Definr: Incredibly fast dictionary

Guys, I wrote a similar tool few months ago: <a href="http://www.instantwordsearch.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.instantwordsearch.com</a><p>It does more than definr (e.g. pattern search). But it was met with indifference (except on StumbleUpon). Can you tell me where I screwed up?<p>May be I shouldn't have mentioned that I wrote it as a toy app? (but it IS a toy app) Picture needed? Looks ugly/too simple? Name too long? All I am able to come up with are some conspiracy theories: 'Definr creator lists Kevin Rose as <i>friend</i> in his Digg profile'; 'Ruby-On-Rails was mentioned' etc. But the real issue must be something else.<p>I think the fault is invisible to me as I created the tool. Hopefully I can learn a marketing lesson or two from this... Please help.

I'm not sure it's incredibly fast, sure it uses auto-complete and ajax to load things instead of a page refresh, but it seems a similar speed to conventional web based dictionaries to me.

This cries out to be implemented with Berkeley DB, which is simply much faster than relational databases.

Nothing will ever be faster than hovering over a word and pressing control-command-D on Mac OS X.<p>

Sweet. However, the one word I happened to pick for a test (don't know why) was "spork" -- doh.<p>At least it wasn't a presentation at YC: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77269" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77269</a>

How is this a startup? Auto-complete is NOT hard: it's a trie.

I've been using this one. Easier to type definr though.<p><a href="http://www.ninjawords.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ninjawords.com/</a>

Making a round trip with each letter typed? Impressive. Who needs a desktop app?

I tried "triumphalism" on the first try. Not yet there :)