symonda

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by symonda 3y ago
I think there are quite a few startups in this sector, see for instance: https://www.symonda.com/search?query=buildings+construction
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by symonda 3y ago
Our goal is to help people discover, test and validate startup ideas. We believe that a powerful free-text search engine is the best way to achieve this. At this time, we focus on helping people find companies via their product and service
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by symonda 3y ago
I was is in a similar position some time ago (albeit with a very different product). Long story short: Understanding the complexities of why a certain problem remains under-addressed was difficult in our case. As a result, we ended up pivot
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by symonda 3y ago
This is an interesting point. User managed or curated indices offer unique advantages, especially when 'depth of coverage' is more important than 'breadth of coverage'. I believe that we are witnessing people shift away
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by symonda 3y ago
This is a good point. The problem is that it is very hard to make a living serving high-quality results which is likely why ad-funded search still dominates. The vast majority of the world will likely never want to pay for search on its own
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by symonda 3y ago
Interesting example. This type of information is hard to find so the revenue model definitely makes sense. For many other types of search, the data collection isn't the hard part, instead the difficulty is to make sense of the unstruct
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Ask HN: Alternative revenue models for search engines?
2 points by symonda 3y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Worldwide Startup Search Engine(symonda.com)
6 points by symonda 3y ago|0 comments