I built haystack - natural language search engine for workplace technical knowledge.

I've been a software engineer for a few years now,

A few weeks ago I was scrolling through confluence pages trying to find ssh connection details to our jenkins second integration machine for 40 minutes straight, later I discovered my co-worker slack'ed me the ssh connection string *two months ago*.

A week later I started working on haystack - a search engine for workplace apps.. It enables you to search slack, confluence, jira, teams, sharepoint, github, and email in one place.

It supports natural language queries so a query like: "how to connect to integ2 machine?" yields:

  ssh -i private.pem ubuntu@ec2-integration2.eu-est-1.compute.amazonaws.com

Privacy?

haystack is self hosted and stores user data locally, it has a completely client-side version, and a a self-hosted docker container version - only you have access to internal docs, I didn't want to deal with security compliance headaches caused from storing user data in the cloud + I don’t want your internal docs/messages.

Rolled it out to my co-workers a week ago and they thought it's a hit, so I'm planning on releasing it publicly on March 2023.

*Early access*

More technical details are available on github, code released on March 23’:

<https://github.com/haystackoss/haystack>

If you want to try it out before March 2023 - Available here <https://haystack.it>

Sure, read docs.nabaz.io (CI solution w/ storage over mongodb)

You aren't interrupted, you choose when to alt+tab to see your test results.

Main difference is that crystalball still runs all the tests, but runs the recently failed ones first.

Nabaz selects a small subset of affected tests, reducing CPU usage, and more importantly improving speed drastically!

Right.. Because out of a 100 tests it will run close to that number. when you change code most of the time only a handful of tests or less need to run.

Not bulletproof, but a-ok if your running a full run just before the commit.

Toda ;)

collab w/ me ;)

Not only the time to boot, but also if you don’t run tests selectively, you’re already too slow.