<story><title>We will be shutting down neeva.com</title><url>https://neeva.com/blog/may-announcement</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kovac</author><text>Hello, I looked at Kagi and found it too expensive. I&amp;#x27;m a paying user for many software I use: vpn, email, git to list a few. And i am willing to pay a reasonable price for a search service. To put it in to perspective, my vpn costs less than $9 a month and I use it for high speed multimedia streaming, video games with no limits on usage. I hope you can come up with more reasonable pricing plans or consider open-sourcing the software. In which case I&amp;#x27;ll support it as a matter of principle.</text></item><item><author>freediver</author><text>There is an all out war for search supremacy right now between two trillion dollar companies, with one having everything to win and the other everything to lose. In those circumstances a standard VC model of buying growth does not work even if you have a huge war chest, as you will be outspent no matter how big your investors are.&lt;p&gt;As a founder of a startup in the same space (Kagi) we feel these challenges. We face difficult decisions every day. It is hard but I am cautiously optimistic about our approach. All I know is that when the dust settles in two years, we still plan to be around.&lt;p&gt;Big props to the Neeva team for educating the market about the existence of ad-free search and paving the way for bootstrapped companies like ours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freediver</author><text>We are trying to find a way to return to $10&amp;#x2F;mo unlimited searches. It is not for the lack of trying that we are not there already and we are trying to ensure Kagi&amp;#x27;s long term sustainability. Very grateful to all our customers supporting us in this period.</text></comment>
<story><title>We will be shutting down neeva.com</title><url>https://neeva.com/blog/may-announcement</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kovac</author><text>Hello, I looked at Kagi and found it too expensive. I&amp;#x27;m a paying user for many software I use: vpn, email, git to list a few. And i am willing to pay a reasonable price for a search service. To put it in to perspective, my vpn costs less than $9 a month and I use it for high speed multimedia streaming, video games with no limits on usage. I hope you can come up with more reasonable pricing plans or consider open-sourcing the software. In which case I&amp;#x27;ll support it as a matter of principle.</text></item><item><author>freediver</author><text>There is an all out war for search supremacy right now between two trillion dollar companies, with one having everything to win and the other everything to lose. In those circumstances a standard VC model of buying growth does not work even if you have a huge war chest, as you will be outspent no matter how big your investors are.&lt;p&gt;As a founder of a startup in the same space (Kagi) we feel these challenges. We face difficult decisions every day. It is hard but I am cautiously optimistic about our approach. All I know is that when the dust settles in two years, we still plan to be around.&lt;p&gt;Big props to the Neeva team for educating the market about the existence of ad-free search and paving the way for bootstrapped companies like ours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Daunk</author><text>This is a bit off-topic, but sadly, I have to agree. I AM a paying Kagi user, but the new limits have hit me extremely hard. I&amp;#x27;m now paying twice as much per month and still almost hitting my monthly limit. I really don&amp;#x27;t want Kagi to go away but I think they have to adjust their prices if they want to keep thier customers around, me included</text></comment>