Show HN: Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative

📰 Hacker News · bshzzle

Hi HN, We’re Brendan and Michael, the creators of Sourcebot ( https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot ). Sourcebot is an open-source code search tool that allows you to quickly search across many large codebases. Check out our demo video here: https://youtu.be/mrIFYSB_1F4 , or try it for yourself on our demo site here: https://demo.sourcebot.dev While at prior roles, we’ve both felt the pain of searching across hundreds of multi-million line codebases. Using local tools like grep were ill-suited since you often only had a handful of codebases checked out at a time. Sourcegraph ( https://sourcegraph.com/ ) solves this issue by indexing a collection of codebases in the background and exposing a web-based search interface. It is the de-facto search solution for medium to large orgs, but is often cited as expensive ($49 per user / month) and recently went closed source ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

Published 1 Oct 2024
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