Re:Show HN: New drag and drop search engine
by bananicorn on Thursday January 23, 2020 @05:53AM
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Interesting concept, really clean execution - although I wonder:
Where do you see the use-case?
Something domain-specific, like maybe cooking recipes where you combine icons representing the ingredients?
A search where you could mix and match all kinds of game genres?
It would have to be something where the icons are understandable at a glance, and where you can just throw them into the 'pot' without much further thought.
As it is right here, I don't see why I would use this over a traditional text-based search engine, but I could imagine this working rather well in a more confined setting, maybe embedded in another website :)
Something domain-specific, like maybe cooking recipes where you combine icons representing the ingredients?
A search where you could mix and match all kinds of game genres?
It would have to be something where the icons are understandable at a glance, and where you can just throw them into the 'pot' without much further thought.
As it is right here, I don't see why I would use this over a traditional text-based search engine, but I could imagine this working rather well in a more confined setting, maybe embedded in another website :)