Re:Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
by campl3r on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @12:49PM
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The UI is perfect for my phone. Love the information density
Re:Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
by drob518 on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @12:58PM
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Interesting. I haven't tried on my phone. Perhaps my iPad resolution falls in the middle of a switch between two different layouts and it's trying to use the desktop version.
Re:Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
by liam-hinzman on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @01:10PM
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I’ll add better support for tablet breakpoints in an hour, thanks for flagging!
1. I love the idea.
2. The UI needs to work on smaller screens (e.g., tablets). The current layout is VERY cramped.
3. Its ability to search for businesses in a given geography is poor. I asked it to search for businesses in a city and it was giving me results that were obviously incorrect from halfway across the country.
4. For a homepage URL for a business, it once gave me a parked domain name at GoDaddy's "domain for sale" page. That seemed like a blunder. Is that because it's pulling in WHOIS information and it connected some addresses?
5. Performance is quite poor. Perhaps that's because you're getting "Hackernews'd" with a surge of people consuming all your capacity.