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Show HN: Engineering.fyi - Search across tech engineering blogs in
one place
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
Author : indiehackerman
Score : 259 points
Date : 2025-08-10 13:44 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| colesantiago wrote:
| It would be great if you can add RSS on this.
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Adding to the list!
| whattheheckheck wrote:
| I get an ssl error
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Can you try again? Seems to be working for others
| plucafs wrote:
| I'd suggest to add the Riot Games tech blog
| (https://technology.riotgames.com)
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Adding to the list!
| shelika wrote:
| Biased as I work for them but I think
| https://incident.io/blog/engineering is definitely worth adding.
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Adding to the list!
| kushan2020 wrote:
| The performance is really slow on my phone - iPhone XR. Even
| selecting filters takes away lot of time.
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Made some performance improvements, hope it's better for you
| now!
| Catbert59 wrote:
| First thing I saw was an annoying Cloudflare captcha.. ugh
| gricardo99 wrote:
| nice concept. fyi, search feature doesn't seem to work
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Thanks for your support! Search should be fixed now
| dbgrman wrote:
| none of the filters seem to work for me. Good concept. Wish it
| wasn't in the done-to-death vibe coding UI.
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback! Have made fixes to the filters so
| please try again
| coldtrait wrote:
| What is a more standard UI that doesn't scream vibe coded?
| __natty__ wrote:
| 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?
| indiehackerman wrote:
| I read them especially when I'm picking up a new task at my job
| with new technologies
| dwedge wrote:
| 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
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback! Search should be better now
| netloks9599 wrote:
| I think you might want to add a "debounce" to the search,
| typing more than a few characters at a time automatically
| kicks off a new request for the entire page
| freetonik wrote:
| 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
| victorbjorklund wrote:
| Can we add / suggests sites?
| freetonik wrote:
| Sure, here: https://minifeed.net/suggest
| jpmonette wrote:
| Looks really nice! Any plan to add social aspect like comments,
| likes and such?
| OisinMoran wrote:
| I'm building something similar with a bit more of a social
| angle (has comments, likes, and reposts) at lynkmi.com. If
| you sign up to the waitlist it's a very very short wait!
| freetonik wrote:
| Thought about it, but not sure yet. Not too many user yet for
| that sort of thing.
| ozgrakkurt wrote:
| 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
| jagged-chisel wrote:
| Maybe I'm a bit out of the loop on Cloudflare's activity these
| days, but I'm not sure I understand your statement.
|
| Cloudflare thinks your browser is part of a DDoS?
|
| Cloudflare is attacking your browser from several places across
| the internet?
| 8organicbits wrote:
| My guess is that this refers to the CPU challenge. Presumably
| DDoS here should be DoS, specifically overwhelming their CPU
| or draining their battery.
|
| https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/278660/why-
| are-...
| ozgrakkurt wrote:
| On my phone, it locks up my browser with it's "check" so I
| have to restart it.
|
| I understand it isn't related to DDOS but used it as a joke
| since it is basically attacking my browser
| pbronez wrote:
| Cool idea. I thought I'd try to make a Kagi Lens to accomplish
| the same thing:
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| 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:
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| 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/
| pbronez wrote:
| When I use this lens to search for "Python" the top three hits
| are:
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| Meta's Pyrefly announcement (may 2025)
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| Netflix post about their overall use of python (March 2013)
|
| Google's announcement of the Croissant ML metadata format
| (March 2024)
| jzig wrote:
| Now make a lens of lenses!
| __turbobrew__ wrote:
| No AWS blog? If anything I have found the AWS blog the highest
| quality and most novel. The articles on things like route53 are
| really interesting.
| DiabloD3 wrote:
| Already hug of death?
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Back up now
| angelmm wrote:
| I like the concept. Many times I look for high quality articles
| to go deep on some topics. I recommend you the fly.io blog [1],
| it has really nice articles.
|
| [1] https://fly.io/blog/
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Adding to the list!
| kwakubiney wrote:
| Nice project. Filtering took forever though.
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Have made improvements to the filters! Hope you get a better
| experience now
| ayerajath wrote:
| this is good! will revisit soon!
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Thanks for your support!
| majom wrote:
| Great start. I would be great to see more blogs added to your
| project.
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Thanks for your support! Will definitely be adding plenty more
| this week
| zX41ZdbW wrote:
| Only 16 companies - quite sparse. May I ask to add my blog if
| possible? https://clickhouse.com/blog?category=engineering
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Just getting started but will definitely add to the list!
| WASDx wrote:
| FYI here is a list of hundreds of engineering blogs:
| https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Thanks! It's a great collection and have been using that as a
| reference. Hasn't been updated in a while but definitely will
| try to add as many as I can
| 8organicbits wrote:
| I've been collecting OPML blogrolls for a project, here's over
| one hundred I've found. I'll add this one too.
|
| https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/blogrolls/
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Awesome, thanks!
| aeve890 wrote:
| >Engineering
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| Looks inside
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| >15 tech companies blogs
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Gotta start somewhere :)
| xyst wrote:
| AI-grifters: "why bother using yet another search engine? In a
| few weeks {{preferred LLM}} will be trained on the underlying
| data"
| 8organicbits wrote:
| > Each blog requires custom parsing logic (no standard format)
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| This is unfortunate, RSS has promise to be that standard format.
| I've seen high adoption, but it's not universal.
| indiehackerman wrote:
| I started off with scraping through RSS but quickly realised it
| doesn't include all historical posts
| Quitschquat wrote:
| It would be cool to filter out the AI/LLM stuff
| indiehackerman wrote:
| Will add that to the list, thanks for the suggestion
| mmargenot wrote:
| 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.
| kathir05 wrote:
| This is interesting stuff!! Love to see further updates and scale
| on this
| kenanfyi wrote:
| Looks good, but it's fascinating the term engineering nowadays
| almost only boils down to software(also mostly web) and AI,
| although it is way more than that.
| mrugge wrote:
| the engineering that pays (big bucks)
| cosmicgadget wrote:
| Great idea and the post preview cards are excellent.
|
| I've found software security companies tend to have interesting
| blog posts.
| fuzball1989 wrote:
| Are you sure you want to add hundreds of blogs? I would keep it
| curated to 10-20 otherwise it will turn into an RSS feed but I
| think you are chasing a goal of having the most interesting blogs
| to read and for people to use in their designs, coding etc.
| yieldcrv wrote:
| Thanks for having a default feed to show an example of what to
| expect
|
| So many show and tells neglect that
| meander_water wrote:
| There's a good list here which you could add as well
| https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
| bkhl wrote:
| > Current status: Core search is working. Adding new blogs weekly
| as I index them.
|
| I guess this is a reason why it does not have recent blogs from
| some of the sites. Otherwise, it's definitely something I'd use
| gombosg wrote:
| I kind of miss the RSS days when you just had your own news/blog
| aggregator without the annoyance of Substack, Medium or anything
| else.
| dgs_sgd wrote:
| Awesome work! I would suggest adding Netflix's blog [1]. It's
| very high quality imo.
|
| [1] https://netflixtechblog.com/
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