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Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

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Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

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Post by toomuchtodo »

soohoonchoi wrote: post #16
sourabh03agr wrote: post #13

Congrats on the launch! Do you need Github permissions to answer questions on open-source repos as well?

There are about a hundred open source repos you can talk to for free over at https://app.greptile.com/repo , we are looking to add more repositories as well. The permissions we get on login are from the Github App flow, you will still have to grant Greptile access specific organization/repositories for it to work with your own private repos.

Best way to get in touch if a maintainer who wants to provide public repo access?

Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

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Post by dakshgupta »

Conscat wrote: post #18

I've tried it on my own C++ codebase. It's fun, and I'm impressed that it could tell me which C++ standard is used (a question which is often difficult to find an answer to on random codebases), but it's really bad at analyzing templates. The answers it gives me are always incomplete and usually at least partly or mostly incorrect. I'm surprised by this in some cases, because my questions are answered by comments in…

Examining now and looks like we’ve been heavily discounting the comments in our search. Going to look into fixing it this week.

Thanks for pointing that out!

Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

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Post by injidup »

dakshgupta wrote: post #7
sidcool wrote: post #5

Congrats on launching. However I don't like the 'Act on your behalf' permission this needs.

Thanks! Yeah, it’s strangely worded for what it is. We’ve emailed GitHub about it. Our permissions are read-only but since we read “on your behalf” this is technically true.

Why don't you read on your own behalf. You don't need this permission at all. It's just to harvest email addresses right?

Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

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Post by dakshgupta »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #21
soohoonchoi wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are about a hundred open source repos you can talk to for free over at https://app.greptile.com/repo , we are looking to add more repositories as well. The permissions we get on login are from the Github App flow, you will still have to grant Greptile access specific organization/repositories for it to work with your own private repos.

Best way to get in touch if a maintainer who wants to provide public repo access?

You can email me -> daksh [at] greptile.com

Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

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Post by dakshgupta »

drcongo wrote: post #27

I've been looking for something like this, but local-only. Any plans to let people self-host and point at local repositories?

We’ve been grappling with making it local but two considerations

1. Haven’t figured out what should trigger updates. Every commit sounds crazy, every save would be perfect but too intensive also.

2. LLMs will not be self hosted. We haven’t been able to get the same results with any smaller LLMs

To answer your questions we definitely want to make this available for local repos and ideally self hosted, on a technical level that’s probably several month away.

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