phind
A search engine optimized for developers and technical questions
Phind is an intelligent assistant and a search engine for programmers. With Phind, you’ll get the answer you’re looking for in seconds instead of hours.
The service will guide you step-by-step from that idea in your head to a working app. Phind is smart enough to proactively ask you questions to clarify its assumptions and to browse the web (or your codebase) when it needs additional context.
You can customize search results to, for instance, prioritize results from GitHub or some other website or repository. Then, after some time, you can go through your search/conversation history to go back to any thread you want.
Also, after some time, you’ll want to be even faster and start using Phind’s search shortcuts that will let you easily search on different sites by adding bang shortcuts to your query. For example, you can add “!g” or “!d” shortcuts to quickly use Google or DuckDuckGo.
Phind doesn’t have a mobile app, but it offers progressive web app support — allowing you to add it to your home screen and use it as a native app.
Finally, you’ll want to check out Phind’s extension for Visual Studio Code, which will let you code that much faster.
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What are the key features? ✨
- Customizable search results: You can artificially change how results are ranked by adding domain names and keywords to the list. For instance, you can set the rule to prioritize results from "github.com."
- Conversation history: See your conversation history and then click on any of the threads to go back to that thread.
- Search shortcuts: You can easily search on different sites by adding bang shortcuts to your query. For example, you can add "!g" or "!d" shortcuts to quickly use Google or DuckDuckGo.
- Works on mobile: While Phind lacks a native mobile app, it offers progressive web app support. This, in turn, lets you add Phind.com to your home screen and use it as a native app.
- VS Code extension: There is the Phind extension for Visual Studio Code that lets you code faster with AI.
Who is it for? 🤔
Examples of what you can use it for 💡
- Get answers to your coding questions
- Find code snippets you could use in your apps
- Get solutions for your coding problems
- Code faster with your very own AI assistant
Pros & Cons ⚖️
- Could be the best search engine for developers
- Provides solutions to all kinds of coding problems
- VS Code extension is particularly handy
- The free plan is limited
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