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Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place
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
- colesantiago 1y agoIt would be great if you can add RSS on this.
- indiehackerman 1y agoAdding to the list!
- plucafs 1y agoI'd suggest to add the Riot Games tech blog (https://technology.riotgames.com https://technology.riotgames.com)
- indiehackerman 1y agoAdding to the list!
- sontek 1y agoThey haven't posted since February of 2024, seems inactive?
- whattheheckheck 1y agoI get an ssl error
- indiehackerman 1y agoCan you try again? Seems to be working for others
- shelika 1y agoBiased as I work for them but I think https://incident.io/blog/engineering https://incident.io/blog/engineering is definitely worth adding.
- indiehackerman 1y agoAdding to the list!
- kushan2020 1y agoThe performance is really slow on my phone - iPhone XR. Even selecting filters takes away lot of time.
- indiehackerman 1y agoMade some performance improvements, hope it's better for you now!
- Catbert59 1y agoFirst thing I saw was an annoying Cloudflare captcha.. ugh
- gricardo99 1y agonice concept. fyi, search feature doesn’t seem to work
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for your support! Search should be fixed now
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- dbgrman 1y agonone of the filters seem to work for me. Good concept. Wish it wasn't in the done-to-death vibe coding UI.
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for the feedback! Have made fixes to the filters so please try again
- coldtrait 1y agoWhat is a more standard UI that doesn't scream vibe coded?
- __natty__ 1y agoI 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 1y agoI read them especially when I'm picking up a new task at my job with new technologies
- dwedge 1y agoI 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 1y agoThanks for the feedback! Search should be better now
- netloks9599 1y agoI think you might want to add a "debounce" to the search, typing more than a few characters at a time automatically kicks off a new request for the entire page
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for the suggestion, added!
- freetonik 1y agoShameless 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/ https://minifeed.net/ 2. https://minifeed.net/items/n1HZYMDEKyra https://minifeed.net/items/n1HZYMDEKyra
- victorbjorklund 1y agoCan we add / suggests sites?
- freetonik 1y agoSure, here: https://minifeed.net/suggest https://minifeed.net/suggest
- jpmonette 1y agoLooks really nice! Any plan to add social aspect like comments, likes and such?
- freetonik 1y agoThought about it, but not sure yet. Not too many user yet for that sort of thing.
- OisinMoran 1y agoI'm building something similar with a bit more of a social angle (has comments, likes, and reposts) at lynkmi.com. If you sign up to the waitlist it's a very very short wait!
- jpmonette 1y agowill have a look!
- rkj93 1y ago
- DiabloD3 1y agoAlready hug of death?
- indiehackerman 1y agoBack up now
- ozgrakkurt 1y agoAmazing idea but Cloudflare DDOSes my browser when I try to open it. Also a nice reminder to move my website off of cloudflare asap
- jagged-chisel 1y agoMaybe I’m a bit out of the loop on Cloudflare’s activity these days, but I’m not sure I understand your statement. Cloudflare thinks your browser is part of a DDoS? Cloudflare is attacking your browser from several places across the internet?
- 8organicbits 1y agoMy guess is that this refers to the CPU challenge. Presumably DDoS here should be DoS, specifically overwhelming their CPU or draining their battery. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/278660/why-are-some-cloudflare-challenges-cpu-intensive https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/278660/why-are-...
- ozgrakkurt 1y agoOn my phone, it locks up my browser with it’s “check” so I have to restart it. I understand it isn’t related to DDOS but used it as a joke since it is basically attacking my browser
- pbronez 1y agoCool idea. I thought I’d try to make a Kagi Lens to accomplish the same thing: https://kagi.com/lenses/LdYine8hZtYmrt8yTMngOUtvTM9rmkRy 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://stripe.com/blog/engineering, https://engineering.fb.com/ https://engineering.fb.com/, https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/engineering/ https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/engineering/, https://netflixtechblog.com/ https://netflixtechblog.com/, https://research.google/blog/ https://research.google/blog/, https://technology.riotgames.com/ https://technology.riotgames.com/, https://incident.io/blog https://incident.io/blog, https://www.anthropic.com/engineering https://www.anthropic.com/engineering, https://openai.com/news/ https://openai.com/news/, https://shopify.engineering/ https://shopify.engineering/
- pbronez 1y agoWhen 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)
- jzig 1y agoNow make a lens of lenses!
- __turbobrew__ 1y agoNo 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.
