Comment by tinyhouse
1 year ago
Nice work! I'm sure you know that you can also search Google with site:https://news.ycombinator.com. If I were you I would probably think of a niche where one can get better results by searching HN and other relevant data sources. Another suggestion is not about the search so much but about the UI. One of the worse things about sites like HN is that it's really hard to follow a long thread. If you can fix that by doing some data transformation and build a nice UI for search results, it'd be pretty useful. Good luck!
Thanks for the feedback!
One big distinction with the "site:https://news.ycombinator.com" hack is that the search on Hacker Search directly runs against the underlying link's contents, rather than whatever happens to be on HN. We also more directly leverage HN's curation by factoring in scores.
Appreciate your suggestions; will look into building those!