Hi HN! I made this little project because I wanted a way to easily search for things in specific years, so I’d be able to search web history, or backdated articles or stuff like that. Search A Year lets you just search for anything, but can target current, or historical years. I’ve found it helpful when searching for recent answers to questions about the best products to buy, or for finding older results.
Also, fwiw, we built OldestSearch.com a few months ago, and it had some novelty and HN seemed to like it, but it made me think it’d be interesting to build something similar with a bit more utility.