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470 points by indiehackerman ↗ HN
I built a search engine for engineering blogs because I was tired of manually checking individual company blogs to find real-world production examples.

The problem: When learning a new technology, the best insights often come from how companies like Google, Meta, or Stripe actually implement it in production. But these gems are scattered across dozens of separate engineering blogs with no way to search across them.

What I built: Engineering.fyi indexes engineering blogs from ~15 companies (Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, Uber, etc.) and makes them searchable in one place. You can filter by topic, difficulty level, and whether articles include code samples.

Technical details: - Built with Next.js, SQLite, DrizzleORM - Custom scrapers for each blog (they're all frustratingly different) - Basic tagging system using content matching (still improving this)

Current status: Core search is working. Adding new blogs weekly as I index them.

Next features (based on early feedback): - AI summaries for quick article previews - Weekly digest of trending engineering insights - Save/bookmark articles (considering whether to add accounts)

Interesting challenges: - Each blog requires custom parsing logic (no standard format) - Building an accurate tagging system is harder than expected – started with exact matching but exploring better approaches

I'd love feedback on: - Which company engineering blogs you'd find most valuable to include - Whether AI summaries would actually be useful or just noise - How you currently discover engineering articles from these companies

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colesantiago
It would be great if you can add RSS on this.
kushan2020
The performance is really slow on my phone - iPhone XR. Even selecting filters takes away lot of time.
Catbert59
First thing I saw was an annoying Cloudflare captcha.. ugh
gricardo99
nice concept. fyi, search feature doesn’t seem to work
dbgrman
none of the filters seem to work for me. Good concept. Wish it wasn't in the done-to-death vibe coding UI.
__natty__
I have so many of tech blogs in my bookmarks. And I open them maybe once per month. How often do you read these blogs?
dwedge
I love this idea. Like others mentioned the cloudflare is annoying and search is way too slow, but as a concept I like it. Make it faster and I can see myself using this every week
freetonik
Shameless plug, but hopefully relevant enough: my directory and search engine for personal blogs[1] indexes over 1000 RSS feeds, and naturally lots of them are about engineering and software development. Full-text search is implemented with Typesense, and there are also "related" recommendations for each post, example [2].

1. https://minifeed.net/

2. https://minifeed.net/items/n1HZYMDEKyra

pnt12
I was surprised that I started reading one blog on your site, and it was badly written. Only afterwards below the text, did I notice it was a summary!

I'd advise to put it at the top, before the text, to let people know beforehand and not be caught off guard. Then you can have a big button saying "read full article in website" or something, to make it easy for people to see both options.

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ozgrakkurt
Amazing idea but Cloudflare DDOSes my browser when I try to open it.

Also a nice reminder to move my website off of cloudflare asap

pbronez
Cool idea. I thought I’d try to make a Kagi Lens to accomplish the same thing:

https://kagi.com/lenses/LdYine8hZtYmrt8yTMngOUtvTM9rmkRy

Kagi Lenses can be defined in many ways, one of which is specifying URLs to search. Unfortunately you can only provide 10 URLs per lens. Here are the ones I chose:

https://stripe.com/blog/engineering, https://engineering.fb.com/, https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/engineering/, https://netflixtechblog.com/, https://research.google/blog/, https://technology.riotgames.com/, https://incident.io/blog, https://www.anthropic.com/engineering, https://openai.com/news/, https://shopify.engineering/

kwakubiney
Nice project. Filtering took forever though.
ayerajath
this is good! will revisit soon!
majom
Great start. I would be great to see more blogs added to your project.
aeve890
>Engineering

Looks inside

>15 tech companies blogs

xyst
AI-grifters: "why bother using yet another search engine? In a few weeks {{preferred LLM}} will be trained on the underlying data"
8organicbits
> Each blog requires custom parsing logic (no standard format)

This is unfortunate, RSS has promise to be that standard format. I've seen high adoption, but it's not universal.

Quitschquat
It would be cool to filter out the AI/LLM stuff
mmargenot
Are you trying to stick with company blogs primarily, or to expand into general non-affiliated eng blogs? People like Maggie Appleton (https://maggieappleton.com/) and Patrick McKenzie (https://www.kalzumeus.com/) frequently have compelling ideas around technology, but I suppose that's a different "product" from what a company blog is selling.