Phind.com Is Shutting Down (phind.com)

That's a surprise given they did a Launch HN 40 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137548

What happened? 40 Days ago they did a Launch HN. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137548

For me the point when things started to went south is when they swiched from gpt4 to phind-70b as driver behind their answers.

I would rather have exected they make a deal with OpenAI or Anthropic, ... and use one of their models at discount while improving the search functionality.

Got a "please come back we'll give you a discount" email a week or so back. I guess that was last attempt to stabilize things.

Whenever search engines shut down like this with no explanation, it reminds me of this article in 2600 magazine: https://archive.org/details/search-timeline

Phind shut down because its small team failed to listen to the community, with minimal engagement from Michael on Discord. Michael is known for a "vibe-heavy" work style, making grand promises but missing every deadline. He proved to be smooth-talking, using sweet words to placate users, a pattern that was glaringly obvious to anyone in the community. Furthermore, the product was largely an API wrapper with a lagging model. Their strategy was highly inconsistent, switching from Qwen to GLM in a short time, showing a complete lack of direction.

A great tool will be missed. I wrote an eulogy if someone wants to pay their last respects. https://intelligenttools.co/blog/improved-phind-shutdown-pos...

Man this one hurt, I try to avoid AI, but felt this project was really helpful. Someone else commented about how this maybe unsustainable without Mega Corp funding and they maybe right. It's scary that we are losing more and more alternatives to the Google's of the world...

Ouch.