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by jacobmarble 1817 days ago
I have been using Neeva for several weeks. It took a while to stop my eyes from scanning past "the fold" in search results. The useful stuff is right there at the top. I can't say enough good about my experience thus far.

I had a concern about search latency, so I emailed Sridhar at ceo@neeva.co and he replied in a few hours. We had a nice chat via email. Now I have a mug and a T-shirt.

I'm looking forward to paying $5/mo to be a customer, and not a product. Would happily pay $20/mo -- this is worth more to me than subscriptions like Netflix.
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kesslern 1817 days ago
I've been part of the beta for a few months now. It's overall pretty good. I'm on the fence about paying $5/mo for it, but I'll probably do it for awhile at least.

My biggest gripes are the Yelp and maps integrations. When I search for local restaurants or locations, the Neeva map integration rarely finds what I want. When it does, I see Yelp reviews which I regard as complete trash.

Incognito mode is also annoying on my phone. Since I'm not logged I can't search with Neeva which is my default search provider.

On the plus side, it generally gives better programming search results. I'm a big fan of the "official documentation" filter.

My ultimate hope is that Neeva is eventually able to crawl self-hosted services and return them in my search results. For example, I have all my recipes in a self-hosted Bookstack instance and I'd love a search for "taco seasoning" to come up with the recipe I saved.

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mdaniel 1817 days ago
> Incognito mode is also annoying on my phone. Since I'm not logged I can't search with Neeva which is my default search provider.

That's why I stopped using them (I was in some kind of preview cohort before this announcement); I just want to point out that can't isn't the right word -- it is for sure possible to authorize your use of their search engine without relying on cookies or localStorage or whatever, but they just have chosen not to

It turned me off when I was an alpha user, but it would make me tableflip if I was paying real money and they still didn't make any efforts toward solving that use case

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ElijahLynn 1817 days ago
> Would happily pay $20/mo -- this is worth more to me than subscriptions like Netflix.

I think I am on board with this thinking! The value provided by effective search is HUGE, way more than me binging on Netflix!

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