[under-the-rug stub] [see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45988611 for explanation]
Amazing product. As an individual heavy user I must say it does what it is supposed to do and it does it well.
glad to hear that!
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Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents
#32[flagged]
Please make your substantive points without being snarky or aggressive. You have a good point in there at the end, but the site guidelines ask you not to comment like this, and that's especially important in Show or Launch threads.
Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents
#33I've no idea what their architecture/implementation looks like, but I've built a similar tool for my own use and the improvements are dramatic to say the least. Mine's a simple BM25 index for code keyword search (I use it alongside serena-mcp) and for some use cases the speeds and token efficiency are insane. https://gitlab.com/rhobimd-oss/shebe#comparison-shebe-vs-alt...
(I detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46195560 because your comment is fine and I don't want it to be penalized.)
Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents
#34[under-the-rug stub]
[see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45988611 for explanation]
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#35[under-the-rug stub] [see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45988611 for explanation]
Congrats on the launch! Definitely a problem I’ve run into myself.
Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents
#36[under-the-rug stub] [see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45988611 for explanation]
congrats on the launch Arlan! Nia is a lifesaver when we're coding :)
Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents
#37Cursor promises to do this[0] in the product, so, especially on HN, it'd be best to start with "why this is better than Cursor". > favorite doc sites so I do not have to paste URLs into Cursor This is especially confusing, because cursor has a feature for docs you want to scrape regularly. 0 - https://cursor.com/docs/context/codebase-indexing
This is different because of the background refresh, the identifier extraction and the graph. I know because I use cursor and am building the exact same thing oddly enough.
Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents
#38Congrats on the launch. The problem is definitely there. I wonder how are you planning to differentiate yourself from Cursor and the like. You mention you are complementary, but Cursor provide similar features to add external doc context for instance to a prompt. I understand you do better in your benchmark, but with the amount of funding they may be able to replicate and improve over it (unless you have a secret thing).
Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents
#39Is the RAG database on your servers or is it local? If not local is there a local option?
Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents
#40Is the RAG database on your servers or is it local? If not local is there a local option?
hey! i use multiple DBs but the primary ones are turbopuffer and chroma for package search. they are really great
re local, I do local for certain companies!