Show HN: My open search index project, success or failure

Re:Show HN: My open search index project, success or failure by mindcrime on Monday March 21, 2011 @11:43AM (#2350191)

At the risk of stating the obvious: Have you considered looking for outside funding? The site looks pretty slick, and I could see it having some potential, depending on where you go with a few things. This general notion of "social search" is a fairly hot topic right now, from what I've seen. With a track record of actually having delivered something useful, you might be able to raise funding to hire a team to move the project forward.

Have you applied to YC, or considered applying to YC? Or seeking angel/VC money at all?

Regardless of what you wind up doing, I'd love to chat with you about it sometime, as some of your ideas probably overlap with some stuff I'm working on. Shoot me an email if you'd like to talk.

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Re:Show HN: My open search index project, success or failure by hackscribe on Monday March 21, 2011 @12:16PM (#2350349)

I tried looking for outside funding early on but eventually got discouraged and gave up. I've started working on a new project this year and so my focus has shifted a bit. I may reconsider outside funding once again in a couple of months if I still own the site and the traction metrics are positive.

Haven't thought about applying to YC because I'm not much of a developer and without a technical co-founder I figure my chances of acceptance are very low.

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Re:Show HN: My open search index project, success or failure by mindcrime on Monday March 21, 2011 @12:25PM (#2350391)

Haven't thought about applying to YC because I'm not much of a developer and without a technical co-founder I figure my chances of acceptance are very low.

Low, maybe. Non-zero, almost certainly, based on what I've seen pg and others say here. Especially since you actually have something "live" that already has some traction. I think I saw somebody say something like "traction trumps everything" not long ago. Anyway, just a thought...

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