A decade-old coder search engine idea he never shipped — and what Fenng's team built instead
gefei55 · x · 2026-10-26
Blogger gefei reflects on giving up a programmer-focused search engine idea (answers directly on the results page) to Fenng ten years ago, then never shipping it due to perfectionism — domain, ICP filing and trademark all done, product never launched. Fenng's team went on to build Readhub (still alive and profitable) and the Luckyclick mini-program with hundreds of millions of users, before focusing on medical data products.
The lesson: ship first, polish later — the obsession with a perfect launch usually means never launching.
More from Companies & People
- AI founder Aiden Bai opens up about depression, starting Lexapro — aidenybai · 2026-10-26
- Call for universities to drop paper-chasing and build joint AI safety + cybersecurity curricula — himanshustwts · 2026-10-26
- "I'm Dario pilled": Anthropic points nearly all compute at models making models — iruletheworldmo · 2026-10-26
- Base44 fine-tuned Qwen 2B in half a day for prompt autocomplete serving millions — tristanbob · 2026-10-26
- Ex-frontier-lab contractor launches free AI engineering curriculum: 208 handbooks, 130 interactive builds — iamsausi · 2026-10-26
- AI lab's first interview question: conclude from an early loss curve and you're out — _aidan_clark_ · 2026-10-26