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They only have 43,000 members (stat from the same page), so that's 20 queries a day per member, which doesn't seem that crazy.
by MostlyStable 2y ago
They only have 43,000 members (stat from the same page), so that's 20 queries a day per member, which doesn't seem that crazy.
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- Brajeshwar 2y agoSo, only us HN members are members of Kagi.
- Semaphor 2y agoYou are (maybe) joking, but I’d guess there’s an extremely high overlap between HN users and Kagi users. I converted someone from a metal discord I’m in to Kagi with a promo gift last year, and he’s also the only HN user on the server ;)
- Brajeshwar 2y ago“Many a true word is spoken in jest.” ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many_a_true_word_is_spoken_in_jest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many_a_true_word_is_spoken_in_...
- barryrandall 2y agoIIRC, nerds were the primary drivers of the search engine wars.
- t-writescode 2y agoThat said, 43k paying users is quite a bit of money, so if their team is small enough, that’s good enough, stable and steady income
- MostlyStable 2y agoYeah, my understanding is that they are trying (and I think I remember succeeding so far?) to be revenue positive/sustainable from the beginning, and not trying to rely on "grow and make money later" that other companies used. Which I prefer; I got burned by Neeva shutting down shortly after they started (for a pretty mild version of the word "burned", it cost me very little, but it was annoying).