Sosumi.ai

Dev tools

documentation converter

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133points
72comments
#564of 3,837 in 2025
Top 15%of 2025 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

14 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 35 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.

Idea: 3 for, 5 againstDocs: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful for Swift and iOS developers

    From 3 comments
    • As someone who is currently building my first iOS app, I am extremely happy to have this. This will be much nicer doing my animation documentation.
      smerrill25 on HN
    • I’m building a swift app now and will most definitely give this a try
      zach_moore on HN
    • Can't wait to use this. Its awesome!
      awaseem on HN
  • Nostalgic sound easter egg

    From 1 comment

Objections

  • Framing around AI is unnecessary; just Markdown

    From 2 comments
    • "AI-readable Markdown" — can't we just say "Markdown"? I'm serious about this, why are we focussing on making things accessible to AI when they should just be machine-readable…
      oneeyedpigeon on HN
    • An “AI” that makes text “AI”-readable. How does that make any sense?
      tempodox on HN
  • Apple's JavaScript rendering of docs is questionable

    From 1 comment
    • > Apple's docs are JavaScript-rendered Makes you wonder what's the point of this “choice”.
      olgeni on HN
  • Conversion may drop exact function signatures

    From 1 comment
    • Great promise; sometimes need to reference docs to build context. I looked at the examples you posted and did a quick glance. For example '''init?(exactly: Float80)''' the tool…
      qazxcvbnmlp on HN

Requests

  • Open source the code

    From 2 comments
  • Downloadable archive for local search

    From 1 comment
    • Is it possible to download an archive of the data so I can run searches against it locally (without AI)?
      saagarjha on HN

Questions

  • Is it open source?

    From 1 comment
  • How does it handle concurrency docs?

    From 1 comment
    • Very interesting. You have any before and after examples? Curious how it handles some of the concurrency stuff. Actors, async/await etc..
      thomask1995 on HN

Alternatives named

  • llm.codes

    From 1 comment
    • Another awesome project that does this for Apple's docs: https://llm.codes/ Also, Apple has started shipping docs like this, too. They are a bit hidden but you can find them…
      jordanmorgan10 on HN
  • Jina AI Reader

    From 1 comment
    • There are APIs such as Jina AI's reader API that do this pretty well. It doesn't produce output as clean as Sosumi for Apple docs, but it's free and does a decent job.…
      michaelmior on HN
  • pure.md

    From 1 comment
    • https://pure.md is exactly what you're looking for. But stripping complex formats like html & pdf down to simple markdown is a hard problem. It's nearly impossible to infer what…
      crazylogger on HN
  • Xcode bundled AdditionalDocumentation

    From 1 comment
    • Another awesome project that does this for Apple's docs: https://llm.codes/ Also, Apple has started shipping docs like this, too. They are a bit hidden but you can find them…
      jordanmorgan10 on HN

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