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420 pointsby indiehackermanlast Sunday at 1:44 PM108 commentsview on 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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g8ozlast Monday at 3:24 PM

I would add: - Instacart - Temporal - Pinterest - Etsy - Atlassian

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skyzouwdevlast Monday at 12:10 PM

I like the premise — I’ve lost count of how many times I ended up deep in Google’s search results or on page 4 of some company blog just to find a relevant architecture post.

A couple of thoughts from my own workflow: • I’d definitely add smaller but high-signal engineering blogs. Some of the most interesting write-ups I’ve read came from companies that aren’t FAANG-level but are operating at scale (think Segment, Plaid, Posthog, Linear). They often publish very focused “lessons learned” pieces that don’t get much SEO love. • AI summaries could be useful if they’re really accurate and highlight the “why” behind a technical decision, not just rephrase the intro paragraph. I’d probably use them to triage which posts to read in full. • For discovery, I usually rely on Twitter/X and the occasional Reddit thread. The problem is that those channels are noisy — so something that’s searchable and filterable like you’ve built is appealing.

One nit: for tagging, maybe consider a lightweight NLP approach (spaCy / transformers) that can detect concepts beyond exact matches. Even basic keyword clustering could improve relevance without needing a massive ML pipeline.

Nice work — bookmarking this for the next time I need to dig into how someone scaled their job queues without setting their hair on fire.

gombosglast Sunday at 9:48 PM

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.

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zX41ZdbWlast Sunday at 3:31 PM

Only 16 companies - quite sparse. May I ask to add my blog if possible? https://clickhouse.com/blog?category=engineering

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freetoniklast Sunday at 2:26 PM

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

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angelmmlast Sunday at 2:31 PM

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/

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kenanfyilast Sunday at 6:54 PM

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.

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chandu_vrslast Monday at 6:22 AM

Nice work. I started working on something similar, but my use case is slightly different (but the solution is similar). We all are interested in certain topics, there is a lot of content that gets published and our time is limited, so we need something that helps us identify top 10 articles or so per topic. This is why most of us like HackerNews. I think HackerNews by topic or interest would be a good idea to implement (but along with users posting links, it can come from crawling few sites as well)

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idoshlast Monday at 5:30 AM

Shameless plug, you can find all of them and many more on https://daily.dev/. It's a personalized aggregator for developer news

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plucafslast Sunday at 2:01 PM

I'd suggest to add the Riot Games tech blog (https://technology.riotgames.com)

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skhamenehlast Monday at 1:50 AM

Can you add cross support for Fediverse? I really haven't been keeping up but I think with ActivityPub you can support Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads. A lot of the general support and progress went from GNU Social > Mastodon > whatever.

FailureCrownlast Monday at 1:36 PM

I can't find tags for C#, asp.Net

meander_waterlast Sunday at 9:29 PM

There's a good list here which you could add as well https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

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demarqlast Monday at 1:09 AM

> When learning a new technology, the best insights often come from how companies like Google, Meta, or Stripe actually implement it in production.

I think not.

ozgrakkurtlast Sunday at 2:26 PM

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

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ordinarilylast Monday at 3:26 AM

This is awesome! We got some really technical deep dives here https://www.warpstream.com/blog-category/engineering

mmargenotlast Sunday at 5:41 PM

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.

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LtdJorgelast Monday at 7:25 AM

Should definitely be able to filter out any of the sources. Unless that's already there and I'm not seeing it.

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8organicbitslast Sunday at 4:25 PM

> 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.

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farai89last Monday at 1:40 AM

This is great. Would be good if you add RAMP also, have found the engineering blog useful. https://engineering.ramp.com/

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ndom91last Monday at 12:57 AM

Nice one! You should definitely offer some sort of master rss feed though

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Catbert59last Sunday at 2:13 PM

First thing I saw was an annoying Cloudflare captcha.. ugh

brikymlast Sunday at 11:26 PM

I can't say I like the infinite scrolling and lack of body scroll bar.

dgs_sgdlast Sunday at 10:55 PM

Awesome work! I would suggest adding Netflix’s blog [1]. It’s very high quality imo.

[1] https://netflixtechblog.com/

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bkhllast Sunday at 9:37 PM

> 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

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WASDxlast Sunday at 3:40 PM

FYI here is a list of hundreds of engineering blogs: https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

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shelikalast Sunday at 2:02 PM

Biased as I work for them but I think https://incident.io/blog/engineering is definitely worth adding.

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cosmicgadgetlast Sunday at 7:03 PM

Great idea and the post preview cards are excellent.

I've found software security companies tend to have interesting blog posts.

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fuzball1989last Sunday at 8:24 PM

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.

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colesantiagolast Sunday at 1:52 PM

It would be great if you can add RSS on this.

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matkurianskilast Monday at 2:07 AM

I always wanted something like that. Awesome job!

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__natty__last Sunday at 2:18 PM

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?

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dbgrmanlast Sunday at 2:15 PM

none of the filters seem to work for me. Good concept. Wish it wasn't in the done-to-death vibe coding UI.

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kushan2020last Sunday at 2:08 PM

The performance is really slow on my phone - iPhone XR. Even selecting filters takes away lot of time.

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kathir05last Sunday at 6:07 PM

This is interesting stuff!! Love to see further updates and scale on this

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majomlast Sunday at 2:50 PM

Great start. I would be great to see more blogs added to your project.

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Quitschquatlast Sunday at 5:06 PM

It would be cool to filter out the AI/LLM stuff

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aeve890last Sunday at 3:53 PM

>Engineering

Looks inside

>15 tech companies blogs

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DiabloD3last Sunday at 2:30 PM

Already hug of death?

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dwedgelast Sunday at 2:24 PM

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

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kwakubineylast Sunday at 2:33 PM

Nice project. Filtering took forever though.

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pbronezlast Sunday at 2:27 PM

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/

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gricardo99last Sunday at 2:14 PM

nice concept. fyi, search feature doesn’t seem to work

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anonymous344last Monday at 4:37 AM

order by latest?

whattheheckhecklast Sunday at 1:58 PM

I get an ssl error

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yieldcrvlast Sunday at 9:16 PM

Thanks for having a default feed to show an example of what to expect

So many show and tells neglect that

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ayerajathlast Sunday at 2:38 PM

this is good! will revisit soon!

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xystlast Sunday at 4:05 PM

AI-grifters: "why bother using yet another search engine? In a few weeks {{preferred LLM}} will be trained on the underlying data"

tamimiolast Monday at 1:54 AM

I believe there should be an industry standard to distinguish between engineers (the ones who spent 4-5 years in school) and software engineers (not necessarily those who spent 4-5 years in school) by name only. Either one should not be called engineers anymore, or the other should be called legacy engineers or something along these lines. I was expecting to search through articles of IEEE, RF, hardware maybe, or even other disciplines like civil and mechanical. The word "engineer" lost its meaning in the past ~2 decades because everyone now who touches a PC suddenly can call themselves an engineer, diluting the market now with hordes of bootcampers and "prompt engineers". How come we don't see the same in other white-collar jobs like doctors, nurses, lawyers, or even blue-collar ones that now require some sort of control over who calls themselves or is able to work in a trade by having apprenticeships? P. Eng isn't enforced, so it's meaningless.

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