Scira grew fast, but it wasn't built to scale affordably. Running large models like Anthropic was burning over $1,000/month. Every search chipped away at Zaid's savings.
He nearly pulled the plug. Then @GroqInc stepped in with compute that could finally keep up.
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Scira and Groq: How Accessible AI Saves Startups
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Scira: From 500 to 16,000 Daily Users in December
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In December, Scira's daily traffic jumped from 500 to 16,000 overnight. His GitHub repo surged from 1K to 6K stars in just a few weeks. People weren't just curious. They were using it.
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Zaid’s Journey Building a Better AI-Powered Web Search Tool
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2/ Like many great dev stories, it started with frustration. Zaid wanted a better way to search across the web using AI. Something fast, clean, and customizable. Perplexity was powerful, but felt closed and out of reach. So he started building.
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MiniPerplx: Open-Source Search with Research Groups Feature
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He called it “MiniPerplx” at first: a lightweight, open-source alternative. No login. No paywall. No noise.
Then he added Research Groups which allowed search across YouTube, Reddit, and X, all at once, grouped by source. It actually worked. That’s when it took off. pic.twitter.com/Jitwo8ad9F3/ He called it “MiniPerplx” at first: a lightweight, open-source alternative. No login. No paywall. No noise. Then he added Research Groups which allowed search across YouTube, Reddit, and X, all at once, grouped by source. It actually worked. That’s when it took off.
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Solo founder builds open-source Perplexity competitor without funding
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This solo founder built an open-source competitor to Perplexity with no team, no funding, and no permission. What started as a weekend project now powers over 1M searches, with 60K+ monthly users. This is the story of @sciraai and how Zaid Mukaddam built what others wouldn’t.
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Groq at Raise Summit: Inference No Longer a Bottleneck
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Proud to be attending @RaiseSummit to share what becomes possible when inference is no longer the bottleneck.
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Groq BBQ Benchmark: Salty, Scalable, Low-Latency Performance
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Automation with AI agents: What tasks are you automating?
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How much are you automating with agents these days? Which tasks? Drop answers in the comments below.
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Favorite Open-Source LLM Community Poll
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What’s your favorite open-source LLM these days? Drop your answer in the comments.
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Qwen3 32B: Revolutionary 3x Larger Context Window
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Qwen3 32B. Over 3x the context window of everyone else. It’s not even close.