We launched to the public in November 2021 on Product Hunt, were voted the #2 product of the day and became finalists for the Golden Kitty Award in the privacy category. The celebration continued after CB Insights tagged us as one of the top AI startups in the world. In a sweet moment at the end of the year, TIME named us their Best Invention of 2022 in the apps and software category.
We introduced apps to search, with over 280 custom applications built right on top of You.com. Each app adds functionality to the core search engine so that you can find summarized information or complete a task. Some are well known, like a weather forecast app. Others summarize forums allowing you to skim the most relevant content and find fast answers. We were the first to incorporate apps like Reddit and TikTok into search.
In December, we introduced YOU Platform, opening our platform to the world. This allows companies to build low-code apps to meet users on the exact intent of their search, instead of paying Google millions of dollars in ads just to appear on the search page.
To help our users accomplish more, we built AI-powered search apps that provide functionality never before seen inside traditional search engines and established ourselves as a disruptor of both search and science. You can write, code, and create art with YouWrite, YouCode, and YouImagine.
In the wake of ChatGPT, we became the first in the world to upgrade a large language model for relevance and accuracy and incorporate it into search.
YouChat, our ChatGPT-like AI search assistant accesses the internet and knows about recent events. It also cites its sources so that you can feel confident in its answers.
As sites like TikTok became to go-to search engines for younger users, we combed the web and summarized Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit to introduce the Social tab, allowing users to search across 9+ social media sites at once.