WHAT I LEARNED BUILDING A FREE SEMANTIC SEARCH TOOL FOR GITHUB AND WHY I FAILED

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

SemHub is a free semantic search tool for GitHub issues that aims to improve upon GitHub's existing search capabilities by allowing cross-repository and fuzzy searches. Despite using a modern TypeScript stack and vector search optimizations using pgvector, the project failed to gain traction. The creator found that the tool was solving a problem that wasn't painful enough for most developers and required too much behavioral change.