404Nerds: The Social Platform for Gamers
Stop scrolling the doom-feed
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Stop scrolling the doom-feed
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404Nerds is the new social space engineered to bridge the gap between game developers, designers, and the passionate players who fuel the industry. We replace viral noise with deep, curated discussions. Finally, a feed that surfaces post-mortems, design philosophy, and genuine community feedback, not just meme spam. Share your latest prototype, find playtesters, and connect with the industry’s most creative minds. Join us for the Early Access launch!
Huge Update: Nerd Search is LIVE and Already Crawling Millions of Pages
Hey Product Hunt,
I’m excited to share a major upgrade to 404Nerds — we’ve officially launched Nerd Search, our new search engine built specifically for gamers, game developers, and technical creators.
Powered by our custom crawler: LootSpid3r
We built our own web crawler from scratch, and it’s already making serious progress:
Over 7 million links indexed
More than 20,000 websites scanned
Growing continuously
Tuned to prioritize devlogs, tutorials, open-source repos, documentation, and practical technical content
No SEO spam, no filler, no generic content farms
Why Nerd Search
Most search engines bury the information we actually want under ads and low-effort SEO pages.
Nerd Search focuses instead on:
Game development tutorials and engines
Modding guides
Technical blogs
Indie dev resources
GitHub repositories
Documentation, wikis, and real “builder” content
It’s fast, lightweight, and built specifically for the nerd community.
Try it out
https://search.404nerds.com
If you try it, I’d appreciate any feedback. We’re currently around the #100 mark, and every bit of support, testing, or sharing helps us continue improving Nerd Search.
Happy to answer questions or share more about how LootSpid3r, the indexer, and ranking system work.