What if we could get answers to our searches ... directly?

You have something you want to know.

Today, you enter a search. Google gives you 10 pages of results, and A.I. prompts use 10x more energy than that.

But what if we could get the answer to our searches ... directly?

Facts across millions of topics. Local weather forecasts. Directions to an event. Even those great tips and how-to's and advice that you scavenge Reddit and forums for.

What if we could get answers like those in an instant, without our searches being tracked or stored in an advertising profile, and without burning energy for auto-generated results?

Introducing 🤗 Ask People.

The most efficient, time-saving, and privacy-respecting way of getting information online - by and for people.

🤗 Ask People gives you direct answers to your questions, before those searches even hit Google servers or ChatGPT/Claude.

It's compatible with your existing search flows – if it doesn't find an answer, it continues your search as usual.

But when it does find an answer, it gives it to you directly, providing:

• Facts on 300+ million topics from Wikidata
• Weather, directions, math calculations and even scores, without tracking your search or making you jump pages
• Insightful comments from Reddit and other forums. When someone finds a good answer while searching on the Internet, they can save that as an answer in a click. When others ask that question in the future, they'll see the answer saved.
• It's even open-source and self-hostable – meaning you're not depending on one company like Google to provide you search results. You can run it yourself.

Because it's open-source and federated (coming soon), different instances can share saved answers – so when you search "best way to boil linguini?", you can get answers from multiple communities, instead of a single point of control.

For that reason, we're funding this project with people – not VCs.

If you want to support this as a way we search on the Internet, consider becoming a member/sponsor – supporting ongoing development, and signaling to funders that this is an important project worth funding further.

Ready for a new kind of search – by and for us?

🤗 Enter!