Launch HN: Hello (YC S22) – A search engine for developers
First Impressions:<p>* I won&#x27;t use a different search engine for programmers stuff vs everything else. So while this might be targeted toward software developers I can&#x27;t see myself using it unless it can handle normal searches.<p>* UI&#x2F;UX - I hate the progress bar, I&#x27;m not sure at all what it&#x27;s telling me as there are results shown while it&#x27;s still completing. The results are way too spaced out. On my 27&quot; 2K screen I can only see 3 results, the search bar takes up way too much space and there is way too much padding on the results. Don&#x27;t move the DOM on me, removing the progress bar is jarring as is &quot;Was this answer helpful?&quot; popping in, I&#x27;m here for results, not to train your ML.<p>* Trackers - Using the default installs of Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin meant no results ever loaded. I&#x27;m not sure what was being blocked that caused the issue but cookies from bing [0] and a request to cloudflareinsights.com [1] should not hamper showing results.<p>Search is a tool and one that I need to be quick, simple, and informationally dense. This checks almost none of those boxes. I&#x27;m even open to using a different search engine (I semi-recently switched from Google to Ecosia and it&#x27;s been near-seamless), but I don&#x27;t see any &quot;pro&quot; to using this engine and I see a ton of &quot;cons&quot;.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.joshstrange.com&#x2F;V5uiyM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.joshstrange.com&#x2F;V5uiyM</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.joshstrange.com&#x2F;GkPuap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.joshstrange.com&#x2F;GkPuap</a><p>EDIT: I did a few more searches because I realized I wasn&#x27;t getting the &quot;info box&quot;&#x2F;ML results on my first few searches and I wanted to be fair. Sorry but that made me dislike this even more. I really, really hate content moving out from under me. My eyes start reading one of the 3 results that was shown then they got pushed down for another overly-padded box that tried to &quot;answer&quot; my question. The results were worse than &quot;grab the selected answer from the first SO that matches this query&quot;. Maybe it would be better if that info was shown off to the side and didn&#x27;t move the results when it loaded in but again, I didn&#x27;t find it useful in the queries where it showed up.<p>EDIT2: I posted a follow up comment about what, specifically, I think should be changed: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32005841" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32005841</a>