- angelmm 1y agoI 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/ https://fly.io/blog/
- indiehackerman 1y agoAdding to the list!
- indiehackerman 1y agoAdded: https://engineering.fyi/company/fly https://engineering.fyi/company/fly
- kwakubiney 1y agoNice project. Filtering took forever though.
- indiehackerman 1y agoHave made improvements to the filters! Hope you get a better experience now
- ayerajath 1y agothis is good! will revisit soon!
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for your support!
- majom 1y agoGreat start. I would be great to see more blogs added to your project.
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for your support! Will definitely be adding plenty more this week
- zX41ZdbW 1y agoOnly 16 companies - quite sparse. May I ask to add my blog if possible? https://clickhouse.com/blog?category=engineering https://clickhouse.com/blog?category=engineering
- indiehackerman 1y agoJust getting started but will definitely add to the list!
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- WASDx 1y agoFYI here is a list of hundreds of engineering blogs: https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks! 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
- 8organicbits 1y agoI'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/ https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/blogrolls/
- indiehackerman 1y agoAwesome, thanks!
- aeve890 1y ago>Engineering Looks inside >15 tech companies blogs
- indiehackerman 1y agoGotta start somewhere :)
- xyst 1y agoAI-grifters: "why bother using yet another search engine? In a few weeks {{preferred LLM}} will be trained on the underlying data"
- 8organicbits 1y 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 1y agoI started off with scraping through RSS but quickly realised it doesn't include all historical posts
- lysecret 1y agoAre you using ai for the parsing/setting up the parsing structure?
- Quitschquat 1y agoIt would be cool to filter out the AI/LLM stuff
- indiehackerman 1y agoWill add that to the list, thanks for the suggestion
- mmargenot 1y agoAre you trying to stick with company blogs primarily, or to expand into general non-affiliated eng blogs? People like Maggie Appleton (https://maggieappleton.com/ https://maggieappleton.com/) and Patrick McKenzie (https://www.kalzumeus.com/ 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.
- indiehackerman 1y agoGreat suggestions, I'm a big fan of Patrick McKenzie as well. I was going to start with company blogs but expand to individuals as well if there's enough demand/usage
- mmargenot 1y agoYeah, it's one of those things where it's very reasonable to draw a line between company and individual blogs and keep it to one or the other. In any case, I know there are some other solid individual blog collections in the comments - good luck with feature addition.
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for your support!
- kathir05 1y agoThis is interesting stuff!! Love to see further updates and scale on this
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for your support! Stay tuned for more updates
- kenanfyi 1y agoLooks 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.
- mrugge 1y agothe engineering that pays (big bucks)
- kawfey 1y agoidk, hardware engineering (whether electrical, mechanical, civil, aerospace, etc) is just as lucrative and IMO more interesting, since physics isn't an invention of the human mind like software is, and mistakes go boom instead of segfault.
- kenanfyi 1y agoAs an hardware engineer, I can't say if it's more interesting or not, but definitely a different mindset and tempo you have during development. Things are not running in a sandboxed environment where you can iterate theoretically endless times.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoGreat idea and the post preview cards are excellent. I've found software security companies tend to have interesting blog posts.
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for your support and the great suggestion!
- fuzball1989 1y agoAre 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.
- indiehackerman 1y agoI think people would get less value if I kept it to 10-20. I was thinking of extending it to have user accounts were people could create their own lists of the articles (based on company, author, tags, etc) on there if there was enough interest
- yieldcrv 1y agoThanks for having a default feed to show an example of what to expect So many show and tells neglect that
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for your support and glad you liked it :)
- meander_water 1y agoThere's a good list here which you could add as well https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks! 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
- bkhl 1y ago> 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
- indiehackerman 1y agoGlad to hear it'd be useful for you :)
- gombosg 1y agoI kind of miss the RSS days when you just had your own news/blog aggregator without the annoyance of Substack, Medium or anything else.
- dewey 1y agoLess people are blogging these days but there's still a lot of interesting blogs out there. It's even more self-selected than before but I almost always find a RSS feed for a blog that I think is useful and interesting.
- rambambram 1y agoDon't act like RSS is done with. It's twenty plus years old, and still going strong. Nobody is stopping you from using it, whether you only read or also post. Hyped up tech is like milk, it stinks after a couple of days. Open protocols are like fine wine, they age beautifully. P.S. Your site is offline. If it wasn't and you even had one interesting article, I would have added your website to my list of feeds. I picked up hundreds of interesting websites/feeds through HN alone in the last years.
