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by qiongzhouh 807 days ago
What's happening here is that we put your search query into a model that tries to figure out what skincare product characteristics (e.g. Vitamin C, Retinol, etc) would be good for you, but when it sees something that isn't a skincare product or a skincare concern, it gets confused and doesn't return anything.

I'll put in an error handler for this soon.
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yellow_lead 807 days ago
This is something I ran into as well, mainly bc of your title and description. I tried it before reading your whole post, so I didn't know it's only skincare for now.

> Launch HN: Lumona (YC W24) – Product search based on Reddit and YouTube reviews

> Hey HN! We are Lumona (https://lumona.ai), a product search engine

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qiongzhouh 807 days ago
Sorry for the confusion, we'll try to have general products soon.

I just pushed a change to give an error message explaining what's happening for non-skincare related searches.

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yellow_lead 807 days ago
No worries, I'm excited to use it when that happens!
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