Runnaroo
Web and SaaS
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SHOW HN2020
20points
16comments
#1,694of 3,028 in 2020
Top 56%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
4 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.41.
Design: 3 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, minimal design
From 3 comments
I like the design. I wonder if I would prefer it over Googles design in the long run. My first impression is that I prefer the clean design of Runnaroo. Not sure if I would miss…
FreeHugs on HNThere's no pagination now, but I like the design. It feels like a breeze!
42yeah1 on HNNice! Bookmarked, will take it for a spin today.
nmfisher on HN
Google bang support makes switching easy
From 2 comments
Looks great, the only thing I ask is that you add a google band so I can quickly get back to google for local results that you won’t be able to accommodate for a while. Every…
vxNsr on HNThank you! I should have said that in my original post. Search !bangs work for Google, Bings, DDG, Yandex, and Baidu. Navigational !bangs also work for many top sites (e.g.…
chris_f on HN
Objections
No pagination yet
From 2 comments
Interesting project! Why does it say "About 7,690,000,000 results" but there's only 10 results available?
gitgud on HNThere's no pagination now, but I like the design. It feels like a breeze!
42yeah1 on HN
Monetization via ads is unclear and hard to do privately
From 2 comments
Building your own ad network sounds hard, especially the part where you convince people to buy ads there instead of Google (or on top of, but it's less about the CPC than the…
luckylion on HNAgree on all fronts. I was really hoping that something already existed that would just work, but I couldn't find anything that fit the bill. I assumed that with GDPR (and now…
chris_f on HN
Requests
Add more vertical search sources
From 1 comment
I like the design. I wonder if I would prefer it over Googles design in the long run. My first impression is that I prefer the clean design of Runnaroo. Not sure if I would miss…
FreeHugs on HN
Questions
Is it scraping Google or using an API, and how will it make money?
From 1 comment
Are you scraping Google's SERPs or do you pay them for API access? If it's API, how do you plan to monetize?
luckylion on HN
Why does the result count not match the results shown?
From 1 comment
Interesting project! Why does it say "About 7,690,000,000 results" but there's only 10 results available?
gitgud on HN
Alternatives named
Google
From 2 comments
I like the design. I wonder if I would prefer it over Googles design in the long run. My first impression is that I prefer the clean design of Runnaroo. Not sure if I would miss…
FreeHugs on HNLooks great, the only thing I ask is that you add a google band so I can quickly get back to google for local results that you won’t be able to accommodate for a while. Every…
vxNsr on HN
DuckDuckGo
From 1 comment
Looks great, the only thing I ask is that you add a google band so I can quickly get back to google for local results that you won’t be able to accommodate for a while. Every…
vxNsr on HN
StartPage
From 1 comment