Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place
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·August 10, 2025freetonik
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].
jpmonette
Looks really nice! Any plan to add social aspect like comments, likes and such?
OisinMoran
I'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!
freetonik
Thought about it, but not sure yet. Not too many user yet for that sort of thing.
rkj93
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gombosg
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.
bkhl
> 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
meander_water
There's a good list here which you could add as well https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
zX41ZdbW
Only 16 companies - quite sparse. May I ask to add my blog if possible? https://clickhouse.com/blog?category=engineering
indiehackerman
Just getting started but will definitely add to the list!
kenanfyi
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.
mrugge
the engineering that pays (big bucks)
angelmm
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.
indiehackerman
Adding to the list!
mmargenot
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.
plucafs
I'd suggest to add the Riot Games tech blog (https://technology.riotgames.com)
indiehackerman
Adding to the list!
fuzball1989
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.
ozgrakkurt
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
jagged-chisel
Maybe 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
My 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-...
8organicbits
> 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
I started off with scraping through RSS but quickly realised it doesn't include all historical posts
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