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Yeah, that's what I meant...wish I could edit the title. EDIT: I'm not going to edit the landing page as not all users know what reddit is. The HN community kn

Yeah, that's what I meant...wish I could edit the title. EDIT: I'm not going to edit the landing page as not all users know what reddit is. The HN community knows reddit but post title could clearly be better.

dang 8y ago
OK I took a crack at reworking the title to express both your points. Email us if you want it changed again. Good luck with the project! (Submitted title was "Show HN: A Reddit-style search engine that doesn't track you".)
- brentadamson 8y ago
  thank you!
forapurpose 8y ago
FWIW, I just spent a minute on the Github page (a normal amount of time for something like this) and had no idea anyone could upvote and downvote links until I read the GP comment. In fact, I just searched the Github page for "reddit" and for "vote", and found nothing. I don't know what this product is or does. Does it run locally? Is there a hosted version available? How is it different than DuckDuckGo or Startpage? Is there a voting feature, as the GP says? A voting feature would make it interesting to me with one major caveat: It depends on who is doing the voting. For example, if I could restrict voting to HN users then it could be a very useful way to search for tech or for many intellectual topics but not for housing in Tokyo. A random subset of the general public's votes on tech topics would not be useful to me as a professional. Political topics seem like a minefield.
- brentadamson 8y ago
  There's a link at the top of the GH repo: https://www.jivesearch.com/ https://www.jivesearch.com/. You can also run it locally. This is different than DDG/Startpage, etc in that everything is open source. I think I have a good start on the instant answers: "shaquille o'neal height", "weather", "matisyahu discography", etc. To my knowledge neither has Wikidata instant answers.
jwilk 8y ago
You can ask moderators to edit the title for you. hn@ycombinator.com

dang 8y ago

OK I took a crack at reworking the title to express both your points. Email us if you want it changed again. Good luck with the project! (Submitted title was "Show HN: A Reddit-style search engine that doesn't track you".)

brentadamson 8y ago
thank you!

forapurpose 8y ago

FWIW, I just spent a minute on the Github page (a normal amount of time for something like this) and had no idea anyone could upvote and downvote links until I read the GP comment. In fact, I just searched the Github page for "reddit" and for "vote", and found nothing. I don't know what this product is or does. Does it run locally? Is there a hosted version available? How is it different than DuckDuckGo or Startpage? Is there a voting feature, as the GP says? A voting feature would make it interesting to me with one major caveat: It depends on who is doing the voting. For example, if I could restrict voting to HN users then it could be a very useful way to search for tech or for many intellectual topics but not for housing in Tokyo. A random subset of the general public's votes on tech topics would not be useful to me as a professional. Political topics seem like a minefield.

brentadamson 8y ago
There's a link at the top of the GH repo: https://www.jivesearch.com/ https://www.jivesearch.com/. You can also run it locally. This is different than DDG/Startpage, etc in that everything is open source. I think I have a good start on the instant answers: "shaquille o'neal height", "weather", "matisyahu discography", etc. To my knowledge neither has Wikidata instant answers.

jwilk 8y ago

You can ask moderators to edit the title for you. hn@ycombinator.com