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What a positive surprise, I wasn't expecting something like this tbh. The UX is amazing.

I will use it for sure with some additional and essentials features for me at least:

- Ability to add and remove some columns: I have no interest in using Instagram or Twitter in my search results and I have interest in using Stackoverflow or HN for example.

- Ability to customize the width of each column for desktop: I have read in your about us page that you clearly state that “Mobile is primary”, however I would be interested in using it on my desktop on a daily basis and it would be nice to have the google column wider than the others for example.

- Possibility to customize the order of the columns: I think this is an obvious one.

Do you have any of these changes in mind for the future?

Congrats!

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:) happy it was a good surprise! Thank you for the nice words.

Ok just added option to disable Instagram and Twitter from ▼ menu on the right of the search input. Let me know if that works good for you! Stackoverflow is there right now. Not sure how best to trigger HN, let me know if you have any suggestions on that. Probably not good to show it all the time.

I did test the Google column wider for a couple of weeks, but ended up changing it the same as the other columns. Design wise it came out that consistency was a lot more valuable for UX. Let me know after you use it for a while and get use to things, I will reconsider adding this if it still would help you!

On ordering, you mean manually? Right now I am trying to do that all automatically without thinking or manual settings, and trying to optimize for relevancy. Let me know more about your problems or ideas here.

For changes, right now based on all the feedback, seems like I should consider more sources, sort options, and dark mode?

Nice! much better now without Instagram and Twitter (at least for me), good job!

I'm going to give the Google results column with the same width a try, maybe you are right. I think it also depends on the specific user’s screen size. In any case, I would recommend you let each user decide the width of the columns.

About ordering, yes, I was referring to manually, but I hadn’t thought in automatically mode tbh, but based on relevance it is probably best as you mention now that I think twice about it. I don’t know how easy or hard is to implement this feature the right way though, it may even depend on each user specific search habits, but it just a thought.

And regarding changes, yes, those would be the must-have, highest priority, and most valuable features you can add imo.

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