Hacker News: richardsocher

New comment by richardsocher in "Ask HN: Has ChatGPT gotten worse at coding for anyone else?"

richardsocher — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 07:47:05 +0000

We've just incorporated our Stackoverflow app into you.com/chat Would love to get your feedback.

New comment by richardsocher in "Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing"

richardsocher — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 09:29:44 +0000

Few details but sounds a little like what we've just launched at you.com?

New comment by richardsocher in "Kagi – Paid Search Engine"

richardsocher — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 01:43:17 +0000

Thanks. We'll look into both of these (plans and design).

New comment by richardsocher in "Kagi – Paid Search Engine"

richardsocher — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 09:26:17 +0000

If there's a lot of interest, we'd be happy to offer a monthly paid plan also. It's interesting. Only on HN do we hear users asking to pay for an otherwise free service. Majority of our users everywhere else would never pay for search.

youChat will get a lot better in the coming months

I think it would be wonderful!

Richard from you.com here.

New comment by richardsocher in "A new chat feature has been released by You Search"

richardsocher — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:42:44 +0000

Sorry, the model is not yet self-aware nor aware of you.com - We will feed it better information about ourselves soon.

For now, you can read about all the answers on of FAQ site: https://about.you.com/ - which will soon get a design overhaul also... The joys of a startup.

# Richard from you.com here.

New comment by richardsocher in "A new chat feature has been released by You Search"

richardsocher — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 02:05:10 +0000

Great idea! We'll look into that.

New comment by richardsocher in "A new chat feature has been released by You Search"

richardsocher — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 01:35:33 +0000

Yea, anybody can build a breakthrough app for you.com to show in the SERP: https://you.com/developers

We hope to grow this new kind of search engine/portal together with the community and then incorporate chat+apps+links into a new kind of experience.

New comment by richardsocher in "A new chat feature has been released by You Search"

richardsocher — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 01:32:55 +0000

Hey,

Yea. These are valid concerns. We care a lot about privacy and are making public statements and commitments to it.

Technically any privacy-focused business (proton, ddg, etc) could pivot and change their mind but the hope is that by starting with those commitments potential future shareholders would understand that the erosion of trust would hurt the brand and not push for it?

New comment by richardsocher in "A new chat feature has been released by You Search"

richardsocher — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 00:25:57 +0000

Richard from you.com here.

We want to stay free and open to everyone so we will explore private ads (not user dependent, only based on query, not tracking, similar to DDG) and useful monetized apps like youWrite or youImagine (ie stable diffusion).

If there's enough interest, we can also open up a paid account without ads.

New comment by richardsocher in "A new chat feature has been released by You Search"

richardsocher — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 00:13:37 +0000

Do you have ideas for how we can make the citations more likely to be used?

It does seem like the biggest failure cases of chat are happening when we have not yet incorporated one of our apps (like weather or directions).

Richard from YOU here.

New comment by richardsocher in "You.com opens up search platform to generative apps"

richardsocher — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:46:04 +0000

Happy to answer questions that folks have here. (founder here)

New comment by richardsocher in "Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam"

richardsocher — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:31:26 +0000

you.com CEO here. We let people give feedback on which major content blocks they want to see and soon will let developers add their own search-apps also. We believe in an open platform you can control, for the future of search.

New comment by richardsocher in "Ask HN: What search engines are you using?"

richardsocher — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:00:52 +0000

you.com CEO here.

We are seeing a lot of growth and retention with developers on https://you.com/code You can vote on which search-apps you like and soon block or pin them completely. You will also be able to submit your own search-apps soon. We believe in an open platform for search.

New comment by richardsocher in "Stadia died because no one trusts Google"

richardsocher — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:16:11 +0000

We're growing a lot at you.com

New comment by richardsocher in "Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG"

richardsocher — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 06:47:35 +0000

I'm gonna throw you.com (i'm a co-founder) into that mix. We've been growing a lot and have a private mode that stores nothing at all.

What audit would you suggest for us to prove that statement? It would be great to have a some independent party verify this.

New comment by richardsocher in "My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google"

richardsocher — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 21:41:44 +0000

We've indexed billions of pages already at you.com to avoid this situation. The majority of our apps like Stackoverflow and Medium etc, we've indexed ourselves.

New comment by richardsocher in "My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google"

richardsocher — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 21:40:54 +0000

We've been working on many of these suggestions at you.com

Giving users control over their search results is a big part of fighting SEO spam.

New comment by richardsocher in "Ask HN: Google Search down?"

richardsocher — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 05:10:03 +0000

Good time to switch to a search engine that has code snippets, coding tutorials, AI code completion, AI blog writing, a useful yelp app, great privacy, gives control over the sources and apps I want to see and summarizes pros/cons for products.

you.com

(founder here :)

New comment by richardsocher in "We're improving search results when you use quotes"

richardsocher — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 01:08:38 +0000

Would love to hear from you if we succeeded with both at you.com - we've worked a bunch on these issues you outline.

New comment by richardsocher in "We're improving search results when you use quotes"

richardsocher — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 00:05:23 +0000

That's why at you.com we made private mode accessible without any login. And we don't even do analytics and do not store your query in private mode.

(richard, ceo of you.com here)