Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place

158 indiehackerman 53 8/10/2025, 1:44:05 PM engineering.fyi ↗
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

Comments (53)

mmargenot · 13m ago
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.
freetonik · 3h ago
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

jpmonette · 1h ago
Looks really nice! Any plan to add social aspect like comments, likes and such?
victorbjorklund · 2h ago
Can we add / suggests sites?
freetonik · 2h ago
zX41ZdbW · 2h ago
Only 16 companies - quite sparse. May I ask to add my blog if possible? https://clickhouse.com/blog?category=engineering
indiehackerman · 2h ago
Just getting started but will definitely add to the list!
angelmm · 3h ago
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 · 2h ago
Adding to the list!
8organicbits · 1h ago
> 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.

indiehackerman · 1h ago
I started off with scraping through RSS but quickly realised it doesn't include all historical posts
plucafs · 3h ago
I'd suggest to add the Riot Games tech blog (https://technology.riotgames.com)
indiehackerman · 2h ago
Adding to the list!
ozgrakkurt · 3h ago
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

Quitschquat · 48m ago
It would be cool to filter out the AI/LLM stuff
indiehackerman · 42m ago
Will add that to the list, thanks for the suggestion
WASDx · 2h ago
FYI here is a list of hundreds of engineering blogs: https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
8organicbits · 1h ago
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 · 1h ago
Awesome, thanks!
indiehackerman · 2h ago
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
Catbert59 · 3h ago
First thing I saw was an annoying Cloudflare captcha.. ugh
shelika · 3h ago
Biased as I work for them but I think https://incident.io/blog/engineering is definitely worth adding.
indiehackerman · 2h ago
Adding to the list!
__natty__ · 3h ago
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 · 2h ago
I read them especially when I'm picking up a new task at my job with new technologies
kushan2020 · 3h ago
The performance is really slow on my phone - iPhone XR. Even selecting filters takes away lot of time.
indiehackerman · 2h ago
Made some performance improvements, hope it's better for you now!
majom · 3h ago
Great start. I would be great to see more blogs added to your project.
indiehackerman · 2h ago
Thanks for your support! Will definitely be adding plenty more this week
colesantiago · 4h ago
It would be great if you can add RSS on this.
indiehackerman · 2h ago
Adding to the list!
DiabloD3 · 3h ago
Already hug of death?
indiehackerman · 2h ago
Back up now
dwedge · 3h ago
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 · 2h ago
Thanks for the feedback! Search should be better now
kwakubiney · 3h ago
Nice project. Filtering took forever though.
indiehackerman · 2h ago
Have made improvements to the filters! Hope you get a better experience now
aeve890 · 2h ago
>Engineering

Looks inside

>15 tech companies blogs

indiehackerman · 2h ago
Gotta start somewhere :)
dbgrman · 3h ago
none of the filters seem to work for me. Good concept. Wish it wasn't in the done-to-death vibe coding UI.
coldtrait · 1h ago
What is a more standard UI that doesn't scream vibe coded?
indiehackerman · 2h ago
Thanks for the feedback! Have made fixes to the filters so please try again
pbronez · 3h ago
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/

__turbobrew__ · 1h ago
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.
jzig · 1h ago
Now make a lens of lenses!
pbronez · 3h ago
When I use this lens to search for “Python” the top three hits are:

Meta’s Pyrefly announcement (may 2025)

Netflix post about their overall use of python (March 2013)

Google’s announcement of the Croissant ML metadata format (March 2024)

gricardo99 · 3h ago
nice concept. fyi, search feature doesn’t seem to work
indiehackerman · 2h ago
Thanks for your support! Search should be fixed now
whattheheckheck · 3h ago
I get an ssl error
indiehackerman · 2h ago
Can you try again? Seems to be working for others
ayerajath · 3h ago
this is good! will revisit soon!
indiehackerman · 2h ago
Thanks for your support!
xyst · 1h ago
AI-grifters: "why bother using yet another search engine? In a few weeks {{preferred LLM}} will be trained on the underlying data"