Show HN: Sidekick – Read the f***ing manual with ChatGPT

Hey everyone, we built this because we realized that open source projects have a LOT of people using it for free, and a LOT of documentation on how to use them. The problem is that people don’t bother to read the docs, and even when they do the search is often bad.

So we put all the docs for 18 popular projects in one place and let GPT search through them to answer questions.

It does a few things:

- takes all the .md files from a repo then chunks and indexes it and puts it in a vector store

- includes some prompt engineering to prevent hallucinated answers, using the new ChatGPT API

- gives back the answer if it finds one in the documentation, otherwise it justifies itself

Right now it can only help with questions that can be answered from the public docs on Github, but we’ve seen this scale really really well with more documentation, tutorials, and past issues/threads. Feeding it readmes barely scratches the surface, so if you have some docs you want to ask questions over put up a PR with the data and we’ll ingest it and make it queryable through this site!

Source: [https://github.com/ai-sidekick/sidekick/tree/main/client/sid...