Launch HN: Andi (YC W22) – Q&A based, ad-free, anti-spam search engine
Hi HN, we're Angie and Jed, and we're building Andi ( https://andisearch.com ), a new type of search engine with an AI assistant that answers complex questions, and gives you tools to fight spam and ad tech. There has been a lot of discussion on HN recently about how Google search is dying. If you do a Google search in a category like finance or health, the results are overwhelmed with spam, clickbait and ads. That's what we're working to fix. For us, the problem is personal. I'm a programmer who also trained and worked as a journalist and built a media SaaS startup. I watched first-hand as the media industry not-so-slowly starved, my startup failed, and my friends lost jobs and businesses. Google took all the revenue as media turned to trash, and ad tech, clickbait and content marketing took over the Internet, and made using the web awful. With Andi, w
Why it failed
Hi HN, we're Angie and Jed, and we're building Andi ( https://andisearch.com ), a new type of search engine with an AI assistant that answers complex questions, and gives you tools to fight spam and ad tech. There has been a lot of discussion on HN recently ab
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- jedwhite
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews