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We did. https://framerate.tv

I'm building a daily trivia game using Bolt.new.

What do you think? https://brainblitz.app

Doh!

I would have killed for this back in my editing and motion graphics days.

The Roto Brush in After Effects is similar, but its quality has always been lacking and it takes forever to process.

I’m going to go out in a limb and say that Dodge Chargers are more likely to cause a crash in the United States because I’d their erratic drivers.

Ever have a sex scene pop up and have a child sitting next to you?

Yes, just a joke, but I understand your point.

Thank you for checking it out, and for your feedback. You can't really discourage me anymore than I already am. XD 1. I see your point, and will think on it. 2. This is a tough one. On one hand we want people to trust us, but on the other, we don't want people easily gaming the site. 3. I agree. Consistency is lacking and this is on our todo list. (How the hell did Trump make it on both lists!? Clearly lots of work to do)

We don't have any revenue, but it's not something we're currently focused on.

I started Bestlist.com around two years ago. It is a search and discovery app that allows users to find the best of anything. The idea came about after I had grown tired of the current state of search, where a query often resulted in SEO-optimized blog posts instead of the desired information.

In a nutshell, Bestlist works by taking the user’s query, scraping the internet for reputable articles and social media posts relating to the query and extracting the mentioned “listings.” To form our ranking, we take many factors into account. We look at occurrences, the listing’s ratings on various sites, sentiment regarding the listing, and a few other things. Our results are not perfect, but we’re improving them on a daily basis.

We launched on Producthunt with lackluster results. After talking with users and getting feedback, the main issue I see is that people all have their own ways of searching and finding what they’re looking for, and Bestlist doesn’t provide enough of an “Aha” moment to stay at the top of mind to form new habits.

I’ve been funding the five person company with revenue from the sell of my first company, but I’m having a hard time stomaching spending more money each month, when we seem to be make little to no progress in winning users over. Add to that, the seemingly overnight onslaught in AI capabilities and the fear that what we’re creating is heading towards obsolescence, and I feel absolutely defeated.

A competitor of our’s raised a $10 million series A recently, so there are clearly some believers in the problem we’re trying to solve.

I'm at a loss. When do you know it’s time to shut your startup down? Any feedback is welcomed.

Thank you, Tyler

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What do you mean? You can easily set it as your default search.

I love this. If you're looking to collaborate or potentially sell, let me know. tyler at failure dot com.

Nice work!

I am so thankful we got out of the stock business when we did.

AI generated photos, videos, music and animations are here, and I believe it's only a matter of time before they replace a large percentage of the stock websites/companies.

I’m at a horse show in Lexington Kentucky where my daughter is competing.

It’s my first time here, and with the cooler weather it’s quickly becoming one of my favorite show venues.

Hi HN, We wanted to share a new search engine we've been working on, and get the communities feedback.

Bestlist is a search engine that is focused solely on helping users discover the best of anything. We do this by aggregating millions of data points, reviews, and comments, and processing it with our machine learning models.

All of our results are non-biased, non-paid, and are dynamically generated via our search algorithm. It is also private. We highly respect your privacy, and we pledge to never share your personal data with advertisers or other third parties.

Other features:

Voting If you’re feeling strongly about a search results, you can up or downvote the listing to voice your opinion. When you vote, you’ll be asked to state why you voted. This gives other users better insights into the listing.

Collections With collections you can easily save and keep track of all of your favorite listings. Collections can be public or made private, and they’re easily edited, reordered, and shared.

Submissions If you find that we’re missing a result for a particular query, you can easily submit it as a suggestion. We’ll review it, and publish it if it makes the cut.

We'd love to know what you think, and if you think the idea has legs.

Thank you, Tyler

Hi HN! My name is Tyler, and I'm the founder of Bestlist.com. We're building a search engine that is focused on helping you find the best of anything.

For each search, we crawl the web and collect data, we measure sentiment from social media, and analyze various ratings, before compiling our list of results.

We're still in the early stages, and our results are not perfect, but we think things are looking promising.

In the future, we hope to personalize results for our users based on their search history. For example, if I search for "best gluten free beer" and "best gluten free pizza", and then turn around and search "best restaurants near me," it would make sense to show restaurants with gluten free options, right? This is a longer term goal and we know it's not going to be easy to get right, but we think it can be an amazing feature.

We'd love to hear your feedback.

Thanks so much, Tyler

Hi HN!

My name is Tyler, and I'm the founder of Bestlist.com. We're building a search engine that is focused on helping you find the best of anything.

For each search, we crawl the web and collect data, we measure sentiment from social media, and analyze various ratings, before compiling our list of results.

We're still in the early stages, and our results are not perfect, but we think things are looking promising.

In the future, we hope to personalize results for our users based on their search history. For example, if I search for "best gluten free beer" and "best gluten free pizza", and then turn around and search "best restaurants near me," it would make sense to show restaurants with gluten free options, right? This is a longer term goal and we know it's not going to be easy to get right, but we think it can be an amazing feature.

We'd love to hear your feedback.

Thanks so much, Tyler

Thank you so much!

Thank you! Great insights.