When I read your description, I thought, "This is just like the Exa dataset, no?" but then I gave it a try, and I am genuinely impressed.
Great decision to make it without a login so people can test.
Here is what I liked:
- The agent told me exactly what's happening, which sources it is checking, and the schema.
- The agent correctly identified where to look at, and how to obtain the data.
- Managing expectations: Webhound is extracting data Extraction can take multiple hours. We'll send you an email when it's complete.
Minor point:
- There is no pricing on the main domain, just the HN one https://hn.webhound.ai/pricing
Good luck!
Thanks, glad to hear you had a good experience.
We were heavily inspired by tools like Cursor - basically tried to prioritize user control and visibility above everything else.
What we discovered during iteration was that our users are usually domain experts who know exactly what they want. The more we showed them what was happening under the hood and gave them control over the process, the better their results got.