👋 Hey PH! We’re Michael and Justin, co-founders of Hello Cognition. Software engineering runs on ad-hoc know-hows - the most valuable information is either in technical documentation or scattered around discussion boards and blogs. Google is too broad and shallow of a search tool to be great at suggesting actionable technical solutions. Understanding information about a complex technical problem still involves a lot of manual time and effort. Hello is a search engine that extracts understanding + code examples from technical sources, bringing you information you can immediately act upon to make progress on the problem you’re working on. Hello is smart enough to generate a customized, simple explanation for just about any question, a breakthrough in AI/NLP-powered question answering. We've believed since our NLP research days at UT Austin that searching should be just like talking to a smart friend. We started Hello Cognition to scratch our own itch, but now we hope to improve the state of information retrieval for the greater developer community. We're looking forward to hearing your ideas, feedback, comments, and what would be helpful for you when navigating technical problems!

Congrats to the launch @michaelroyzen and @wayy! Hello is a great product trying to solve a real and painful problems for developers. I've been following this project and seen that the feedback from developers has been great.

I’ve seen You launch a dev search landing page a few weeks ago. But this feels less all encompassing and narrow vision on code and dev resources. I like it ❤️

Hi @michaelroyzen FYI the website is down. Seems a cool concept but nothing else to go of without a site

This is really cool. I think you should post some deep technical behind-the-scenes stuff to Hacker News, I feel this would do really well there. You should do a VSCode extension. The reason: this likely is better than Google in many cases for technical queries. But it's effort to go to a different place and search. So if the search was initiated from the editor it can become far more habit forming. Or do a browser extension which simply makes it so that when a user types "code: query" into the search bar it goes to your engine, with a button to 'fallback' to Google results instead. You've done the amazing near-impossible work - makes sense to do the trivial things to integrate it with people's workflow (in IDE or in the browser toolbar)

why not just use stackoverflow?

Great product, very useful for developers!