When I started tracking AI releases for my own use, the first feature request from the first person who found the site was: "can you add search?"

The obvious answer was yes. Full-text search on 332+ AI releases feels like a must-have. Every content site has it. I even opened an Algolia account.

Then I stopped and thought about what people actually do when they land on the feed.

They don't arrive with a specific release in mind. They arrive wanting to know: "what dropped this week in the models space?" or "any interesting open-source repos lately?" or "what tools are getting traction?"

That's a browsing pattern, not a searching pattern.

The decision

Instead of full-text search, I added 5 category filters:

models — 65 entries

repos — 95 entries

tools — 152 entries

papers — 35 entries

ecosystem — 50 entries

One click. No search bar.…