I gave it a try and my first search got one match, 14 misses, and all other results are "Verifying..." but it seems stuck (it's been minutes). I can see why you cut your demo (please don't try to hide that it's so slow, especially since you seem to imply to be a Google competitor ("Google has gotten worse over time"), while your product is incomparably slower than Google; it's more like deep research).
Exa was originally just a search engine. They try to hide it these days to promote Websets, but you can still use it at https://exa.ai/search.
I joined recently, and live-streamed myself designing and shipping the new search frontend in 5h32m
https://x.com/LiamHinzman/status/1911244983291514941
Added a link to it on our homepage, thanks for pointing that out!
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> I can see why you cut your demo.
Can you please edit out swipes, as the site guidelines request (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)? Your comment would be just fine without that bit.
Everyone is familiar with how often software launches run into glitches, and there's no need to be uncharitable.
(If you didn't mean it as a swipe and I just misread you, feel free to edit your comment and I'll delete this when I'm back online.)
Edit: adding "no offense" doesn't change this.
However, I don't think it's fair for you to assume they're "trying to hide that it's so slow". There's no need to impute bad motives to people, and you don't have nearly enough information to justify such a claim.
What's wrong with simply reporting the problem that you're experiencing with the software? That would make your comment helpful, with no trace of a putdown.