Unblocked – Get answers for questions about your codebase
Hey HN, I'm Dennis and I'm the founder of Unblocked. Unblocked provides helpful and accurate answers to any question about your codebase. When a project and team gets big enough, one of the most time consuming parts of building software is understanding the entirety of your codebase — how it works, why it was written, and works the way it does. Based on our collective painful experiences of countless hours in meetings, dealing with interruptions and digging through obsolete documentation while building software at companies like Microsoft, Amazon, facebook/Meta and Apple… we created…
Unblocked – Get answers for questions about your codebase launched on October 3, 2023 with 39 votes, #1,265 of 4,393 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Unblocked answers questions about a codebase by connecting to source code providers and documentation sources. It is designed for software developers and teams working on large projects who need to understand how their code works and why it was written a certain way. The tool aims to reduce time spent in meetings and searching through outdated documentation by providing quick, accurate answers directly about the codebase.
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From the sources
Unblocked gives AI agents trusted context across code, conversations, issues, docs, and production systems so they can complete work correctly.
Unblocked is the context layer for agentic software development. It reasons across your code, conversations, issues, docs, product, and production systems so agents can complete work correctly with less human intervention. Markdown goes stale. MCP exposes individual systems. Neither resolves conflicts, weighs recency, or determines what matters for the task at hand. We ran the exact same engineering task twice using the same coding agent, codebase, and prompt. The only difference was access to Unblocked. With full context on dependencies and consumption patterns, the agent didn’t waste search tokens or generate useless output. Unblocked gave our engineer 2 hours and 5 minutes back that…from getunblocked.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN, I'm Dennis and I'm the founder of Unblocked. Unblocked provides helpful and accurate answers to any question about your codebase. When a project and team gets big enough, one of the most time consuming parts of building software is understanding the entirety of your codebase — how it works, why it was…
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