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24 alternatives to The Search

The all in one search engine for PH, DN, HN and GitHub ✊

The Search is a web app that searches across Product Hunt, Designer News, Hacker News, and GitHub in one place. Designed for developers and tech enthusiasts, it consolidates results from these four platforms into a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Search launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    If Product Hunt and Hacker News had a baby

    2017 · hackerhunt.co · its alternatives →

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    Product Hunt is a curation of the best new products, every day. Discover the latest mobile apps, websites, and technology products that everyone's talking about.

    2014 · producthunt.co · its alternatives →

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    A new experimental UI for Hacker News Search

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    One▲414

    Read Product Hunt, HN, DN, Reddit, Medium from Mac menu bar

    2014 · one.hackplan.com · its alternatives →

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    Git Hunt▲234

    Product Hunt for GitHub

    2015 · githunt.io · its alternatives →

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    The ultimate search engine for GitHub repositories

    2024 · codefinder.dev · its alternatives →

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    Product Hunt + Hacker News + Designer News

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I'm Jonathan and I built Hacker Search (https://hackersearch.net), a semantic search engine for Hacker News. Type a keyword or a description of what you're interested in, and you'll get top links from HN surfaced to you along with brief summaries. Unlike HN's otherwise very valuable search feature, Hacker Search doesn't require you to get your keywords exactly right. That's achieved by leveraging OpenAI's latest embedding models alongside more traditional indexes extracted from the scraped and cleaned up contents of the links. I think there are many more interesting things…

    2024 · hackersearch.net · its alternatives →

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    The Skimm, but for fresh tech jobs and career advice

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    It's like ProductHunt's search bar, but smart as Google's

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    A source code search engine

    2014 · searchcode.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13AD

    We (Nick, Dens, Denzell, Fede, Drew, Aaryan, and Daniel) have been building HN Discovery, a discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News, in our spare time for the past 6 months and are excited to show it! It adds the following features relative to the existing keyword search interface and preserves the existing ones: - no-JS version (hnnojs.trieve.ai) - site:{required_site} and site:{negated-site} filters - public analytics - LLM generated query suggestions based on random stories - recommendations - dense vector semantic search - SPLADE fulltext search - RAG AI chat - order by…

    2024 · hn.trieve.ai · its alternatives →

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    One App▲182

    Read Product Hunt, Hacker News, DN & Reddit in one place

    2015 · reader.one · its alternatives →

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    ǝlƃooפ▲269

    Flipping search on its head

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Stackeo▲169

    Product Hunt for Coding Tools

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Toole▲179

    Search for and discover online tools

    2015 · toole.io · its alternatives →

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    Product Hunt for UX research

    2014 · researchers.io · its alternatives →

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    Leap.it▲76

    A visual search engine for the web

    2014 · leap.it · its alternatives →

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    An experimental AI-organized search results page

    2025 · blog.google · its alternatives →

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    Quickly search through web development things

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    The Human Search Engine

    2015 · onedegree.co · its alternatives →

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