Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by srvmshr on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:51PM (#34278236)

Most of your arguments regarding resources are in general valid points, but when you are showcasing 3 results as selling points how hard is it to keep them updated. If you're not personally bothered by this showcase -- which is your product advertisment -- you perhaps should be. Going against a trillion dollar company needs a very convincing pitch IMO to average user.

> We are a ten people bootstrapped team.

We are a 2-engineer startup. We give business analytics/market trends on mined webdata (through our B2B dashboards) with a 48 hour live data guarantee. Every time, user queries crunch through about 9 million data points for every day over last 36 months - in real time. Sorry, but it isn't a very good reason to have stale results.

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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by D13Fd on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:13PM (#34278577)

You're demanding an awful lot out of a $10/mo product here. And I think you're missing the forest for the trees. It's still an as-good-or-better search engine than Google with no ads and a focus on privacy.

The fact that it lists ballpark prices rather than exact prices is really not that important in the grand scheme of things.

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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by srvmshr on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:19PM (#34278670)

I never once mentioned the price point.

My critique was about the accuracy of the results, and staleness of their showcase. If I would be a paying customer - be it $1 or $10/mo - I would expect it to be better than something I get for free. I already mentioned in another comment that Google shouldn't be a baseline to improve on, when so many competing innovative search companies such as DDG, Ecosia, You.com exist. Even DDG, Ecosia aren't visually that spammy either. For Kagi to win, the product strategy should win over by a visible margin.

You like it. To each his own.

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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by ZephyrBlu on Friday January 06, 2023 @02:33PM (#34279699)

They're not pitching to the average user. Average users won't pay for search.

Also kind of a dick move to compare to your startup to Kagi to justify it sucking. Analytics is very different to search. Your products sound completely different.

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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by srvmshr on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:28PM (#34284831)

Then you're missing the contradiction. Average user won't pay for search, and paying tech-savvy user may not be convinced. I have nothing against their product - my critique is to improve their product showcase.

I never knew pointing out excuses was a 'dick move' when we are doing the same theoretically (mining web data). In my defense, you could take your opinion elsewhere.

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