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When there's capacity, the service is free for non-commercial use.\n\n---\n\nHello. It's 2026, we're training simulated fruit fly brains to play Beat Saber, do we still have to be stuck with internet (re)search as fn: natural language -> black box we can't do anything about -> ranked_list\u002Fsummary?\n\nThere is a long history of people trying to do very fancy things that end up being done in",{"problem":49,"audience":55,"pricing":56,"motivation":63,"time_to_build":55,"stack":67,"openness":76,"stage":77,"team_size":76},{"value":50,"source":51,"evidence":52},"Web search is a black box; users want programmable SQL\u002FDatalog queries over an internet index","maker",[53],{"id":54},"post",null,{"value":57,"source":51,"evidence":58},"Free for non-commercial use when capacity is available; congestion-based pricing otherwise; new users get free credit",[59,60],{"id":54},{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},"49761188","Hi, yes. New users right now get free credit. When the server isn't burdened, queries are currently ~free (under $.01 per second, when most are well under a second). We're just…",{"value":64,"source":51,"evidence":65},"Frustration with opaque natural-language search and the cost model of existing search APIs",[66],{"id":54},[68,72],{"value":69,"source":51,"evidence":70},"ClickHouse",[71],{"id":54},{"value":73,"source":51,"evidence":74},"Datalog",[75],{"id":54},"unknown","launched",{"praise":79,"objections":102,"requests":131,"questions":157,"alternatives":176},[80,88,95],{"value":81,"source":82,"evidence":83},"Congestion pricing is an innovative idea","commenter",[84],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},"49758153","DylanMerigaud","Congestion pricing for queries sounds innovative.",{"value":89,"source":82,"evidence":90},"Found results traditional search could not find",[91],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"49787735","NoahZuniga","I was actually able to find something with this that I would have never been able to find with traditional search! This is great.",{"value":96,"source":82,"evidence":97},"Site design is beautiful",[98],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"49758662","podgorniy","It's beautiful \u003C3",[103,114,121],{"value":104,"source":82,"evidence":105},"Site layout is hard to read; needs a readable version",[106,110],{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"49757277","neilellis","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…",{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"49758693","hmartin","HN: 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.",{"value":115,"source":82,"evidence":116},"Pricing terms are unclear and LLM-sounding",[117],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"49758377","vova_hn2","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…",{"value":122,"source":82,"evidence":123},"Scraping source (Reddit data via pushshift) raises legal concerns",[124,128],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"49760028","codexon","How did you scrape reddit comments? Doesn't this require expensive licensing from reddit? How do you handle comments that were deleted by users?",{"id":129,"by":126,"text":130},"49769569","How hasn't reddit sued them offline yet?",[132,136,143,150],{"value":133,"source":82,"evidence":134},"Provide a readable or simplified version of the site",[135],{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},{"value":137,"source":82,"evidence":138},"Offer dataset snapshots via torrent or p2p",[139],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"49759078","ashkankiani","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. 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