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SearchYC is shutting down (searchyc.com)
303 points by chengmi on June 27, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 59 comments


SearchYC has actually been tremendously valuable to me and my startups in the past. Hacker News is such a treasure trove of information, anecdotes and friends and your service was the gateway to that.

I used SearchYC as my "google for startups" I honestly cannot reiterate how useful your service was. I wish you'd keep it going as I still use it over the Hacker News Search (habit, more features, search within search results, being able to search for specific comments from users, etc etc.)

A friend was having relationship problems in part due to his startup, and I explicitly remember him saying "I looked on SearchYC and found tons of other posts from founders in the same boat" (this was when you had the curated post categories)

Seriously, thanks. (my startup is kind of in crunch at the moment but I had been meaning to reach out to you guys when I saw your service went offline a few weeks ago, i couldn't let you guys go without me - and probably the majority of the community - giving you guys some thanks and credit)


Speaking of treasure troves, I hope someone outside YC is archiving HN, so that should something happen HN can be restored without depending on YC to be able/willing to restore it.

Of course, I trust YC to have their own backups as well.


Thankyou so much for creating and running SearchYC, sad to see it go. It was a really great resource and well executed!


Agreed. Thank you much for providing us with this great resource!


"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." - Isaac Newton

I believe there are quite a few of us here at Hacker News that could claim you, Mike and Jerry, as our giants.

Respect.


Instead of shutting down, can't you hand it off to someone? Please!


Or open source it? I was always really impressed by the results that SearchYC produced. I'm itching to have a look at what's under the hood.


Instead of shutting down, can't you hand it off to someone? Please!

Just to be sure, you know search isn't going away right? Its now integrated in. I'm not sure an external search is currently needed.


Yes. I just like SearchYC a lot.


I liked the fact you could just type "searchyc.com/$queryString" and it would give the results.


That is the way I use it, much better than the new one that requires javascript to do everything.


Search is integrated? Where is it?


Scroll all the way down.


Is that a UI design pattern to decrease server load?

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with search in the footer, but it defies 15 years of convention and thus takes a big hit to discoverability.


How long has it existed? How did I miss this?


Yeah I nearly missed it too.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619736


it's basically unusable for anyone using an auto page loading extension like AutoPatchWork since the auto loaded next page replaces the bottom of the page.


http://www.hnsearch.com/search


+ 1. I also depend on searchyc's RSS feeds for specific searches. They're super helpful for keeping on top of specific projects.


Seconded. I'd be happy to provide time+resources. Ideally, you should just open-source the code.


Thank you for creating and maintaining SearchYC these last few years. I used it more than any site except, well, HN. (My apologies for the server load.)


Would you be willing to release the extensive HN dataset you have collected?


Thank you for running searchyc all of these years. It was a tremendously useful service.


With SearchYC gone, is there still a way to get an RSS feed for a user's comments?


Now we don't have comment scores I'm afraid I have to add:

^ this

I've been using SearchYC to archive my comments via the RSS feed. Can I do this some other way?


Not RSS but you can get the data in JSON format using HNSearch.

This will give your 10 most recent comments: http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte...

Documentation here to tweak for your needs: http://www.hnsearch.com/api

EDIT: Added filter to return only comments; previously included submissions, too.


I echo the sentiment of many other HNers. Thank you for all the great work, and the invaluable resource. I can't count how many times it has served me in the past.

I wish you the very best - I am almost expecting something even more kickass out of you guys soon.


SearchYC was an invaluable resource and a great tool - thanks for the work!


I'm sad to see it go. I use it every week when creating my Hacker Newsletter and since it has been down I've had a hard time using HNSearch as effectively. Search really was just one component to it, it also had a great way to browse Ask HN threads.


Turn it into free software! It would be invaluable to the community and you would get a hell of a reputation for it I think, especially from hackernews users.


I'm deeply unhappy to see you guys close down. My experience is that your results are easier to use and more accurate. Just one instance of an annoyance is here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2704753

But although I wish you would continue to include SearchYC in your future work, I wish you all the best in whatever you put your time and efforts towards.


Can't thank you guys enough. If you have a paypal link where we can send you some beer money, I'm sure you'd collect a few rounds worth. Cheers!


SearchYC has been an invaluable tool for me. It's easily tripled the value I've gotten from Hacker News.

Thank you for all your work on it.


SearchYC was no less than kickass. Thank you so much.


Amazing site and resource, thank you so much for your time running it. Really appreciated it.


no time adding new feature is OK. but if it is hosting costs, HN users can donate or get a sponsor.

if you want a maintainer, I am willing to takeover from where you are leaving


Is this not ironic http://d.pr/x9Ri :)

Seriously though, all the best, and thanks for all the years of good service!


Don't know how to rephrase what's already been said so I'll just say it again. Thanks so much for providing an awesome service!


Great tool all these years, thank you.


SearchYC -- particularly the ability to sort results by date -- has been very useful to me.


If you still need rss feeds you could use http://jetsli.de (launching in ~2 weeks)

You will be able to search for 'geeky news' also on other services than hackernews.


It was a really useful and great tool. I used it a lot. Thank you!


Thanks to everyone involved. It was invaluable.


Thank you so much for creating SearchYC. I loved it. When I research something, SearchYC is a great resource. Respect.


What did SearchYC give you over a google search like "site:news.ycombinator.com <search term>"?


Thanks a lot, i lost count of the hours i spent in searchyc searching for old threads, simply great.


I especially loved the Ask HN archives -- they are undoubtedly the best advice for entrepreneurs.


Thanks for creating this, guys. Any chance you might consider sticking your code on Github?


There goes the arc forum search, until, maybe, we get our version of HNsearch.


Maybe Greplin could swoop in and fill this void. It would be nice of them.


There is a search at the bottom of HN now


Not going to say nothing new, but it's been really useful for me. Thanks.


http://www.hnsearch.com/


It's still the better search interface. Hope you make the code available.

Thanks.


Thanks guys. It helped me on more than one occasion.


Thank you!


Thank You


Thank you!


Thanks guys!




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