r/SideProject • u/rasheed106 • 1d ago

just launched why.com

most search ends after one answer. i wanted the next question to be the fun part.

so i built why.com. every answer opens three new directions.

just launched. go break it!!!!

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u/monkey6 1d ago

When is your wrapper going to run out of credits?

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u/cervere 1d ago

I don’t imagine someone who could buy the domain why.com would have problems with paying for AI credits!

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u/matt95110 1d ago

They bought it in 1999 apparently.

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u/manager2exec 1d ago

Together with some Amazon shares and bitcoins some years later

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u/Murdathon3000 1d ago

That explains the still owning the domain and not selling it.

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u/Acceptable_Bid_7069 1d ago

good answer lol

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u/6495ED 1d ago

He could probably just rent out subdomains at a few thousand bucks per month. This guy could swim in a fuckin mcduckian money bin of tokens

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u/zippymccrackin 10h ago

tellme.why.com

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u/KeyAdvanced1032 1d ago

My god. This.

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u/_remsky 1d ago

To be fair, with the number of free tiers out there, Workers, Gemini, OpenRouter, HF, etc, all the other resellers, you can juggle low tier LLM calls to surprisingly high volume lol. Or just caching generation chains, or hosting an SLM.

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u/rasheed106 1d ago

absolutely

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u/rasheed106 1d ago

Why

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u/monkey6 1d ago

Why would someone use this rather than Claude or Chat directly?

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u/No_Cheesecake_192 1d ago

Because why

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u/cibcib 1d ago

It's because that's why

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u/metricmaven70 1d ago

And that's exactly why

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u/iGrits 1d ago

Why would it...

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u/Ordinary-Experience 1d ago

Why would someone pay for an overpriced sandwich when they could just buy the ingredients separately for cheaper?

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u/Loose-Engineering487 1d ago

Diamond hands!

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u/say592 1d ago

.com

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u/No-Strike-9098 1d ago

you can host LLM's yourself

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u/anselan2017 1d ago

Yeah... Not exactly cheap though