> Search, on the other hand, still has massive room for improvement. Broadly agree. For what Google does in search, say, first-cut, keywords/phrases and resu

> Search, on the other hand, still has massive room for improvement. Broadly agree. For what Google does in search, say, first-cut, keywords/phrases and results sorted by a measure of gross popularity, page rank, and date (but, for a second-cut, clearly now with a lot of refining tweaks), it seems to me that they are doing a terrific job. But as far as I can tell, Bing is doing about the same. So, if are looking for something, have a few keywords/phrases that fairly accurately characterize what want, then Google/Bing can work well. They can be just terrific. But that scenario does at best poorly on a significant fraction of ("safe for work") search. For this fraction, there are a lot of approaches, Web sites, etc. but nothing very good. For this fraction, I worked out some new techniques and wrote the corresponding software. For where Google/Bing work well, and often they are just terrific, my work will usually not be as good and only occasionally better. But for nearly all of the fraction of "at best poorly", my work should be quite good and much better than anything else. My work is different, very different, and I believe that being so different is necessary (clearly not sufficient) for success in the fraction I am attacking. Currently I'm loading some initial data. Then ..., maybe people will like it. Of course, with all the usual start-up advice, my work is doomed to fail because I'm a solo founder if don't count my kitty cats! And, I'm not a college dropout. I didn't even drop out of grad school and did get my Ph.D. And I'm past 30. So, right, doomed! But being successful at what I'm attempting would be exceptional; so we have to expect that much of my project is not the usual. So be it. I have some fairly good reasons to believe that my work should be successful; no way am I doing this just "on a wing and a prayer". What do you think? Announce a private beta test here on HN? Get feedback? Get it working well. Polish the UI/UX. Go live, get more publicity, run ads, grow?