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Sourcegraph raised a $23M Series B

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Sourcegraph CEO here. Thank you for posting this. We are on a mission to bring Universal Code Search to every company to help you explore, navigate, and better understand all your code. Check out https://about.sourcegraph.com/ for some very well-known companies already using Sourcegraph heavily.

And use our `docker run` 1-liner to run Sourcegraph self-hosted: https://docs.sourcegraph.com/. You can get great code search on your own code (on your own infra, without sending any code off-network) very quickly.

We will be using the $23M Series B funding to make our code search even more universal: more integrations into the code hosts, editors, and other dev tools you use; deeper language coverage; and many more things to search and fix (including code review comments, dependencies, etc.). Our vision is that you have one search box to find and fix anything in your code, and you use this 20x/day or more. Join our quickly growing all-remote team (https://about.sourcegraph.com/jobs/) if this excites you! We work in the open, so check out https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph and https://about.sourcegraph.com/handbook to see what it's like being a Sourcegrapher.

Congrats!

Is there plan to improve the performance of the github integration? Really was slowed down because of the slowness...

Sorry you are seeing slowness on our GitHub integration (which adds hovers, go-to-definition, and find-references to GitHub code and PRs; see https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sourcegraph/dgjhfo...). We are not aware of any general issues there. Could you please file an issue at https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph and mention the repositories (if public) and languages where you're seeing slowness? We will look into it ASAP.

Congrats! When I left Google, code search was the one piece of the platform I missed the most. Now that my firm uses Sourcegraph, I don't miss it.

I've used sourcegraph quite a bit for my Haskell project. It absolutely changed the way I've browsed code on the web.

Also love their organization around a Master Plan: https://about.sourcegraph.com/plan You can tell they've been influenced by a certain Mafia..

Power to the Sourcegraph team.

Congrats on these major accomplishments.

Do you think your series B is just in time for the recession?

Any new innovative layers to augment the coding experience that you could reveal?

Autocomplete with super ML powers?

Thank you! Stay tuned for the things you mentioned. :) And yes, we are very happy to have raised this Series B now so that we can be a bastion of stability for our team and customers given the uncertainty out there.

Congrats! Sourcegraph has great code navigation and search.

We're also excited that they are open core: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18117755

BTW There is a spelling mistake in the title Sourcepgrah => Sourcegraph

Sourcegraph CEO here. Thanks for the kind words, GitLab CEO Sid! :)

We are very happy to have Sourcegraph deeply integrated with GitLab so you can get native code intelligence right in GitLab files and merge requests (https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/11/12/sourcegraph-code-in...).

(edit: Also, just emailed the HN mods to fix the typo in the title. Someone else posted it.)

Does Sourcegraph makes sense for smaller companies/companies with relatively fairly small codebase? As I'm working with 'not that big' projects that are primarily Java/Javascript/Typescript based it seems to me that the level of insight, easiness of navigation etc. is much greater when I just load a project into IntelliJ IDEA.

(Edit) I may see some pros with working side-by-side with our core review tool (Gerrit). E.g. you are reviewing some patchset, you want to check a usage of a particular method or class so you can switch to Sourcegraph to explore the codebase in a more sophisticated way that a 'dummy' repo browser would allow. If you don't have the project opened at that time in IDEA then maybe it could be something useful. But then Sourcegraph would need to understand/index/whatever 'magic' review branches in Gerrit.

Congrats on SourceGraph. Hoping to see more innovations you brought to code search area. For users wanting an integrated experience of code search, self-hosted git repositories, issues, and CI, here is another alternative:

https://github.com/theonedev/onedev.

Checkout the demo here:

https://code.onedev.io/projects/linux

Press 't' for quick symbol search, and 'v' for advanced search with regex support.

You may also hover mouse over a symbol to find its declarations and usages.

Congrats! I have told a lot of people about Sourcegraph and they all seem to see it as a viable alternative to their current code search and navigator. I wonder what the future of the product looks like. It is also one of my favorite open source projects to just browse through and understand the code base.

Thank you for spreading awareness of Sourcegraph!

For anyone else interested, our code is browsable and searchable at https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph (on Sourcegraph itself, naturally) and hosted at https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph.

If you want to hear about the future product roadmap, check out https://about.sourcegraph.com/handbook and/or join our open office hours Zoom call on Tue (https://info.sourcegraph.com/office-hours-march-17).

Looking forward to what future holds for you! The codebase is still pretty tough for me to understand given I am still a newbie, but I don't plan on stopping till I contribute to it.

Awesome. As you read our code, feel free to post a GitHub issue or tweet with any questions about why we did things in certain ways, etc.

Congratulations! Sourcegraph's search is very nice, though I feel its UI/UX limits it's true power.

Filters are organised horizontally, hard to scroll, hard to combine. The UI feels a little outdated as well. I'd love to see the usability improve.

Thank you for the feedback. I agree with you - we are working on it (and just hired a designer, among other things). We need to do much more to make it so every developer is using code search 20x/day.

Congrats :)

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