Phind, Inc.
Phind is an AI-powered search and answer engine specifically designed for developers, providing instant, actionable code solutions and explanations.
At a Glance
- Software Engineers
- Data Scientists
- Technical Teams
AI Tools by Phind, Inc.
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Phind
AI Search for Programming Questions
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Latest News
AI answer engine Phind raises $10.4M
Phind shuts down just weeks after raising Series A
Phind-70B: Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models
Phind launches on Product Hunt
Products & Services
An AI-powered answer engine that provides direct code solutions and explanations for developer queries by browsing the web.
A premium subscription service offering unlimited high-quality queries, access to advanced models (GPT-4, Claude), and larger context windows.
An IDE integration allowing developers to use Phind directly within their code editor with codebase context.
Market Position
Positioned as a faster, more accurate alternative to general-purpose search engines and generic AI assistants for programming-specific queries.
Leadership
Founders
Michael Royzen
Co-founder & CEO. Previously founded SmartLens (AI search app) and Ryde (ride-sharing app). Named 'Geek of the Week' by GeekWire at age 16. Attended The Bush School in Seattle and was a Turing Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin.
Justin Wei
Co-founder. Studied Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Worked on the core algorithm and infrastructure of Phind.
Executive Team
Michael Royzen
CEO & Co-founder
Lead visionary and technical founder with a history in AI app development.
Justin Wei
Co-founder
Technical co-founder focused on algorithm design and system architecture.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Phind was started to address the inefficiency of developers searching through multiple documentation pages and Stack Overflow threads. The founders aimed to build a 'search engine that answers' using large language models tailored for technical accuracy.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription-based (SaaS) for premium features; potential API licensing (though primarily focused on the consumer-facing tool).
Pricing Tiers
Limited daily uses of high-quality models; basic AI search functionality.
Unlimited high-quality queries, 32k token context window, early access to new models like GPT-4 and Phind-70B, and image analysis.
Target Markets
- Software Engineers
- Data Scientists
- Technical Teams
- Debugging code
- Generating boilerplates
- Learning new programming languages
- Searching API documentation
- Millions of individual developers used the platform monthly before its shutdown.