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Growth · August 26, 2022

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EVRTHN.com, a Search Engine for the “Metaverse”

Hey HN! As a geriatric Millennial, I used to spend an ungodly amount of time hanging around IRC and discovering sites on the old web. During the Pandemic, I got into hanging around standup comedy hangouts in VRChat. Taking friends to visit a virtual Mcdonald's[1] or joining a Karaoke party in a Minecraft world[2] brought back that sense of rapport and presence (multiplied by 1000) from my IRC days. Problem is, finding any of this content is extremely difficult. Most of it is locked inside native apps and isn't semantically relevant to Google (I could never imagine there are tons of people…

EVRTHN.com, a Search Engine for the “Metaverse” launched on August 26, 2022 with 17 votes, #879 of 3,307 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

In plain words

EVRTHN.com is a search engine designed to help users discover content within virtual worlds and metaverse platforms. It indexes news, events, virtual worlds, and assets from multiple apps and websites including VRChat and Minecraft, making this content searchable in one place. The tool is built for people exploring virtual social spaces, from comedy hangouts to yoga classes, who struggle to find these experiences scattered across native applications that traditional search engines don't index.

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In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN! As a geriatric Millennial, I used to spend an ungodly amount of time hanging around IRC and discovering sites on the old web. During the Pandemic, I got into hanging around standup comedy hangouts in VRChat. Taking friends to visit a virtual Mcdonald's[1] or joining a Karaoke party in a Minecraft world[2]…

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