AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hello
The best search engine for software developers
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hello launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN, Today we’re launching GPT-4 answers on Phind.com, a developer-focused search engine that uses generative AI to browse the web and answer technical questions, complete with code examples and detailed explanations. Unlike vanilla GPT-4, Phind feeds in relevant websites and technical documentation, reducing the model’s hallucination and keeping it up-to-date. To use it, simply enable the “Expert” toggle before doing a search. GPT-4 is making a night-and-day difference in terms of answer quality. For a question like “How can I RLHF a LLaMa model”, Phind in Expert mode delivers a…
2023 · phind.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I am Jiayuan, and I'm here to introduce a tool we've been building over the past few months: Devv (https://devv.ai). In simple terms, it is an AI-powered search engine specifically designed for developers. Now, you might ask, with so many AI search engines already available—Perplexity, You.com, Phind, and several open-source projects—why do we need another one? We all know that Generative Search Engines are built on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)[1] combined with Large Language Models (LLMs). Most of the products mentioned above use indexes from general search engines…
2024 · devv.ai · its alternatives →
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- 4DS
2020 · usedevbook.com · its alternatives →
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Devv.AI▲456Developer-centric AI search, augmented by code and docs
2024 · devv.ai · its alternatives →
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- 7TM
Free Recruitment Meta Search Engine for Sourcing Software Developers
2023 · talentsignals.com · its alternatives →
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stackoverflow.ai▲421AI-powered, conversational search and discovery tool
2025 · stackoverflow.com · its alternatives →
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Code Finder▲255The ultimate search engine for GitHub repositories
2024 · codefinder.dev · its alternatives →
- 10AE
2018 · codegrep.com · its alternatives →
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Query programming languages using natural language!
2020 · codesnippetsearch.net · its alternatives →
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- 13DR
I'd like to invite everyone to try out DontBeEvil.rip, an experimental search engine for developers. tl;dr $ alias rip="curl -G -H 'Accept: text/plain' --url https://dontbeevil.rip/search --data-urlencode " $ rip 'q=Heartbleed bug' DontBeEvil.rip is a year long experiment to see if a small team can build a developer-focused search engine that is self-sustaining on $10 monthly subscriptions. It works by only indexing high-quality resources that are relevant to developers. You won't get useless listicles because we'll never crawl them. Relevant urls are harvested from HN,…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Find the code you need faster
2019 · quod.ai · its alternatives →
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🔍 Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3. - jokenox/Goopt
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 20GE
Hello Hacker News community, Wanted to share a project I started working on during my spare time and was then discovered by many in the open source community last week. GPT Engineer’s mission: Be the open platform for devs to tinker with and build their personal code-generation toolbox. I believe it's key for us devs to engage in how building software can and will change. You can find more info about the flexible technical "philosophy" to make it work well, and the community we want it to become on github: https://github.com/AntonOsika/gpt-engineer The project is still in…
2023 · its alternatives →
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Knowstory▲140AI search bar Chrome extension for developer docs
2023 · reformhq.com · its alternatives →
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Generate blog post ideas in seconds
2020 · usetopic.com · its alternatives →
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Curated gamedev search engine
2025 · gamedevtorch.com · its alternatives →
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