{"id":73788,"title":"⭐️ 🔍 Andi - Making search fun, factual and interesting ","tagline":"Andi uses generative AI and beautiful content to make search more interesting, engaging and useful","body":"TL;DR: Andi is **search for the next generation** using generative AI - visual, conversational and factually accurate. Instead of just links, [**Andi**](https://andisearch.com/) gives you **answers** in a fun and friendly way - like chatting with a smart friend.\n\nHey YC fam, we’re Angela and Jed and we’re building [Andi](https://andisearch.com/)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=73788\u0026key=user_uploads/673843/6e575206-0716-407f-ba62-8228d473165c)\n\n### **✖️** The Problem\n\nWe all know search is broken, but it also has massive potential. Today, it’s full of ads, misinformation and SEO spam. With AI-powered search and chatbots the problem will get even worse, because LLMs make things up and bury the sources, and a new era of sponsored answers threatens to destroy trust online.\n\nWhat makes the web great is the high quality content that many producers spend hours researching, writing and creating. Google sells ads on their content without giving fair attribution or promotion. Now LLM-based chatbots give even less credit, or make sources up. Users have to spend more time fact-checking than searching.\n\n### **✅** Our Solution\n\nWith Andi, we want to make search 100x better. We’re building **practical** and **helpful** AI that is largely invisible to the user. We set a high bar on answer speed and accuracy and only show generated answers that have very high confidence. We focus on getting the building blocks like factual summaries and explanations right. We highlight and present rich information direct from sites rather than little snippets.\n\nWe make searching the web fun, interesting, and easy to understand. Our goal is to save you 15 - 20 mins by providing direct answers to questions, but only when they are _right_. Andi is **ad free**, **private** and **anonymous**, so you can feel safe online.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=73788\u0026key=user_uploads/673843/ceba85a8-d52d-4461-a816-708dff488213)\n\n### **🙌** What’s New\n\n📷 **Stunning visual results**: Search is more interesting, fun and useful with visual results that highlight the beauty and richness of content online, and enhance search with the meaningful information they contain.\n\n🤓 **Change your view**: Change how you see results based on what you need or your mood - with an entertaining **Feed**, an info-packed **Grid**, or simple **List** views. Results take full-advantage of large screens.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=73788\u0026key=user_uploads/673843/f1fc2871-7d14-462a-a149-c36a90f56a23)\n\n⚡ **Summarization**: Andi uses AI to select the best and most useful content from websites to display on results cards, generating short meaningful summaries for each. A **Summarize** button on every result gives you a short 200 word summary of the full content.\n\n🤯 **Explanations**: Understand complex topics with an **Explain** button on each result card that explains the content like you're in school.\n\n🪄 **Generate**: Get factually grounded and accurate tutorials, overviews, reports or other written content using the **Generate Text** button.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=73788\u0026key=user_uploads/673843/1e476f6b-177c-427b-ba23-c41c8828ecd0)\n\n### 🙏🏼 Asks\n\nTry it now at [andisearch.com](https://andisearch.com).\n\nIf you like it, please share it with your friends! 🙏🏼\n\nIf you want to use it on mobile, download the Progressive Web App! Instructions [here](https://aureatelabs.com/blog/install-pwa-to-device/).\n\nPlease join our community on [Discord](https://discord.gg/andi) 💙","slug":"JC8-andi-making-search-fun-factual-and-interesting","created_at":"2023-08-03T21:27:17.152Z","updated_at":"2026-05-24T21:17:22.292Z","total_vote_count":366,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JC8-andi-making-search-fun-factual-and-interesting","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":25058,"name":"Andi","slug":"andi","url":"https://AndiAI.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8c2b55aa5e7689ba35628ff2ed6299db9328d83c.png","batch":"Winter 2022","industry":"Consumer","tags":["Generative AI","Consumer","API","Search","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/25058"}}