DontBeEvil.rip
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developer search engine
SHOW HN2022
269points
121comments
#167of 2,570 in 2022
Top 7%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
12 positive, 36 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 11 critical, out of 62 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Execution: 3 for, 5 againstIdea: 4 for, 1 againstDesign: 3 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Idea of curated, whitelist-style developer search is appealing
From 2 comments
Best of luck to you, I think there is a targettable niche that could utilize this. Having thought quite a bit about the search space, I think a whitelist approach is going to be…
arminiusreturns on HNI really like it and it already gives some useful results. A rise of curated search engines as yours would be lovely. It would be nice if the main page linked to your blog or…
przemub on HN
CLI and plain-text access are useful
From 2 comments
Can we drop the q= and the quotes from the shell cmd somehow, that would make it so much nicer, and rip is a great command line.
ykevinator2 on HNThis is an interesting approach to the general problem. The general problem being that whatever data source you use is inevitably going to be polluted by players who wish to be…
Traster on HN
Objections
Results are noisy and off-topic for many queries
From 3 comments
I love this idea. This is mostly just raw data, it isn't that useful (yet). The security issues with using curl directly to my terminal feel a bit dangerous. I'd rather use my…
sitkack on HNI've tried it out. It's quite obvious the limited number of crawled sites when searching for anything obscure or one step outside of programming. Even 'javascript reverse…
operator-name on HNI just tried a few queries related to rust and it's library rocket. I got only useless results on the first page and didn't check further. I'm guessing that's because it doesn't…
AnyTimeTraveler on HN
Missing key docs sources such as MDN, docs.rs and language docs
From 2 comments
I've tried it out. It's quite obvious the limited number of crawled sites when searching for anything obscure or one step outside of programming. Even 'javascript reverse…
operator-name on HNI just tried a few queries related to rust and it's library rocket. I got only useless results on the first page and didn't check further. I'm guessing that's because it doesn't…
AnyTimeTraveler on HN
Internal server errors on ordinary queries
From 2 comments
Getting internal server error for many ordinary requests. I'm not able to discern a pattern. An example is `rip 'q=zelda'`.
feanaro on HNI'm getting: > {"message": "Internal server error"}
dorianmariefr on HN
Raw Elasticsearch access and curl usage raise security concerns
From 2 comments
I love this idea. This is mostly just raw data, it isn't that useful (yet). The security issues with using curl directly to my terminal feel a bit dangerous. I'd rather use my…
sitkack on HNWhat security implications does running curl have that wouldn't be present in a browser?
tekromancr on HN
Requests
Add language and library documentation
From 3 comments
I've tried it out. It's quite obvious the limited number of crawled sites when searching for anything obscure or one step outside of programming. Even 'javascript reverse…
operator-name on HNI just tried a few queries related to rust and it's library rocket. I got only useless results on the first page and didn't check further. I'm guessing that's because it doesn't…
AnyTimeTraveler on HNI love this idea. This is mostly just raw data, it isn't that useful (yet). The security issues with using curl directly to my terminal feel a bit dangerous. I'd rather use my…
sitkack on HN
Add a web front-end or homepage
From 3 comments
Why not make a website for this? Why just limit it to the terminal (hard to use on mobile for example)? Edit: obviously you can query it from a browser, but it would take like a…
martinald on HN> programmer Reddit Is it just /r/programmer? or many other programming related subreddits? In general though, this is great. I would similarly love a solution where we could…
erklik on HNGoing to "https://dontbeevil.rip/" results in a JSON error in the browser: {"message":"Missing Authentication Token"}
husainfazel on HN
Allow users to submit sites to index
From 1 comment
> programmer Reddit Is it just /r/programmer? or many other programming related subreddits? In general though, this is great. I would similarly love a solution where we could…
erklik on HN
Index Stack Exchange sites and GitHub
From 2 comments
> StackOverflow Does this include the entire StackExchange network, or only StackOverflow? Because some SE sites (in particular, UnixSE and ServerFault) also produce highly…
mynameismon on HNAre you not putting github (+issues and PRs) in the indexed set?
pcthrowaway on HN
Drop q= and quotes from the CLI
From 1 comment
Can we drop the q= and the quotes from the shell cmd somehow, that would make it so much nicer, and rip is a great command line.
ykevinator2 on HN
Questions
Is the project open source?
From 1 comment
This looks really cool! It would be neat to have a proper CLI with a more fully-flushed out UI, with things like shortcuts to quickly open links. Is there any way I can be kept…
niek_pas on HN
Is it only /r/programmer or other subreddits?
From 1 comment
> programmer Reddit Is it just /r/programmer? or many other programming related subreddits? In general though, this is great. I would similarly love a solution where we could…
erklik on HN
Are advanced query strings supported?
From 1 comment
Nice! Do any more advanced query strings work right now? Like looking for recent pages or only searching titles?
l0b0 on HN
Alternatives named
devdocs.io
From 1 comment
I love this idea. This is mostly just raw data, it isn't that useful (yet). The security issues with using curl directly to my terminal feel a bit dangerous. I'd rather use my…
sitkack on HN
Google with site filters
From 1 comment
I just tried a few queries related to rust and it's library rocket. I got only useless results on the first page and didn't check further. I'm guessing that's because it doesn't…
AnyTimeTraveler on HN