Devbook - Search engine for developers

Hey PH community! 👋 @valentatomas and I started building Devbook when we realized how much time we spend on googling and going through different websites when coding. Current general internet search engines weren't made for developers but they're a tool that every developer is using almost every day. We felt like we are sometimes losing hours per week searching on the internet. That's why decided to build a search engine for developers. Starting with Stack Overflow and official documentation. We are both developers and have been working together for more than 11 years. With Devbook, our productivity has increased. It's now also easier to stay in the coding flow because we don't have to leave our IDEs and go to the browser so much. We just hit a shortcut to show Devbook, get what we need and go back to coding. 10x faster than going to a browser. This is how Devbook works 👇 Devbook is a desktop app that works similarly to Spotlight on macOS. You hit a global shortcut and can start searching in Stack Overflow and docs right away. Since Devbook appears as an overlay on top of an app you're using right now, you don't have to leave your editor at all. Devbook can be fully controlled with just a keyboard. Even copying code snippets can be without touching a mouse. 📚 Currently we support these docs * Python * Pandas * Scikit * PyTorch * Jest * Mocha * Chai * Golang * Elixir * Flask * Django * TypeScript * Rust * React * Rails * Ruby * Web DOM API * Nunjucks * NPM * Node.js * HTTP * HTML * Docker * NumPy * CSS * JavaScript
 We are continuously adding more. We are also working on a way to add docs for NPM packages, PIP packages, Rust crates, etc. A lot of exciting features are coming to Devbook this year. 💰 Pricing: Free. We want Devbook to be free for solo devs. Later on, we will introduce premium plans for teams. We would love to learn what you think so we could make Devbook better. With your feedback we can make developers better and more productive! 🙏 - Vasek (co-founder)

Great useful product! Well done!

Great idea! One quick suggestion, from being a long-time fan and user of https://devdocs.io/: it would be nice to be able to select more than one active documentation source and keep them active persistently – for example, if my stack is TypeScript on Node.js with Jest, I would probably like to search across TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js and Jest all the time without switching sources. For the rest, brilliant product! Love how you kept everything navigable through keyboard 🤓⌨️

Great product, it really helps me working more productive

Within seconds of the product introduction, I'm sold on the idea of this product. Kudos for an amazing product.

Brilliant idea, Vasek & Tomáš, thanks for building it! I'm trying to use it in my Windows laptop, but I can't go past the initial screen as the button is hidden at the bottom and I can't scroll - my screen size is quite small and zoomed-in. May be worth some debugging 🙈

Since it's a search engine for documentation do you plan on allowing users a way to add their own internal or custom documentation for like homelab environments or user-specific usecases somehow? Example. I'm learning docker-compose currently and i'm setting stuff up on a laptop in my house, could i somehow add documentation -- to list out what computer it's on the static ip of the computer, necessary passwords and any other documentation of my setup, -- and be able to search that within devbook when i'm working on my compose files on my local machine, or even potentially host devbook custom files and sync them between my computers for access anywhere?

Great product! Can get really distracted sometimes when searching SO and documentation online, this will make things so much quicker and more productive! Are there any plans to make this into an extension?

Such an amazing creation man. At first I was sceptical about this. But now I use it daily. Waiting for more updates and features on this.

I like the idea of devbook in general as something that would let me search through all documentations without leaving my editor. It also goes with my dark themed vscode. It'd be great if: 1. It becomes an internal vscode extension instead of a full windows app. 2. Supports more documentations like graphql, apollo-server, graphql-tools, kubernetes.io 🤷🏻‍♂️.This is just my personal preference. 3. There can be a master search that would search through all documentations simultaneously. I may be able to preconfigure what documentations I usually work with and group those — in my case, javascript, nodejs, and graphql, these days. And when I hit a shortcut, a search appears that would only search from my preselected documentations. 4. Support for github issues maybe. Bcz many times the bug isn't your fault and usually resolved in the respective repo. I love your dark theme. Keep up the keyboard shortcuts game ❤️.

Great stuff! Love it so far

Such a great tool. Saves so much time!

It often happens that some function is spinning in your head and you can't remember :) This is like Google for developers.

Great product Vasek, it helps alot :)

I'm using Devbook almost since day 1 and very pleased to see how it grow each day. Thank you for this killer app and congrats on your launch!

Where is gone github search? :)

Looks promising. Any plans for adding iOS/Swift?

Great product, good work Vasek/Tomas. Has been exciting to see develop. Nice hat

Every CS friend of mine saying "the first thing you learn at uni is how to google" should see this 🔥

It sounds a lot like a cross-platform version of https://kapeli.com/dash - would be useful to see a comparison. (Note there's a 3rd party Dash-compatible product https://velocity.silverlakesoftw... too). If you have added features over Dash might be worth being compatible with their docset format.