instant-apps vs pico-search

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instant-apps		pico-search
	Project
12	Mentions	2
93	Stars	15
-	Growth	-
8.9	Activity	8.3
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

instant-apps

Posts with mentions or reviews of instant-apps. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-31.

Google Timer Is Gone
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jul 2022

We are working to bring all these tools to your regular search engine, checkout https://felvin.com
Your Search Engine On Adrenaline
1 project | dev.to | 18 Apr 2022

We can build instant apps for all kinds of use cases like dictionary, checking football scores, stock prices or notes from your notion or even search history from company slack or anything! Try them out live - felvin
Chrome Extension to enhance google search for programmers
1 project | /r/google | 31 Mar 2022

Thanks for comment u/BosphoramusAnyway you think we can elevate your concern about being a spyware? All the apps served through our extension are open-source at this point https://github.com/felvin-search/instant-apps
Felvin: Google Search Enhancer for Developers
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2022

The creator here, by using the Felvin chrome extension you can not only find the code snippets for popular queries but also access many popular developer utilities like timestamp convertors, csv to json and much more right inside the google search page.
Best part, all instant apps used in the extension are open source, so any missing functionality is only a PR away. Checkout the GitHub repository https://github.com/felvin-search/instant-apps
Brave Search Replaces Google as Default Search Engine in the Brave Browser
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2021

https://felvin.com/ is trying to build "Search profiles", but it's still quite early.
GitHub – felvin-search/instant-apps: Your search box is now an app store
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2021
Felvin Instant Apps @ Hactoberfest 🎉
1 project | /r/hacktoberfest | 6 Oct 2021

Hope you are enjoying #Hacktoberfest! We've already started to receive some great PRs from the community. We still have 40 something issues for you to get started with! Check out https://github.com/felvin-search/instant-apps
Learn frontend by creating small web apps!
1 project | /r/Frontend | 6 Oct 2021

JSON format (website, code)
GitHub - felvin-search/instant-apps: Your search box is now an app store! 🎉
2 projects | /r/coolgithubprojects | 6 Oct 2021

Hey, thank you for asking! They are primarily available on felvin.com (which is another search engine) e.g. https://felvin.com/search?q=flappy%20bird
Learn javascript by creating small web apps!
1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 6 Oct 2021

Flappy Bird (website, code)

pico-search

Posts with mentions or reviews of pico-search. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

A pico sized typo-tolerant word matching library
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2023
Show HN: A lightweight typo-tolerant word matching library
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing instant-apps and pico-search you can also consider the following projects:

whoogle-search - A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine

code-search - Code Search in natural language for React codebases [JS/TS]. Provided by Wizi AI.

node-safe - 🤠 Make using Node.js safe again with Deno-like permissions

vscode-react-javascript-snippets - Extension for React/Javascript snippets with search supporting ES7+ and babel features

brave-browser - Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

searchkit - Search UI for Elasticsearch & Opensearch. Compatible with Algolia's Instantsearch and Autocomplete components. React & Vue support

CyberChef - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis

orama - 🌌 Fast, dependency-free, full-text and vector search engine with typo tolerance, filters, facets, stemming, and more. Works with any JavaScript runtime, browser, server, service!

MenubarCountdown - Menubar countdown timer for macOS

docsearch - :blue_book: The easiest way to add search to your documentation.

figlet-timer - Minut timer with figlet output

router - 🤖 Fully typesafe Router for React (and friends) w/ built-in caching, 1st class search-param APIs, client-side cache integration and isomorphic rendering.