Show HN: Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative

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Learn about Sourcebot, an open-source alternative to Sourcegraph for code search, and how to use it to search across large codebases

intermediate Published 1 Oct 2024

Action Steps

Try Sourcebot on the demo site to experience its code search capabilities
Run the demo video to understand the features and functionality of Sourcebot
Configure Sourcebot to index your own codebases and expose a web-based search interface
Test Sourcebot's search functionality across multiple large codebases
Compare Sourcebot's features and pricing with Sourcegraph to determine the best fit for your organization

Who Needs to Know This

Developers and engineering teams can benefit from using Sourcebot to efficiently search and navigate their codebases, reducing the time spent on searching and increasing productivity

Key Insight

💡 Sourcebot provides an efficient and cost-effective solution for searching across large codebases, making it an attractive alternative to Sourcegraph

Full Article

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=

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