If there's a lot of interest, we'd be happy to offer a monthly paid plan also. It's interesting. Only on HN do we hear users asking to pay for an otherwise free service. Majority of our users everywhere else would never pay for search.
youChat will get a lot better in the coming months
I think gradient on results page are distracting. You guys should do some UI review of results page. For me it's too distracting and hard to read the results.
Same with the logos at bottom they steal all attention.
EDIT: Kagi beats you hard on this
EDIT2: More criticism. I feel like I am reading 10 lines at once of your menu instead of results. Move it to right/top, add padding, border or something like this. Also font is like from those cheap websites that spam.
Maybe consider making an "ad-supported, free" model, and a "premium" plan without ads? As long as advertising doesn't end up in the premium plan at any point it's the best of both worlds.
youChat will get a lot better in the coming months
I think it would be wonderful!
Richard from you.com here.