Launch HN: Hello (YC S22) – A search engine for developers

Hi HN, we’re Michael and Justin from Hello Cognition ( https://beta.sayhello.so ). We're building a better search engine for software developers. Hello saves you time by synthesizing clear explanations to technical questions along with code snippets from the web, showing them right on the search page. We’ve found that most technical searches fall into a few categories: ad-hoc how-tos, understanding an API, recalling forgotten details, research, or troubleshooting. Google is too broad and shallow of a search tool to be good at this. Even after sifting through the deluge of spammy, irrelevant sites pumped full of SEO, you still have to manually find your answer through discussion boards or documentation. Their “featured snippet” approach works for simple factoid queries but quickly falls apart if a question requires reasoning about information across multiple webpages. Our approach is narrow and deep — to retrieve detailed information for topics relevant to developers. Whe