Since you were part of YC 21, could you share a bit about your pivots/product iterations you went through over the last 4 years?
- 2022: Consumer-facing embeddings search (back when we were known as Metaphor)
- 2023: Web search for AIs - once the AI ecosystem heated up, we made a business out of web search + crawling API. This is still our primary business.
- Now: Websets, a useful product built on top of our search tech
If you're curious, our company right now is fully devoted to:
1. Dramatically improving Websets quality
2. Building the best general search engine in the world
The incentive structure behind paying by the search has diminishing returns, as I see it. You need the results to be of a high enough quality to drive the user to want to run another search with you. Beyond that point, though, in the absence of a direct competitor, where is the incentive for you to continue improving search result quality? M