Re:Launch HN: Andi (YC W22) – Q&A based, ad-free, anti-spam ...
by AngelaHoover on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @01:03AM
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Thanks, so you mean the scroll bar located in the middle of the screen? And that's a helpful point re readability of the snippets. We've heard (on multiple occasions) that our UX needs a lot of work and we're planning to get some help with that soon. We're a very ambitious team but it's a lot of work for two people! I sincerely appreciate you trying it out and giving us feedback :)
Re:Launch HN: Andi (YC W22) – Q&A based, ad-free, anti-spam ...
by invaliduser on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @01:56AM
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I meant the scrollbar for the search result.
Good luck on this projet, I would really love to see some alternative for Search.
Not sure if this is relevant or if I am your target, but I do not feel like having the best results or being able to search in the most massive document database is my main goal when using a search engine: if I can just find quickly something relevant (meaning, fast to query and fast/easy to read the results) I'd be just fine for most of my searches.
- I was puzzled by the chat interface, but found out that I could click on the previous answers and get the results visible again. This is pretty handy to go back and forth on results trying a few different queries. Would be even better if the scrollview was repositionned where it was.
- The displayed snippet is definitely something you will need to work a lot on, because right now it is not easy to read and I think this is the major problem to solve for any search engine (ie. readability of the results).
Put the AI stuff aside for now and work on the UX.