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I almost added full-text search. I'm glad I didn't.

DEV Community·Alex Morgan·22 days ago
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When I started tracking AI releases for my own use, the first feature request from the first person who found the site was: "can you add search?" The obvious answer was yes. Full-text search on 332+ AI releases feels like a must-have. Every content site has it. I even opened an Algolia account. Then I stopped and thought about what people actually do when they land on the feed. They don't arrive with a specific release in mind. They arrive wanting to know: "what dropped this week in the models space?" or "any interesting open-source repos lately?" or "what tools are getting traction?" That's a browsing pattern, not a searching pattern. The decision Instead of full-text search, I added 5 category filters: models — 65 entries repos — 95 entries tools — 152 entries papers — 35 entries ecosystem — 50 entries One click. No search bar. No query syntax to learn. The filters at https://ai-tldr.dev/?cat=tool give you exactly the context you actually wanted when you opened the site.…

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