25 cents a search seems a bit high for the most basic searches.
Realize this could be so that you don't have to sell ad-space and to make money right away (and fast).
Test query [ d3.behavior.zoom] results:
nerdydata => 11 code results
stack overflow => 126 results
github => 4,824 code results
bing => 283,000 results
google => 593,000 results
edit: I am really excited about this as finding websites with live code examples in JS would be extremely useful. Better to see live code than someone's (perhaps old?) blog post about how they did it.
We're proud to announce the launch of our one-of-a-kind source code search engine.
Our team is 2 recent graduates who are trying to undertake the herculean challenge of building a search engine.
Traditional search engines only index the text of webpages. We go deeper, and get all the HTML, CSS, Javascript, and more.
All feedback is welcome, we're new and trying to improve.
That said it looks good and the demo seems to work now, good job!
Just out of curiosity what's the UA of your crawler? Curious to see if it's hit any of my sites.
https://search.nerdydata.com/SEO https://search.nerdydata.com/backlinks https://search.nerdydata.com/images
It's been almost an hour and you only have my 1 upvote, so to be honest your submission really doesn't look like it's going anywhere.
I'd resubmit tomorrow at around 7:30 to 8:30am EST, and I'd do it as a "Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers", but don't put put your url in the "url" field - put it in the "text" box, along with your "Hey HackerNews!..." copy. Posts submitted that way will be much more likely to get upvotes, and you'll linger in the "Ask" section (see the link at the top nav. bar) for about a week or so.
Update: I was recommending that you kill this submission, but scratch that. You're on the home page now, so maybe it'll take off. If not, just resubmit next week the way I mention above.