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I can implement Discord threads! If anyone has any suggestions of what other threads to aggregate, let me know. The main issue I have to overcome is latency getting too high when retrieving form different places at once.

Additionally, I chose to avoid AI as I have picked up from a lot of people that Google’s AI features have more or less ruined it. Do you think there is a way that I could use AI here that wouldn’t ruin things?

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You may have to start building your own reverse index if you're polling API's at query time

"The main issue I have to overcome is latency getting too high when retrieving form different places at once." The solution for that is maintaining and updating an index. (Although that drives up costs.)

Google has done a terrible job, but perplexity has done a pretty good job. I think there's quite a bit to be gained by summing/extracting desired information from threads. I'm thinking opinions on choosing tech stacks (eg, "should i use sql or nosql", "fastAPI vs supabase"...), or even fixing bugs (on that note, if you're going after tech, github might be another to look at).

I defitley agree there's a ton of noise in discussions, I think LLM's are the current best way to cut through that noise.

I had no intention of making a search engine, I really just envisioned a place to combine threads from different platforms and figured out along the way that it looked exactly like search.

This seems to be an overcrowded market so I would be afraid to just "make a search engine". It seems difficult to me at the moment how exactly I can make ThreadQuilt a unique value proposition if I take that route.

If AI is the differentiator, then I would absolutely want to integrate it.

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