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Show HN: Scry, programmable internet search w/ congestion pricing

61 points · 26 comments · Xyra

  1. ashkankiani · · focus · HN ↗
    Cool idea. The pricing model reminds me of my time working in algorithmic trading, haha. I'll try this out for some queries I wanted to run.

    I suppose the scraping you're doing is a huge part of your value proposition, but I would like to gently nudge you in the direction of making the datasets available via p2p (e.g. a torrent) like how Wikipedia distributes its snapshots in the spirit of democratizing access to data that is becoming increasingly walled off. Also, I think another potential benefit that kind of bulk sharing would have is relieving the congestion from those doing the equivalent operation to extract data via the querying interface.

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