8.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/default/redditle-search 500 Error: TypeError:…
ARandomerDude on HNHmm, if I search "nordic curls" I get "No results found". If I Google "nordic curls reddit" the first hit is an incredibly useful reddit post. Edit: That's weird, it seems to be…
Bo0kerDeWitt on HNInternal Server Error!
abdussamit on HNLove this, but just stopped working for me. Did an initial search and got lots of results, came back and reloaded the page to “No results found :(“. Same issue from new window.
adwi on HN
Requests
Browser extension instead of a separate site
From 1 comment
Going with some kind of browser extension would've been better!!
Lamad123 on HN
Date and karma sorting
From 1 comment
I'd like to be able to sort by Date/Karma etc... its it possible that might be added?
senectus1 on HN
Support for other search engines
From 1 comment
It would be nice if this supported <insert search engine> AND the ability to choose.
parentheses on HN
Questions
Why not a static redirect to Google instead of an API
From 1 comment
Assuming this is just for fun and not an attempt at an actual business, why not just forward the user to www.google.com/search?q=my_query after appending "+site:Reddit.com" or…
oh_sigh on HN
Alternatives named
DuckDuckGo !r and !searchr bangs
From 2 comments
For DuckDuckGo users, you can just use a !bang. !r for searching on Reddit directly, !sr to go to a specific subreddit, !searchr for searching Reddit through DDG, and !greddit…
nvrspyx on HNWhy is nobody mentioning Duckduckgo’s !r operator?
zagrebian on HN
Browser custom search engine keywords
From 1 comment
Protip for Firefox users: you can create your own custom search engines for any website by simply creating a new bookmark of the form…
trinovantes on HN
gooreddit.com
From 1 comment
Funny I built the same thing a couple weeks ago: https://gooreddit.com/
TimLeland on HN
More Rich Results and HyperSearch extensions
From 2 comments
I've been working on a browser extension called More Rich Results that you might find useful. It just looks for Reddit and Stack Exchange results and previews them in the…
bitterblotter on HNI built a desktop browser extension version (100% open source and GPL licensed) of this basic idea or side searching filtered to some sites only. It also just uses your browser's…
abhinavsharma on HN