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How HN took it
7 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 1 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score +0.32.
Execution: 2 for, 0 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Quick and easy setup
From 2 comments
I got this set up and working in basically 5 minutes. Going to try to set it up at work. Super cool! It seems like the open source version already has a bunch of features, how do…
hahaxdxd123 on HNLove this idea, docs are good I just need to read them better :) Trying it out now. Keep it fully open source and nicely pluggable and I'll keep being a fan!
cobbzilla on HN
Free and open source
From 2 comments
Love that it’s free to use
cuzinluver on HNLove this idea, docs are good I just need to read them better :) Trying it out now. Keep it fully open source and nicely pluggable and I'll keep being a fan!
cobbzilla on HN
Useful web UI with IDE-like features
From 1 comment
Yea it's a similar idea - DeepWiki has the generated "wiki" part which we think is really cool (and maybe we'll add something similar in the future). The core chat experience is…
bshzzle on HN
Objections
SSO being a paid enterprise feature
From 1 comment
SSO is not an enterprise feature :( https://sso.tax I'm using OIDC SSO (via Pocket ID) just for my own sanity. I don't want or need multiple sets of credentials for my home lab…
cweagans on HN
No local model support in early docs
From 1 comment
This looks pretty neat. Just spotted in the docs that it has an MCP server too, however, I haven't found anything in the docs about using a locally hosted model. Running this on…
drcongo on HN
Fair source license questions
From 1 comment
So can I use Functional Source licensed code in internal products if I’m a commercial org?
prepend on HN
Requests
Support for locally hosted models such as Ollama
From 1 comment
This looks pretty neat. Just spotted in the docs that it has an MCP server too, however, I haven't found anything in the docs about using a locally hosted model. Running this on…
drcongo on HN
Vector embedding code search
From 1 comment
I was very excited for a strong off-the-shelf code vector embedding search tool. I wanted to encourage you to explore that direction, since it's a) very powerful, b) annoying to…
bravura on HN
MCP server support for Ask Sourcebot
From 1 comment
In reading the docs, it doesn't look like the MCP server supports the Ask Sourcebot capability. Is that correct or am I missing something in the docs? Is that planned to be added?
dchuk on HN
Questions
How does it compare to RAG or graph-RAG approaches
From 1 comment
How does this compare to ingesting all your code into some RAG tool and using that in a chat? I understand the citations part, which is a cool feature indeed, but especially…
nkmnz on HN
How does it compare to DeepWiki
From 1 comment
Just recently discovered Devins DeepWikis and love them. Same idea, talk to your repo, right? What does Sourcebot doe differently / better? https://deepwiki.org/
perelin on HN
Why Zoekt was chosen for code search
From 1 comment
I see you use the Zoekt project for code search. Why did you choose this over alternatives and how has been your experience so far?
witnessme on HN
Alternatives named
DeepWiki
From 1 comment
Just recently discovered Devins DeepWikis and love them. Same idea, talk to your repo, right? What does Sourcebot doe differently / better? https://deepwiki.org/
perelin on HN
Graphiti graph-RAG
From 1 comment
How does this compare to ingesting all your code into some RAG tool and using that in a chat? I understand the citations part, which is a cool feature indeed, but especially…
nkmnz on HN
Cursor and Claude Code
From 1 comment