Feep! search
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SHOW HN2022
182points
72comments
#322of 2,570 in 2022
Top 13%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
7 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 8 critical, out of 38 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Execution: 1 for, 5 againstIdea: 4 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Good to see more independent indexes like Marginalia
From 1 comment
Love to see more independent indexes! Sometimes there seems like there's plenty of search engines, but when grouped by the indexes they rely on there's actually very few major…
culi on HN
Objections
Search result quality is poor for many queries
From 4 comments
Great idea, but search is pretty bad right now. Searching for "django signals" got unofficial search results on the first page and all the links on the second page (1) are…
IceWreck on HNThis is a cool idea! I would love to use this. I don't know how it works or if I'm using it right, but I tried this example: "swift ios upload picture multipart/form-data".…
Dig1t on HNFrankly it doesn't look like it's ready to be useful. As an example tried "Braze notifications" and the first result was about Brave, then two mildly relevant, and then a long…
brokenkebab2 on HNI would be very happy if such service worked (or if I could run it myself). It's my long term goal to break out of dependency on the Borg. But the results are not even promising,…
crosser on HN
Official documentation is hard to surface in results
From 2 comments
Is there a particular reason this site does not index the official documentation for languages and frameworks? Tried a couple different searches for the things I work on and…
bragr on HNSeems neat, but trying to find Django documentation is not ideal: searching for "django prefetch" has GitHub repos as the first two results, and the third result is official…
ColonelPhantom on HN
Index is small compared with major engines
From 1 comment
The title mentioning “Brave” seems to be a red herring: there’s someone in the comments talking about Braze, though it looks like a typo. Similarly the “Who’s hiring” posts do…
wolfgang42 on HN
Requests
Index more official documentation and sources like GitHub, ReadTheDocs and MDN
From 4 comments
Great idea, but search is pretty bad right now. Searching for "django signals" got unofficial search results on the first page and all the links on the second page (1) are…
IceWreck on HNThis looks great! MDN docs are pretty strong. Perhaps devdocs is a superset, but if not, I’d recommend indexing them as well. Also, feature request: it’d be nice if the query…
pcl on HNOther sources you may wanna crawl - https://www.thecodingforums.com/ (and other programming-related online communities like Lobste.rs, certain subreddits, and certain Lemmy…
culi on HNFor PHP (and other languages) you could add popular framework docs like Symfony or Laravel
tomschwiha on HN
Handle symbols and versioned docs better
From 2 comments
This is great. Would be nice if it considered symbols better. Looked for "reject!" and it returned "reject" and "rejection" when "reject!" matches exist. Ironic given its name.
karmakaze on HNSeems neat, but trying to find Django documentation is not ideal: searching for "django prefetch" has GitHub repos as the first two results, and the third result is official…
ColonelPhantom on HN
Open-source the project
From 1 comment
This is awesome. I really enjoyed the UI and the no javascript. Could i ask you a question? What is your tech stack? (programing language, background worker, database) How often…
phpisatrash on HN
Questions
What is the tech stack and how often does the index update
From 1 comment
This is awesome. I really enjoyed the UI and the no javascript. Could i ask you a question? What is your tech stack? (programing language, background worker, database) How often…
phpisatrash on HN
What is the long-term goal of the project
From 1 comment
I found Feep while going through my coffee and ycombinator this morning. I find the idea of feep intriguing and I have just 2 questions. 1. What is your goal with feep? What are…
desijays on HN
Alternatives named
Google
From 2 comments
Love to see more independent indexes! Sometimes there seems like there's plenty of search engines, but when grouped by the indexes they rely on there's actually very few major…
culi on HNhttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=powershell+snipeit vs https://search.feep.dev/search?q=powershell+snipeit
justsomehnguy on HN
DuckDuckGo
From 1 comment
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=powershell+snipeit vs https://search.feep.dev/search?q=powershell+snipeit
justsomehnguy on HN
Marginalia
From 1 comment
Love to see more independent indexes! Sometimes there seems like there's plenty of search engines, but when grouped by the indexes they rely on there's actually very few major…
culi on HN
devdocs.io
From 2 comments
Is there a particular reason this site does not index the official documentation for languages and frameworks? Tried a couple different searches for the things I work on and…
bragr on HNI pull a lot of official documentation via https://devdocs.io ; Symfony and Laravel are both included, though (as others in this thread have noted) the current ranking is a bit…
wolfgang42 on HN
searchcode
From 1 comment
Love to see more independent indexes! Sometimes there seems like there's plenty of search engines, but when grouped by the indexes they rely on there's actually very few major…
culi on HN