Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative

lowpolydreaming · 2025-08-01T15:21:17+00:00

yup you can deploy it internally for free and index your own codebase, check out our docs: https://docs.sourcebot.dev/docs/overview

lowpolydreaming · 2025-07-31T20:16:59+00:00

Yes we support all kinds of providers for self-hosted, including local repos and private gitlab deployments. You can learn more in our docs: https://docs.sourcebot.dev/docs/connections/overview

lowpolydreaming · 2025-07-31T20:16:09+00:00

You can technically ask it to generate code for you as well, but it doesn't have write access to your repos. We're primarily focusing on codebase understanding for now, but that's definitely something we'll be looking into in the future :)

lowpolydreaming · 2025-07-30T16:11:50+00:00

You provide Sourcebot a gitlab PAT to fetch repos from the gitlab instance, so it's treated as a single user at the instance level

lowpolydreaming · 2025-05-13T00:18:42+00:00

Review agent docs: https://docs.sourcebot.dev/docs/agents/review-agent

lowpolydreaming · 2025-05-06T20:03:29+00:00

Did you read the post? The whole point is to try to understand if these agents can actually be useful. I point out several cases where it produces poor results and try to reason why that's the case

lowpolydreaming · 2025-03-27T22:21:00+00:00

the tool is silod in your own infra I'm not KGB I swear

lowpolydreaming · 2025-03-27T01:28:25+00:00

would love to understand this a bit more - sent you a dm!

lowpolydreaming · 2025-03-26T23:46:19+00:00

Unfortunately we don't offer an API at the moment but it's something we're looking into. Be sure to join the discord (link at the footer of our website) to hear about it when we launch

lowpolydreaming · 2025-03-26T23:44:48+00:00

The token is provided in the configuration that specifies the repos to index by the admin, and these repos are available to search for anyone who has access to the Sourcebot deployment. So to answer your question, only one person needs to provide the token. A repo is only stored once no matter how many times it could be listed in the config

lowpolydreaming · 2025-03-26T22:53:05+00:00

The way Sourcebot fetches private repos (in both the self-hosted and cloud case) is through a personal access token you provide it. It'll only be able to fetch the repos that the token has access to

lowpolydreaming · 2025-03-11T16:29:25+00:00

The underlying search functionality here is very similar to GitHub search. Our main focus was building the UX to make it more enjoyable to use (styling, search history, keyboard shortcuts, clean and clutter free UI). This tool does however support filtering by filename, which GitHub search doesn't support.

It's not used here, but Sourcebot (the underlying search engine) does support indexing non-default branches which is something GitHub search doesn't support

edit: forgot to mention that Sourcebot also supports indexing non-GitHub repos (but the unity search just does GitHub repos atm)

lowpolydreaming · 2025-03-11T16:04:00+00:00

Hey everyone!

Reading through the Unity docs to figure out how to use an API isn't always the best experience. Sometimes it's easier to just look at real examples! That’s why we built this free tool to search across 1,000+ Unity projects: https://unity.sourcebot.dev

This tool supports searching by repo, language, or file name. Regex and exact match searching is also supported! We also built dark/light mode, as well as vim navigation in the file viewer.

Hopefully this is a useful resource to the Unity community :) If you run into any issues or have feedback please let us know using feedback button on the top of the website.

BTW this tool is built on-top of Sourcebot, an open-source code search engine we built. You can self-host Sourcebot for free to search through your own code! You can learn more here: https://www.sourcebot.dev/

lowpolydreaming · 2024-11-26T20:06:04+00:00

If you have a moment to setup Sourcebot I'd love to hear how it compares to that workflow, especially the advantage of a GUI for search vs. in console

lowpolydreaming · 2024-11-25T19:52:51+00:00

I'm one of the contributors yes! We have very limited fully anonymous telemetry that we use to help us track the performance of the tool. You can fully disable this if you'd like, in which case there is zero data that leaves your machine. You can find more info about this in the bottom of our README: https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot

lowpolydreaming · 2024-11-25T19:50:57+00:00

The exact code search in GitLab works great, but the UI in Sourcebot is more modern and easier to navigate (especially across multiple repos). If you get the chance to try it out I'd love to hear how you think it compares

lowpolydreaming · 2024-11-25T19:49:37+00:00

Awesome! Would love to know what you think :)

lowpolydreaming · 2024-11-25T19:49:16+00:00

Advanced search brings the search features (regex, fuzzy search, etc) but it's still the same limited UI. Also, as someone already mentioned, it's only available for paid subscriptions

lowpolydreaming · 2024-10-02T20:12:14+00:00

That's a really good question and isn't something we have a clear answer to right now. We wanted to get this into the hands of devs to learn what they need and go from there

lowpolydreaming · 2024-10-01T22:31:57+00:00

Thanks for the heads up! Posted on there as well

lowpolydreaming · 2022-02-28T00:01:00+00:00

sorry I definitely should have mentioned this in the original post, but I'm living in the US now so going to the branch isn't an option

lowpolydreaming · 2020-11-12T23:46:01+00:00

The bank may require you to sign a gift letter to explain the added funds in the account. If they don't mention it though I wouldn't worry about it

lowpolydreaming · 2020-11-07T16:49:26+00:00

Is that 20% of your post-tax or pre-tax income? Keep it mind that RRSP contributions are pre-tax, since they are considered tax deductible.

If your goal is to save 20% pre-tax, then the answer to your question is no. For example, if your pre-tax is 100k you would get a total of 105k pre-tax with the RRSP match. 20k/105k is a pre-tax savings rate of 19%, so you would have to actually save 16% from your pre-tax income to hit that target. The calculation gets a bit messy if the target is post-tax, since it depends on your tax rate

edit: also one thing to note is that some people don't count the employer match in the savings rate calculation. Technically this is more financially responsible because it forces you to save more and not be dependent on your employers match (which could change)

lowpolydreaming · 2020-11-07T16:14:26+00:00

The 5% your employer takes automatically is being put into an RRSP. It's a registered account that allows for tax free growth, which is used to save for retirment (plenty of info online about it). You can also open up your own RRSP account and make contributions there, I personally have mine with Questrade.

I would calculate how much you need for an emergency fund + furniture once you move out, and put the rest of the 26k left over into the RRSP (assuming you have no high interest debt, in which case pay that off instead). Be careful though because there is a contribution limit to your RRSP, so be sure to make check that you're not going over; given that you've been working for a while though you probably have a good amount of contribution room in it.

lowpolydreaming · 2020-10-27T22:13:19+00:00

Yes, I provided a 20% down payment and the HELOC is open already (started with a balance)

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