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Thankyou so much for creating and running SearchYC, sad to see it go. It was a really great resource and well executed!
Agreed. Thank you much for providing us with this great resource!
Thank you for running searchyc all of these years. It was a tremendously useful service.
SearchYC was an invaluable resource and a great tool - thanks for the work!
Instead of shutting down, can't you hand it off to someone? Please!
Seconded. I'd be happy to provide time+resources. Ideally, you should just open-source the code.
Instead of shutting down, can't you hand it off to someone? Please!

Just to be sure, you know search isn't going away right? Its now integrated in. I'm not sure an external search is currently needed.

Yes. I just like SearchYC a lot.
I liked the fact you could just type "searchyc.com/$queryString" and it would give the results.
That is the way I use it, much better than the new one that requires javascript to do everything.
Search is integrated? Where is it?
Scroll all the way down.
Is that a UI design pattern to decrease server load?

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with search in the footer, but it defies 15 years of convention and thus takes a big hit to discoverability.

it's basically unusable for anyone using an auto page loading extension like AutoPatchWork since the auto loaded next page replaces the bottom of the page.
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Or open source it? I was always really impressed by the results that SearchYC produced. I'm itching to have a look at what's under the hood.
+ 1. I also depend on searchyc's RSS feeds for specific searches. They're super helpful for keeping on top of specific projects.
SearchYC was no less than kickass. Thank you so much.
Amazing site and resource, thank you so much for your time running it. Really appreciated it.
Great tool all these years, thank you.
Would you be willing to release the extensive HN dataset you have collected?
With SearchYC gone, is there still a way to get an RSS feed for a user's comments?
Now we don't have comment scores I'm afraid I have to add:

^ this

I've been using SearchYC to archive my comments via the RSS feed. Can I do this some other way?

I echo the sentiment of many other HNers. Thank you for all the great work, and the invaluable resource. I can't count how many times it has served me in the past.

I wish you the very best - I am almost expecting something even more kickass out of you guys soon.

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SearchYC has actually been tremendously valuable to me and my startups in the past. Hacker News is such a treasure trove of information, anecdotes and friends and your service was the gateway to that.

I used SearchYC as my "google for startups" I honestly cannot reiterate how useful your service was. I wish you'd keep it going as I still use it over the Hacker News Search (habit, more features, search within search results, being able to search for specific comments from users, etc etc.)

A friend was having relationship problems in part due to his startup, and I explicitly remember him saying "I looked on SearchYC and found tons of other posts from founders in the same boat" (this was when you had the curated post categories)

Seriously, thanks. (my startup is kind of in crunch at the moment but I had been meaning to reach out to you guys when I saw your service went offline a few weeks ago, i couldn't let you guys go without me - and probably the majority of the community - giving you guys some thanks and credit)

Speaking of treasure troves, I hope someone outside YC is archiving HN, so that should something happen HN can be restored without depending on YC to be able/willing to restore it.

Of course, I trust YC to have their own backups as well.

Is this not ironic http://d.pr/x9Ri :)

Seriously though, all the best, and thanks for all the years of good service!

Not going to say nothing new, but it's been really useful for me. Thanks.
no time adding new feature is OK. but if it is hosting costs, HN users can donate or get a sponsor.

if you want a maintainer, I am willing to takeover from where you are leaving

There goes the arc forum search, until, maybe, we get our version of HNsearch.
Turn it into free software! It would be invaluable to the community and you would get a hell of a reputation for it I think, especially from hackernews users.
Can't thank you guys enough. If you have a paypal link where we can send you some beer money, I'm sure you'd collect a few rounds worth. Cheers!
If you still need rss feeds you could use http://jetsli.de (launching in ~2 weeks)

You will be able to search for 'geeky news' also on other services than hackernews.

Thanks guys. It helped me on more than one occasion.
It's still the better search interface. Hope you make the code available.

Thanks.