Show HN: Twitter profile search that works
thepeoplenet.comHey HN,
I’m Jeremy, one of the co-founders of People Net (YC W24). We’re building an AI search engine for people (https://www.thepeoplenet.com/).
Currently, search engines view the Internet as a collection of webpages. So unless you search for someone’s name, most “people search” queries fail [1].
We see the internet as a collection of people.
At the People Net, we’re making every person on the Internet easy to find.
Our first step is a Twitter profile search that actually works.
Try it now: https://www.thepeoplenet.com/
Current Progress: 0.08% of internet citizens indexed (4mil / ~5.5bil)
[1]: <comparison> Query: “Professors building companies in the Bay Area”
Big G: https://www.google.com/search?q=Professors+building+companie...
Little P: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/professors-building-compani...
ChatBotGPT: https://chatgpt.com/share/68093be4-cc6c-8007-9f50-2e9ec49c86... ** Not bad, but restricted to only famous (wikipedia-page-worthy) people
X dot com: https://x.com/search?q=professors%20building%20companies%20i...
thepeoplenet.com:
https://www.thepeoplenet.com/?q=professors%20building%20comp...
</comparison> How frequently are the profiles ingested? Would you pick up the change I made to mine earlier today?
How is AI used in this? I can find something I'm thinking of only if I use exact terms that I already know are there, which kind of defeats the point. If I use fuzzy terms I don't get useful results. If I use single words, eg. people with Hanafuda in their profile, the results are totally irrelevant. It would be good if the site showed it was searching. If I issue a new query there's no feedback that something is happening until the page changes, you're just stuck looking at irrelevant old results from the previous query.