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Phind is a GPT powered search engine optimized for developers / technical documentation. It searches the web and tries to aggregate results from multiple web sites. Although there are instances where it references outdated versions of libraries, on balance, it significantly reduced my time spent on technical research.

https://www.phind.com/

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For me, the beauty of Phind is that it will wade through the ad ridden web 3.0 hellscape to get an answer for me in plain text. I am not sure exactly how much of that process is to do with the language model per se. Probably basic vector store distance measures and traditional indexing paired with text extraction would do the job "just as well". I don't really need the natural language spin on top (I think).

+10 for phind. It's the only GPT tool I find that works well - for me currently.

I wish Phind would "autoGPT" a bit more, though. It often feels like Phind just grabs the top X results and makes a reply from those. If i was searching and those results came up i'd often skip them.

Strangely i use ChatGPT4 every day but am using Phind less and less. When i have something to search the web for, Kagi is faster for me. When i want to search GPT4 (thoughts/whatever) ChatGPT is faster for me. Phind is cool, but kinda feeling like the worse version of each.. if that makes sense.

It doesn't just pick the top result though. I was given an answer from SO that wasn't the top voted and not the "approved" answer, either. But it was, imo, the best answer it could've given me. I was pleasantly surprised.

Yeah, Phind has replaced Google for half of my searches. My only small complaint is reliability — occasionally I get “inference service not available” (paraphrased) and have to regenerate once or more.

Yeah Phind is the only AI service I use on a daily basis. Plus, free access to GPT-4 in answers is a bonus. They really nailed the experience

I love phind, but also like codeium and genie vscode plugins, really the tools I use the most. Sometimes I go back to GPT4 though.

I've used it many times for things that aren't technical. It's fantastic. I love that it provides references.

link to the docs and tell it, it's wrong about version, or ask for the features of something like nextjs 3.4 and it'll refresh it's context and give much better results. I don't know what their secret sauce is but it blows bing out of the water.

I was instantly a big believer in Phind.

It has replaced 95% of my previous DuckDuckGo searches for development info.

I even used it with another developer to solve a mission critical bug based on some very vague symptoms. It's saved so much time, I'll never go back.

Phind is one of the stickiest apps I’ve ever used, reminds me of when I first used Google Images… now I use it constantly

It also seems much more useful than ChatGPT or StackOverflow by themselves

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