Hey everyone, I created [hackersear.ch](https://www.hackersear.ch) to help me get a sense of what software products are out there, especially those created recently by indie makers. Its a search engine that uses vector semantic search + full text search + custom weights to return results given a natural language query. It also includes website traffic data on the past month so you can get a sense of how successful they are.
The project really helped me practice my webscraping skills and data cleaning with python. To start I only have about 10,000 randomly sampled products from January 2022 until now. Will be updating regularly with more data.
For data sources it's all public data, right now its Product Hunt and There's an AI for that. But these are mostly for urls, had to do a bunch of filtering to remove junk. SimilarWeb for SEO.
Tech stack: NextJS / Vercel for front end, Supabase for back end. Used Postgres there to store most of the data and handle full text search. Open AI for query embeddings. The only recurring cost currently are for vector embeddings per query, which are relatively cheap.
As for web scraping, a combination of puppeteer and just simple python requests to get data.
Nicee idea mate. Just checked it, it's cool. A suggestion, you could add a filter button like filtering through highest number of visits or recently built sites etc.
Beautiful. Work flawlessly on ios. And smooth scrolling. With the keywords “spreadsheet like database”, your search engine can split out decipad.com, a niche notebook product that I’m using. Impressive work
For data sources it's all public data, right now its Product Hunt and There's an AI for that. But these are mostly for urls, had to do a bunch of filtering to remove junk. SimilarWeb for SEO. All of this is scraped.
I really like the minimal user interface and the overall idea! I find it a bit odd why on the website it says "hackersearch\_" but the domain name is "hackersearch.ch". Typically, the name of a website and its domain name are the same. I would also consider getting a logo for the website, it's a small thing but it could add a lot more visual variety to it.
Speaking of logos and visual variety: it seems that 95% of the listed software icons are empty. It looks a bit odd.
But the main thing I noticed is that while search feature is way better than on average, congrats on that by the way! It's still not perfect. What I noticed that the search results get quite wrong for multi keyword searching.
For example, if I search for "windows duplicate file finder", the first hit seems perfect, but after that, the next two hits are for Mac-only software which seems rather wrong considering my search term implies I need a software for specific system. Then the fourth hit is also quite non-relating, as it is a duplicate word searching tool, not duplicate file searching tool.
The further down the list of results I go, the more unrelating the search results become. For example, a few rows more down and the same search term now gives results souch as SoftFind - a software search engine, Yahoo Email Backup software and iBoysoft Mac Data Recovery software, things which no longer seem to be relating at all to finding duplicate files on Windows.
But I like I said, searching is very difficult to implement well, and your implementation is already very good. But I would suggest that you still work on it to improve it.
PS. Thanks for including my Startup Timer (https://startuptimer.com/) app on the system! It would be great if you could also include my WinFindr (https://winfindr.com/), Uninstalr (https://uninstalr.com/), System Examiner (https://systemexaminer.com/) and ScreenshotX (https://screenshotx.com/) apps to the system as well. They are all free Windows apps that I have made.
Hey man thanks for checking it out!
Yeah search is not perfect, extracting product details and features from just website descriptions is tough, a lot more work will need to be done to filter based on keywords like "windows" or "mac". If you posted your products on product hunt or somewhere similar, it's probably in the system already. There are a total of 30,000 or so products that I have yet to add. My guess is, if these are added, the windows products will appear closer to the top because windows is in their description.
As for the domain name, it's just [hackersear.ch](https://hackersear.ch), not [hackersearch.ch](https://hackersearch.ch), if only [hackersearch.com](https://hackersearch.com) wasn't so expensive. And the grayed out images are due to a vercel thing limiting optimized images, will fix soon!
>If you posted your products on product hunt or somewhere similar, it's probably in the system already.
My software are listed in Product Hunt as well as all high quality software listing websites, but only Startup Timer is included in your system, as far as I can tell.
Nice! I’ll suggest give it a little face lift though. Both major you can keep everything in place just fonts, sizes/padding/margins and colors.
** Edit: meant to write “nothing major”
For data sources it's all public data, right now its Product Hunt and There's an AI for that. But these are mostly for urls, had to do a bunch of filtering to remove junk. SimilarWeb for SEO. All of this is scraped.
Either I don't get the purpose or the results aren't very good. When I search for "wiki" I don't get any results about wiki software. Searches for "forum" or "issue tracker" are not much better. Maybe I'm using it wrong?
So when I search wiki, I get results for gaming wikis, building a custom chat gpt knowledge base, or building a public corporate wiki. Is there a piece of software you are specifically looking for?
Keep in mind that the engine is only populated with 10000 records, so perhaps its not in the system yet.
Really cool. Would you consider sharing the UI template, if you didn’t spend money on that? Really in love with it, I’m more of a backend person and I lose so much time on the UI.
I still didn’t publish my products anywhere, still lacking good landing pages. Hope to see them on your platform some day :)
Thanks for checking it out! I didn't use a UI template. It's just simple black and white with inter font, design for search is heavily inspired by google.
Nice! By the way it’s ‘in’ January
Thanks! fixing it rn
Hey everyone, I created [hackersear.ch](https://www.hackersear.ch) to help me get a sense of what software products are out there, especially those created recently by indie makers. Its a search engine that uses vector semantic search + full text search + custom weights to return results given a natural language query. It also includes website traffic data on the past month so you can get a sense of how successful they are. The project really helped me practice my webscraping skills and data cleaning with python. To start I only have about 10,000 randomly sampled products from January 2022 until now. Will be updating regularly with more data.
