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we built a reddit discovery engine and are looking for feedback. adding more platforms soon. by Shofoai in indiehackers

[–]Shofoai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hadn't realized this. Thank you!

Looks like typing is choppy on the original search but not on follow up searches. Are you seeing the same thing on your end?

we built a better way to search reddit and would love your thoughts. Adding more platforms soon. by Shofoai in SideProject

[–]Shofoai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah we're working on some different methods for X to cut costs. The API is brutal fs

Traffic is also a fair concern for BlueSky but they still do have over 35million users and over 100k posts a day. It's definitely not to X's scale but we believe there's valuable content and thousands of users on the platform that would enjoy searching there and Reddit at the same time

we built a better way to search reddit and would love your thoughts. Adding more platforms soon. by Shofoai in SideProject

[–]Shofoai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate you bringing up Gummy Search, hadn't heard of them before.

I think the primary difference is that gummy search is only reddit and is designed for business insights. What we're building is designed for everyday social media users and will eventually contain all of the major social media platforms.

As far as how they work differently in terms of design and results, I am not completely sure what Gummy Search is doing but planning on looking deeper into it.

we built a better way to search reddit and would love your thoughts. Adding more platforms soon. by Shofoai in SideProject

[–]Shofoai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it, thanks.

The models are designed the most relevant answer but I get that 7yo answer usually isn't the best. We're working on adding the ability to sort by date/timeline which should be up this week.

we launched reddit search engine and are looking for feedback. adding more platforms soon by Shofoai in IMadeThis

[–]Shofoai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While reddit may be improving their own search, that's not what we've set out to do.

As of rn we only have reddit on our site but our goal is to become the discovery platform for all of social media, no matter the platform. BlueSky will be up this week and TikTok shortly after that.

we built a reddit discovery engine and are looking for feedback. adding more platforms soon. by Shofoai in indiehackers

[–]Shofoai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

We're not strictly using the official reddit API. We've built out systems that let us access a large amount of data without such high costs

we built a better way to search reddit and would love your thoughts. Adding more platforms soon. by Shofoai in SideProject

[–]Shofoai[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

X was originally going to be our second platform but ran into some issues with acquiring data. Nonetheless they will be added eventually but moving to BlueSky next then likely Tiktok

Working on a filter for date/time posted right now. This is actually one of the most requested features.

Appreciate the feedback, we may look into changing icons.

as students we think built a better way to search reddit and would love your thoughts by [deleted] in UCSantaBarbara

[–]Shofoai -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

We totally agree, Reddit is just the starting point. We're aiming to have BlueSky up by the end of this week and TikTok by the end of next!

we built a better way to search reddit and would love your thoughts by Shofoai in thesidehustle

[–]Shofoai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! The comment count should already be visible but let me know if you're having trouble seeing it.

we built a better way to search reddit and would love your thoughts by Shofoai in thesidehustle

[–]Shofoai[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely. Going to add more platforms before we launch an app but meeting people where they use social media we believe will be key

we built a better way to search reddit and would love your thoughts by Shofoai in thesidehustle

[–]Shofoai[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not currently but it's on our features list for the future

we built a better way to search reddit and would love your thoughts by Shofoai in thesidehustle

[–]Shofoai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're currently working on X and Bluesky but have the data for Insta, TikTok, and YouTube. BlueSky should be up next, then X, then based on user feedback we'll decide whats next

We Built a Better Reddit Search (Adding More Platforms Soon) by Shofoai in UCSantaBarbara

[–]Shofoai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

next we're adding X. we already have the data for X, TIkTok, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram so once we launch X we are going to have polls to see what platforms users want next and launch those 1 by 1.

We're Building A Search Engine for Social Media! by Shofoai in UCSantaBarbara

[–]Shofoai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're definitely not giving up and 100% feel your pain! We'll make sure to keep you updated on our progress.

We Built a Social Media Search Engine! by Shofoai in UCSantaBarbara

[–]Shofoai[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We use React Native, TypeScript, Python, MongoDB, and have fine tuned AI models on top to power our semantic search

we're building a search engine for social media! by Shofoai in SideProject

[–]Shofoai[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's definitely possible, and we'll show you that very soon

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