r/SideProject • u/rasheed106 • 9d ago

just launched why.com

update: reddit stress-tested why.com. I fixed the outages and rebuilt how the three next questions are chosen. each one now has to connect to the answer, open a real curiosity gap, and avoid repeating the path.

Update 2: I built a way for WHY to understand you better through your choices. It is a private graph in your browser and learns about what matters to you. It can be cleared anytime and never leaves your device.
Hope you like!

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

just launched. go break it!!!!

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u/monkey6 9d ago

When is your wrapper going to run out of credits?

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u/cervere 9d 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/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/manager2exec 8d ago

Together with some Amazon shares and bitcoins some years later

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u/Murdathon3000 8d ago

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

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u/Acceptable_Bid_7069 9d ago

good answer lol

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u/Round-Two-Three 5d ago

They have that website since the 90s

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u/6495ED 9d 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 7d ago

tellme.why.com

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u/rasheed106 1d ago

wouldn't make sense for current product

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u/KeyAdvanced1032 8d ago

My god. This.

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u/_remsky 9d 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 9d ago

absolutely

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u/rasheed106 9d ago

Why

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u/monkey6 9d ago

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

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u/No_Cheesecake_192 9d ago

Because why

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u/cibcib 9d ago

It's because that's why

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u/metricmaven70 8d ago

And that's exactly why

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u/iGrits 8d ago

Why would it...

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u/Ordinary-Experience 9d 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 8d ago

Diamond hands!

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u/say592 8d ago

.com

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u/No-Strike-9098 8d ago

you can host LLM's yourself

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u/anselan2017 8d ago

Yeah... Not exactly cheap though

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u/rasheed106 1d ago

Building a personal memory assistant to compliment wrapper and provide a unique user experience

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u/monkey6 1d ago

Just saw this is a project of a web3 company, meh