- ctxc 1y agoDamn, if I knew I'd get one person to read what I write I'd have added RSS :P
- dgs_sgd 1y agoAwesome work! I would suggest adding Netflix’s blog [1]. It’s very high quality imo. [1] https://netflixtechblog.com/ https://netflixtechblog.com/
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for your support! Have added Netflix: https://engineering.fyi/company/netflix https://engineering.fyi/company/netflix
- brikym 1y agoI can't say I like the infinite scrolling and lack of body scroll bar.
- ndom91 1y agoNice one! You should definitely offer some sort of master rss feed though
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for your support! Will add that to the list
- demarq 1y ago> 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.
- farai89 1y agoThis is great. Would be good if you add RAMP also, have found the engineering blog useful. https://engineering.ramp.com/ https://engineering.ramp.com/
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for your support! Added to the list
- sontek 1y agoThere doesn't seem to be an RSS feed on there
- indiehackerman 1y agoAdded to the site: https://engineering.fyi/company/ramp https://engineering.fyi/company/ramp
- skhameneh 1y agoCan 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.
- tamimio 1y agoI 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.
- xyzzy_plugh 1y agoI have no idea how you can dismiss P.Eng as being meaningless. Engineer, yes, certainly overloaded. But P.Eng? It literally implies licensure. That's the industry standard. My GP and my veterinarian and also my librarian are all doctors, but less ambiguously they are respectively MD, DVM and PhD.
- tamimio 1y agoI am not the one who's dismissing it, industry does. You can get hired as an engineer, holding an engineering title with zero engineering education nowadays, you can have senior or principal title as well, and no formal education either. Find me one hospital that would hire a nurse that never had formal education or went through acquiring the proper license? No wonder a doctor can earn 4 times more than an engineer nowadays.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- matkurianski 1y agoI always wanted something like that. Awesome job!
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for your support! Glad I could help build it for you :)
- ordinarily 1y agoThis is awesome! We got some really technical deep dives here https://www.warpstream.com/blog-category/engineering https://www.warpstream.com/blog-category/engineering
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for the support, will add to the list!
- anonymous344 1y agoorder by latest?
- idosh 1y agoShameless plug, you can find all of them and many more on https://daily.dev/ https://daily.dev/. It's a personalized aggregator for developer news
- grub5000 1y agoI can't figure this one out - is it only a browser extension? The site keeps trying to trick me into installing a browser extension, which seems incredibly sketchy
- idosh 1y agoyou can go directly to our webapp https://app.daily.dev https://app.daily.dev. Btw, the extension is open source so you can see nothing is sketchy: https://github.com/dailydotdev/apps/ https://github.com/dailydotdev/apps/
- chandu_vrs 1y agoNice 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)
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for the support and suggestion!
- LtdJorge 1y agoShould definitely be able to filter out any of the sources. Unless that's already there and I'm not seeing it.
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for the suggestion
- skyzouwdev 1y ago[dead]
- FailureCrown 1y agoI can't find tags for C#, asp.Net
- g8oz 1y agoI would add: - Instacart - Temporal - Pinterest - Etsy - Atlassian
- indiehackerman 1y agoThanks for the suggestions
- penguin202 1y agoI'll be building a MCP for this
- marit77 1y agoWould it be possible to add the JetBrains blog? https://blog.jetbrains.com/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/
- bilguudeiblgd 1y agoIt'd be nice if there' some kind of relevancy, or hottest* articles filters.
- maskeen 1y ago[dead]
- raktims 1y ago[dead]
- SushiMon 1y agoFeature request -- allow users to add RSS feeds of blogs they want to follow, allow filtering by date
- mustaphah 1y agoIt would be awesome to have a newsletter highlighting the top X articles (fully automated). You could start with a simple scoring system (page views) and maybe later add an upvote button so the most-voted articles get sent out each week. Sending emails isn't cost-free, but AFAIK, Buttondown [1] has a free plan for up to 100 subscribers. It's dead simple: they provide an issue archive [2] and handle subscription for you [3]. With their 100-subscriber free plan, you could limit this feature to a close circle. Maybe later monetize the newsletter feature to cover the ESP costs. [1] https://buttondown.com https://buttondown.com [2] https://buttondown.com/hacker-newsletter/archive https://buttondown.com/hacker-newsletter/archive [3] https://buttondown.com/hacker-newsletter https://buttondown.com/hacker-newsletter