Show HN: BitHubLab, Search for projects on all the major Git platforms

This is very cool. If you start to hit API rate limits for these services, you can try using the Sourcegraph API (email me sqs@sourcegraph.com and I can make sure your API key isn&#x27;t rate-limited). Sourcegraph indexes all of these Git platforms and has a search API: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.sourcegraph.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;features&#x2F;api" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.sourcegraph.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;features&#x2F;api</a>.

Mildly annoying nitpick:<p>The name is BitHubLab (Bitbucket, Github, Gitlab) yet the checkboxes in the bottom are in Github - Gitlab - Bitbucket order.<p>As if the name is HubLabBit rather than BitHubLab

I love the logo. Beware those platforms might go after you for trademark violation.<p>(I&#x27;d personally argue you&#x27;re making a joke and it should be protected under parody, but no one ever actually wants to go on a legal fight over a logo).<p>Really good concept though. Good work.

This is really neat, and as the GitHub acquisition moves forward, I suspect a lot of Microsoft&#x27;s competitors will move elsewhere, so this will be handy.<p>What about self-hosting though? If you run your own GitLab, how would you get listed on your search engine? Is that something you&#x27;ve looked at?

Other than Github&#x27;s icon, I had no idea what the icons for the other check boxes were. I figured it out, but I would recommend using the name rather than icon especially since the names aren&#x27;t long. I also recommend to start with them all checked by default then let people filter later.

Haha! Love the logo!<p>In terms of use: the search results seem good when searching a specific thing, but results can be a bit less useful when searching something generic like &quot;python directory utility&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not sure I can see myself using this over Google or the package ecosystems for the various languages and frameworks I use<p>PS: in isakkeyten&#x27;s comment the implied name based on order of checkboxes is &quot;HubLabBit&quot;, which I actually like better as a name as it rolls off the tongue a little better IMO.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;OpHwOvU.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;OpHwOvU.png</a><p>The checkboxes are pixelated (this is FF) and rather hard to distinguish from the logos. Oddly, at first, I was looking at the logos from right to left and I was confused what the last and third to last logos were, hah.<p>It would be cool if the logos themselves were the checkboxes, with a darker version for checked and lightened version for unchecked (and all should be checked by default).

&gt; on all the major Git platforms<p>missing notabug.org and savannah

Just wondering why BitBucket option isn&#x27;t enabled by default?

Awesome stuff! Great timing too. Code Search is super useful and there are a bunch of folks already going after this space. Sourcegraph, CodePilot.ai, Searchcode.com, and many more! Happy to see something so light and elegant for the use case. Good work!

Oh this is just what I was looking for! It would be cool to have a &quot;GitHub&quot; like interface that shows you repos from gitea, gogs, basically anywhere there&#x27;s a hosted repo on the internet, not just from a centralized git hosting website

nice tool, nice timing, might be useful with all the moving projects. pls consider adding the title attribute to the images for screen readers and users who don&#x27;t know the logos.

Slightly tangent, I really hope these kind of things enable us to do more with code already written:<p>* Like I should be able to query based on signature of the function rather than just banking on its name.<p>* I want to see how different projects use this particular package- what are its most used methods; how any of its types are constructed.<p>* What are the best practices for using a particular package etc

The checkboxes under the search bar does not look like checkboxes but a series of logos of platforms. I was left wondering what ticked boxes meant.<p>Cool project.

Something for the backlog: I enjoy the explore&#x2F;discovery feature of GitHub - aggregating that into one site would be great.

I wonder if it’s possible to automaticaly have a mirror of my GitHub repositories to GitLab, or GitBucket.

&gt; You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.<p>Sigh.

Very nice. Maybe you should include stars and last commit date in the search results, or even as filters.

Has a typo: &quot;repisitories&quot;<p>Also, didn&#x27;t found one of my repositories hosted publicly on github since years.

&gt; You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.<p>Okay, it&#x27;s a first iteration, but this would be ideal to provide some functioning homepage and otherwise potentially do server-side stuff and not require client-side JavaScript just to see text and HTML forms and submit them.

Right on the day that Microsoft acquires Gitlab :-)

Needs more ChiselApp ! ;-)