[gfody]

it's weird you consider this a failure. you spent a few months and learned how to work with embedding models to build an efficient search. the fact that your search works well is a successful outcome. if your goal was to turn a few month effort into a thriving business that's never going to happen period - it only seems possible because when it does happen for people we completely discount the luck factor.

if you want to turn your search into a business now that's a new and different effort, mostly marketing and stuff that most self respecting engineers gives zero shits about, but if that's your real goal don't call it a failure yet because you haven't even tried.

[zxt_tzx]

> it's weird you consider this a failure. you spent a few months and learned how to work with embedding models to build an efficient search. the fact that your search works well is a successful outcome.

Thank you for your encouragement! I take your point that it was not a technical failure, but I think it's still a product failure in the sense that SemHub was not solving a big enough pain point for sufficiently many people.

> if you want to turn your search into a business now that's a new and different effort, mostly marketing and stuff that most self respecting engineers gives zero shits about, but if that's your real goal don't call it a failure yet because you haven't even tried.

Haha to be honest, my goal was even more modest, SemHub is intended to be a free tool for people to use, we don't intend to monetize it. I also did try to market it (DMing people, Show HN), but the initial users who tried it did not stick around.

Sure, I could've marketed SemHub more, but I think the best ideas carry within themselves a certain virality and I don't think this is it.