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SearchYC is shutting down
- timf 15y agoThankyou so much for creating and running SearchYC, sad to see it go. It was a really great resource and well executed!
- tibbon 15y agoAgreed. Thank you much for providing us with this great resource!
- loschorts 15y agoThank you for running searchyc all of these years. It was a tremendously useful service.
- staunch 15y agoThanks guys!
- brown9-2 15y agoSearchYC was an invaluable resource and a great tool - thanks for the work!
- kirubakaran 15y agoInstead of shutting down, can't you hand it off to someone? Please!
- aditya 15y agoSeconded. I'd be happy to provide time+resources. Ideally, you should just open-source the code.
- mikeryan 15y agoInstead 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.
- kirubakaran 15y agoYes. I just like SearchYC a lot.
- rudiger 15y agoSearch is integrated? Where is it?
- JshWright 15y agoScroll all the way down.
- mortenjorck 15y agoIs 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.
- bradleyland 15y agoOr 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.
- jashkenas 15y ago+ 1. I also depend on searchyc's RSS feeds for specific searches. They're super helpful for keeping on top of specific projects.
- markbao 15y agoSearchYC was no less than kickass. Thank you so much.
- shii 15y agoAmazing site and resource, thank you so much for your time running it. Really appreciated it.
- fastfinner 15y agoGreat tool all these years, thank you.
- c4urself 15y agoThank you!
- mikeklaas 15y agoWould you be willing to release the extensive HN dataset you have collected?
- ivank 15y agoWith SearchYC gone, is there still a way to get an RSS feed for a user's comments?
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoNow 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?
- detst 15y agoNot 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?filter[fields][username][]=pbhjpbhj&filter[fields][type][]=comment&sortby=create_ts%20desc&pretty_print=true http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte... Documentation here to tweak for your needs: http://www.hnsearch.com/api http://www.hnsearch.com/api EDIT: Added filter to return only comments; previously included submissions, too.
- raju 15y agoI 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.
- tamersalama 15y agoThank You
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- pclark 15y agoSearchYC 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)
- nayanga 15y agohttp://www.hnsearch.com/ http://www.hnsearch.com/
- gnosis 15y agoSpeaking 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.
- jmonegro 15y agoIs this not ironic http://d.pr/x9Ri http://d.pr/x9Ri :) Seriously though, all the best, and thanks for all the years of good service!
- ghostDancer 15y agoNot going to say nothing new, but it's been really useful for me. Thanks.
- senthilnayagam 15y agono 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
- Typhon 15y agoThere goes the arc forum search, until, maybe, we get our version of HNsearch.
- omouse 15y agoTurn 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.
- wallflower 15y agoThank you!
- dschobel 15y agoCan'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!
- karussell 15y agoIf you still need rss feeds you could use http://jetsli.de http://jetsli.de (launching in ~2 weeks) You will be able to search for 'geeky news' also on other services than hackernews.
- OoTheNigerian 15y agoThanks guys. It helped me on more than one occasion.
- brndnhy 15y agoIt's still the better search interface. Hope you make the code available. Thanks.
- ltamake 15y agoThanks for creating this, guys. Any chance you might consider sticking your code on Github?
- patio11 15y agoThank 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.)
- JayNeely 15y agoSearchYC 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.
- duck 15y agoI'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.
- Estragon 15y agoWhat did SearchYC give you over a google search like "site:news.ycombinator.com <search term>"?
- nayanga 15y agohttp://www.hnsearch.com/ http://www.hnsearch.com/
- savrajsingh 15y agoMaybe Greplin could swoop in and fill this void. It would be nice of them.
- immad 15y agoThere is a search at the bottom of HN now
- edw519 15y ago"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.
- tstegart 15y agoThanks to everyone involved. It was invaluable.
- keeptrying 15y agoIt was a really useful and great tool. I used it a lot. Thank you!
- yosho 15y agoDon'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!
- hollerith 15y agoSearchYC -- particularly the ability to sort results by date -- has been very useful to me.
- paraschopra 15y agoI especially loved the Ask HN archives -- they are undoubtedly the best advice for entrepreneurs.
- keke_ta 15y agoThank you so much for creating SearchYC. I loved it. When I research something, SearchYC is a great resource. Respect.
- drtse4 15y agoThanks a lot, i lost count of the hours i spent in searchyc searching for old threads, simply great.
- ColinWright 15y agoI'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 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.