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Honestly, I wish you could've found some way to start your business without taking VC money. I don't see how any of those strategies will be as profitable as as
by candiddevmike 5y ago
Honestly, I wish you could've found some way to start your business without taking VC money. I don't see how any of those strategies will be as profitable as as inline search ads, and your funding model pretty much forces some kind monetization scheme as the end game.
A better search provider starts with a non profit company, I think.
- jedwhite 5y agoI think there is huge potential for a freemium approach. And it means that searchers are the customer not the product. We went a long time with no funding and living off toast and vegemite to survive, so we're incredibly grateful to have some support to help us pay for food and API and model training costs now. We've received backing and funds from YC and angels so far. We're lucky that we're a small team of 2, and we're frugal about things, so we've tried to come up with cost effective ways of building Andi. My own feeling is that search is such a huge problem, and the more people trying different things, different approaches, commercial and non-commercial, the better for the whole world. It's really exciting to see projects like https://search.marginala.nu/ https://search.marginala.nu/ popping up and getting lots of interest and support as well. It has to be good for everyone to have some innovation in search after so long as a tired monopoly.