Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

Re:Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database by joshstrange on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @01:39PM (#43907688)

I think it might be a good idea to give some kind of indication that work is being done in the background (or perhaps mine stalled out?).

The initial search/experience is good but then I got dumped here [0] and it's not clear to me if things are still happening or if it broke (it's been at least 5 min with no UI updates.

I can't see the full results yet but this is very interesting and a task I ask OpenAI's Deep Research to attempt periodically. It makes a good show of doing the work but the results are not great IMHO (for asking it generate lists/tables of data like this). I can see this tool being incredibly useful for lead generation (how I am testing it out).

[0] https://cs.joshstrange.com/dySqK1mb

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Re:Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database by liam-hinzman on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @06:57PM (#43910527)

We were down for a bit, sorry about that. Ran your search for you, and found 25 results in ~2 minutes.

“List of food festivals on the east coast specializing in small dishes or encourages sampling from multiple vendors. features more than 20 vendors”

https://websets.exa.ai/cmad3sonh001zhx0i1h7t692f

btw I like how you host screenshots on your personal website

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