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We're a little two-person team (Angie and Jem). We're bootstrapping and self-funded. I'm the programmer.
I wanted to share it because it was a fun and interesting project to build, and Python made it possible for us to get a long way as a small team. It uses serverless on the backend (AWS). We're using Spacy and GPT-2, and some PyTorch models. It uses BeautifulSoup for spidering/crawling/content retrieval. The front-end is React.
It has a different type of user interface to any other search engine, as it is chat based. And it lets you choose how you view results, either visually like an Instagram feed or cards, or minimal like Hacker News or the old Google. It tries to fight SEO spam and strips out ads and ad-tech from search results.
We have a project on GitHub with Jupyter notebooks and sample data with experiments and scripts, including examples of querying other search APIs, and to generate example utterances programatically to use for NLP models with sources like Wikipedia, StackOverflow and Wolfram|Alpha:
https://github.com/lazyweb-ai/lazyweb-experiments
We're only a small team but hope to share more of our work as open source as we progress.
LazyWeb was the name of our first prototype.
We changed the name to Andi after a ton of feedback from our community. That was already the name of our little bot 😎
Thanks so much to everyone who has tried out Andi or the earlier LazyWeb prototype.
We're building Andi and prioritizing what we work on based on talking with users. So a ton of the functionality in Andi is based directly on the feedback we got here on Reddit sharing these very early versions with the communities here.
Here are just a few of the more active earlier discussions about LazyWeb, included for anyone interested. You can see how much Andi's development has been directly guided by the feedback and ideas here.
Internet Is Beautiful:
Python:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/odhbql/new_search_engine_made_with_python_thats/
Artificial Intelligence:
Andi is a Y Combinator backed startup, and part of the Winter 2022 batch. We're one of the most popular launches on YC's new "Launch YC" site where they announce new startups. We'd really really appreciate your upvote love to support our work building an independent and private search engine that protects you from spam, ads and tracking. We're asking because it will help us getting the word out and getting support and partnerships to build ever better search results.
For early access to new features, the latest news about Andi, and discussion about the back-end workings of how Andi does it's thing, please feel warmly welcome to join the Andi Discord
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