🤗 ask people!

Ask People helps you search over 50 million topics, based on sources like Wikidata — the largest public knowledge base.

For advice, how-to guides, and recommendations, it finds answers on forums like Reddit and Stack Overflow, from real people.

You can also ask questions to Thaura and get instant answers (Thaura is a ChatGPT alternative that uses 93% less energy.)

You can also save good answers — making it easy for people to find helpful results, and expanding the database of answers.

It's also open-source and can be self-hosted. What if search could be community-run?

Benefits:

✅ No need for new data centers. Each topic answer uses 0.3% of the energy compared to A.I. tools, and each saved answer uses 0.03% of the energy.

Energy Comparisons

• ChatGPT
  100%
• Google Search
  10%
• 🤗 ask people!
  Topic Answer
  0.3%
• 🤗 ask people!
  Saved Answer
  0.03%

As more people ask questions on Ask People, the database of saved answers grows, meaning more answers and knowledge provided with far less compute (even than Google searches).

✅ Search and answers can be hosted by people, instead of corporations.

✅ You can have search offline, without an Internet connection.

✅ No tracking or surveillance

✅ Bring people into conversation on discussion forums like Stack Overflow and Reddit