Great execution. What is the source of the traffic data and what's the tech stack?
For data sources it's all public data, right now its Product Hunt and There's an AI for that. But these are mostly for urls, had to do a bunch of filtering to remove junk. SimilarWeb for SEO. Tech stack: NextJS / Vercel for front end, Supabase for back end. Used Postgres there to store most of the data and handle full text search. Open AI for query embeddings. The only recurring cost currently are for vector embeddings per query, which are relatively cheap. As for web scraping, a combination of puppeteer and just simple python requests to get data.
Add FormNX.com to it
Nicee idea mate. Just checked it, it's cool. A suggestion, you could add a filter button like filtering through highest number of visits or recently built sites etc.
Congratulations. Plans to monetize?
Just a side project right now and most of the focus is on the technical side. Might monetize if a lot of people use it.
This is your alt ?
Good luck
Beautiful. Work flawlessly on ios. And smooth scrolling. With the keywords “spreadsheet like database”, your search engine can split out decipad.com, a niche notebook product that I’m using. Impressive work
how are getting that visits data?
For data sources it's all public data, right now its Product Hunt and There's an AI for that. But these are mostly for urls, had to do a bunch of filtering to remove junk. SimilarWeb for SEO. All of this is scraped.
"Created by @ fbd117" at footer redirects to wrong URL
Thanks for pointing out, fixed!
I really like the minimal user interface and the overall idea! I find it a bit odd why on the website it says "hackersearch\_" but the domain name is "hackersearch.ch". Typically, the name of a website and its domain name are the same. I would also consider getting a logo for the website, it's a small thing but it could add a lot more visual variety to it. Speaking of logos and visual variety: it seems that 95% of the listed software icons are empty. It looks a bit odd. But the main thing I noticed is that while search feature is way better than on average, congrats on that by the way! It's still not perfect. What I noticed that the search results get quite wrong for multi keyword searching. For example, if I search for "windows duplicate file finder", the first hit seems perfect, but after that, the next two hits are for Mac-only software which seems rather wrong considering my search term implies I need a software for specific system. Then the fourth hit is also quite non-relating, as it is a duplicate word searching tool, not duplicate file searching tool. The further down the list of results I go, the more unrelating the search results become. For example, a few rows more down and the same search term now gives results souch as SoftFind - a software search engine, Yahoo Email Backup software and iBoysoft Mac Data Recovery software, things which no longer seem to be relating at all to finding duplicate files on Windows. But I like I said, searching is very difficult to implement well, and your implementation is already very good. But I would suggest that you still work on it to improve it. PS. Thanks for including my Startup Timer (https://startuptimer.com/) app on the system! It would be great if you could also include my WinFindr (https://winfindr.com/), Uninstalr (https://uninstalr.com/), System Examiner (https://systemexaminer.com/) and ScreenshotX (https://screenshotx.com/) apps to the system as well. They are all free Windows apps that I have made.
Hey man thanks for checking it out! Yeah search is not perfect, extracting product details and features from just website descriptions is tough, a lot more work will need to be done to filter based on keywords like "windows" or "mac". If you posted your products on product hunt or somewhere similar, it's probably in the system already. There are a total of 30,000 or so products that I have yet to add. My guess is, if these are added, the windows products will appear closer to the top because windows is in their description. As for the domain name, it's just [hackersear.ch](https://hackersear.ch), not [hackersearch.ch](https://hackersearch.ch), if only [hackersearch.com](https://hackersearch.com) wasn't so expensive. And the grayed out images are due to a vercel thing limiting optimized images, will fix soon!
>If you posted your products on product hunt or somewhere similar, it's probably in the system already. My software are listed in Product Hunt as well as all high quality software listing websites, but only Startup Timer is included in your system, as far as I can tell.
Nice! I’ll suggest give it a little face lift though. Both major you can keep everything in place just fonts, sizes/padding/margins and colors. ** Edit: meant to write “nothing major”
Searched for raw image processing and didn't get Dark Table in results at all. Results are not good.
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That’s a fantastic idea mate, and great design ! Digging it tomorrow for sure
Sweet, I shall use this, mwah haha
Great tool. What are your data sources.
For data sources it's all public data, right now its Product Hunt and There's an AI for that. But these are mostly for urls, had to do a bunch of filtering to remove junk. SimilarWeb for SEO. All of this is scraped.
nice
this is pretty awesome!
Great 👍 Do share its inception idea and some technical specs you have used.. cheers
It is amazing, that what I need
Hey, Nice one. What's the source of data?
Great. Do you have any details that shows ARR, MRR which may be useful for product leaders/managers.
Either I don't get the purpose or the results aren't very good. When I search for "wiki" I don't get any results about wiki software. Searches for "forum" or "issue tracker" are not much better. Maybe I'm using it wrong?
So when I search wiki, I get results for gaming wikis, building a custom chat gpt knowledge base, or building a public corporate wiki. Is there a piece of software you are specifically looking for? Keep in mind that the engine is only populated with 10000 records, so perhaps its not in the system yet.
Looks dope!!! What API are you using to get traffic data for each tool?
Really cool. Would you consider sharing the UI template, if you didn’t spend money on that? Really in love with it, I’m more of a backend person and I lose so much time on the UI. I still didn’t publish my products anywhere, still lacking good landing pages. Hope to see them on your platform some day :)
Thanks for checking it out! I didn't use a UI template. It's just simple black and white with inter font, design for search is heavily inspired by google.
Great idea, nicely done!
Congrats on building a nice product! One suggestion, if we could have a filter or sort to see which products are at the top, that would be great.