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How HN took it
5 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Design: 1 for, 3 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Congestion pricing is an innovative idea
From 1 comment
Congestion pricing for queries sounds innovative.
DylanMerigaud on HN
Found results traditional search could not find
From 1 comment
I was actually able to find something with this that I would have never been able to find with traditional search! This is great.
NoahZuniga on HN
Site design is beautiful
From 1 comment
It's beautiful <3
podgorniy on HN
Objections
Site layout is hard to read; needs a readable version
From 2 comments
Please have a 'readable version' option so I don't have to exhaust myself parsing the sites layout. I get that it's unique but most of us just want to work out what you're…
neilellis on HNHN: This site looks like all the other slop, awful to read. Also HN: This site is doesn't look like other sites, awful to read.
hmartin on HN
Pricing terms are unclear and LLM-sounding
From 1 comment
Pricing model is hard to understand at a glance. It uses a term "second of query time" which is not a conventional term and not defined anywhere. Also, all pricing related pages…
vova_hn2 on HN
Scraping source (Reddit data via pushshift) raises legal concerns
From 2 comments
How did you scrape reddit comments? Doesn't this require expensive licensing from reddit? How do you handle comments that were deleted by users?
codexon on HNHow hasn't reddit sued them offline yet?
codexon on HN
Requests
Provide a readable or simplified version of the site
From 1 comment
Please have a 'readable version' option so I don't have to exhaust myself parsing the sites layout. I get that it's unique but most of us just want to work out what you're…
neilellis on HN
Offer dataset snapshots via torrent or p2p
From 1 comment
Cool idea. The pricing model reminds me of my time working in algorithmic trading, haha. I'll try this out for some queries I wanted to run. I suppose the scraping you're doing…
ashkankiani on HN
Integrate with smaller search engines like Kagi, Brave, DDG
From 1 comment
This is a very good thing, thanks! Have you talked with any of the smaller search engines like Kagi, Qwant, Brave, Mwmbl, DDG, etc to have this supplement the quality of their…
MrDrMcCoy on HN
Add to the DeepSearchQA leaderboard
From 1 comment
I'm out of my depth, search is just really cool. If Scry beats the current DeepSearchQA leaderboard why isn't it in the leaderboard? Will it be added? Are you forced to use a…
arboles on HN
Questions
How is data ingested from many sources cost-effectively
From 1 comment
Fascinating stuff. Curious how you handle the ingestion of data from so many sources cost effectively
antoniojtorres on HN
Is text-to-SQL a dead end
From 1 comment
> Furthermore, search companies aren't even pursuing text-to-SQL anymore (several have talked to me)... they made up their minds during the traumatic 2024 text-to-sql days. They…
ares623 on HN
How Reddit comments were scraped and handled when deleted
From 1 comment
How did you scrape reddit comments? Doesn't this require expensive licensing from reddit? How do you handle comments that were deleted by users?
codexon on HN
Alternatives named
Google Search
From 1 comment
Tavily
From 1 comment
Exa
From 1 comment