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5 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score +0.00.
Idea: 2 for, 4 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good to see an open-source option after Sourcegraph went closed source.
From 3 comments
Awesome to see another open source player in the space, especially after Sourcegraph went closed source. It looks like you're working on this full-time (and it's a lot of work to…
morgante on HNThis is really exciting. Happy to see someone building an open source solution in this space
ashobeiri on HNWhat a milestone. SourceGraph is big enough to have its own open source clone
ergocoder on HN
Clean, well-done project.
From 1 comment
This is well done thanks for the share.
mattfat5 on HN
Objections
Mostly a UI wrapper over Zoekt with little server-side code.
From 1 comment
Hi! sorry for not responding to your email, I was swamped. I looked through the sourcecode, but I can only find UI (ie. browser) code. Does this do anything beyond delivering a…
hanwenn on HN
Unclear whether it will stay open source or become a business.
From 2 comments
Re-asking [0] as a top-level question, since it has gone unanswered: do you intend to make a business out of this project in some way, or is it a "real" open source project? I…
peterldowns on HNDo you plan on eventually attempting to monetize in some way, or is this open source as in free software as in you legitimately are just creating a new open source project? I…
peterldowns on HN
Requests
Support for more code hosts such as Gitea, Forgejo, Bitbucket and Perforce.
From 4 comments
Great work! Any plans to add Gitea/Forgejo (self-hosted) support?
planb on HNAny plans for non Github/Gitlab integrations? Gitea/Gogs/etc. maybe?
TavsiE9s on HNWhat sort of effort is required for additional host types? I see an issue is opened for self-hosted Bitbucket which would be a blocker for me to try it.
acloudbutwhy on HNDoes it support Perforce? i couldn't find it in the schema in the repo.
cprogrammer on HN
Support for indexing specific branches only.
From 1 comment
How would this work if you want to index different branches of a repository only? For example I’d like to index branches release1, release2, etc. but not have it index developer…
metaroxx on HN
Questions
Does it clone repos on ingest and support in-place repos?
From 1 comment
Does this make a copy of each repo on ingest? Can it work against in-place repos, for example if hosted on the same server as a code forge installation?
zdw on HN
Will it be monetized or stay open source?
From 2 comments
Re-asking [0] as a top-level question, since it has gone unanswered: do you intend to make a business out of this project in some way, or is it a "real" open source project? I…
peterldowns on HNAwesome to see another open source player in the space, especially after Sourcegraph went closed source. It looks like you're working on this full-time (and it's a lot of work to…
morgante on HN
Alternatives named
Sourcegraph
From 2 comments
Re-asking [0] as a top-level question, since it has gone unanswered: do you intend to make a business out of this project in some way, or is it a "real" open source project? I…
peterldowns on HNsourcegraph is dead with advent of LLMs and AI coding tools right? Github cross repo search is also not bad anymore
asdev on HN
Zoekt web UI
From 1 comment
Zoekt already has its own UI, though it is very feature-limited and lacks syntax highlighting. Demo: https://cs.bazel.build/ If you’re curious about the source, as I was, here it…
maxloh on HN
Hound
From 1 comment
Another solid code search tool https://github.com/hound-search/hound. Based on regexp
awenix on HN
grep.app
From 1 comment
Nice! Still not quite as good as grep.app from an interface point of view. They have instant search-as-you-type results over all of GitHub. It's not open source but I use it all…
IshKebab on HN
ghorg with ripgrep
From 1 comment
I use ghorg in tandem with ripgrep to address that problem. The former is for checking out the main branches of all repositories, the latter to perform the actual search.
Hackbraten on HN