splitter VS duckduckbang

We've been building devtools for years now. We're really passionate about the field. The most recent thing we built is https://usedevbook.com. The goal was to build a simple framework/UI for companies to demo their APIs. Something like https://gradio.app but for API companies. It's been used for example by Prisma - we helped them build their playground with it - https://playground.prisma.io/

Our new project - e2b - is using some of the technology we built for Devbook in the past. Specifically the secure sandbox environments where the AI agents run are our custom Firecracker VMs that we run on Nomad.

You can follow my co-founder, me, and the project on Twitter:

- https://twitter.com/e2b_dev

- https://twitter.com/t_valenta

- https://twitter.com/mlejva

And we have a community Discord server - https://discord.gg/U7KEcGErtQ

Hey, thanks! Not the whole website but parts of it like our SDK for creating VMs on demand and some UI components are open sourced.

we've built this interactive playground of Prisma examples as a showcase of developer hubs made with Devbook. The goal of Devbook si to allow devtools projects and companies to showcase their tool in an interactive without any hassle for the devs. Everything is prepared and configured for you.

The goal of Devbook si to allow devtools projects and companies to showcase their tool in an interactive without any hassle for the devs. Everything is prepared and configured for you.

Every code snippet is runnable and editable. You get your own database thanks to CockroachDB. The code runs in a microVM (Firecracker) that's just for you. You also have an access to the terminal and even Prisma Studio. Go ahead and play with it!

I would love to hear your feedback and I'm happy to hang out and answer any questions!

[0] https://usedevbook.com

This is really really exciting! I hope it enables more product built on top of full VMs with fast UX/DX.

I just wish I knew about this earlier because from what I read, I think we at Devbook [1] built pretty similar service for our product. We are using Docker to "describe" the VM's environment, our booting times are in the similar numbers, we are using Nomad for orchestration, and we are also using Firecracker :). We basically built are own serverless platform. I need to compare our current pricing to Fly's.

[1] https://usedevbook.com

I found DevBook which is quite useful. It doesn't solve the searching issue but it cuts down on the results you get back. Not sure if it'd be useful for you or anyone scouring the comments

Not trying to undermine op here but I've recently been using a tool called Devbooks and it's really cool. It's not a vscode extension though. It lets you search stack overflow and almost any language's/library's documentation without leaving your current window.

I recommend creating a new email account solely dedicated to your journey into coding. I also recommend getting comfortable with MDN Web Docs, Stack Overflow and this nifty software called Devbook will help. (I just hit alt+space and a search engine to stack overflow pops up).

A lot of the snooping does have an actual role with search - they need to guess the intended domain of the query [1]

Welcome to my side project, a better organized directory of domain specific search engines, based on duckduckgo !bang operators https://github.com/MoserMichael/duckduckbang/blob/master/REA...

Ideally this directory/thesaurus should help you to find a domain specific search engine, without the need of snooping on the part of the search engine. I also auto translated this directory into several languages.

[1] of course they also need the snooping for targeted advertising, but that's a different story!)

I have a catalog of duckduckgo !bang operators; a script is using google translate to translate the UI and site descriptions into several languages; it is better than nothing, but it is not an ideal solution.

https://github.com/MoserMichael/duckduckbang/blob/master/REA...

I didn't manage to automate the use of DeepL in python;

I think that specialised search engines are gaining ground, it has become easier to set one up, thanks to elasticsearch/lucene. They can be quite good, for a limited domain, and they don't have to invade your privacy in order to find out what you are looking for. I think that what is missing are tools like this, that would aid the discovery and use of these search engines. I hope that this will allow them to eat into the market from the 'low end'.

The projects source is here: https://github.com/mosermichael/duckduckbang

Unfortunately they don't invest too much into !bang operators at duckduckgo, however that's my input data...

taking care of google ;-) I have a catalog of duckduckgo !bang operators https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html - i hope that it allows for better discoverability of specialized search engines. The latest feature added is a description for each search engine, just hover over the name, and you get a description derived from the sites meta and title tags.

I think that specialised search engines are gaining ground, it has become easier to set one up, thanks to elasticsearch/lucene. They can be quite good, for a limited domain, and they don't have to invade your privacy in order to find out what you are looking for. I think that what is missing are tools like this, that would aid the discovery of such search engines.

The project source is here: https://github.com/mosermichael/duckduckbang