They claim other search tools are, "too slow, too hard to configure, or require too much software to be installed."<p>Something like OpenGrok (<a href="http://opengrok.github.io/OpenGrok/" rel="nofollow">http://opengrok.github.io/OpenGrok/</a>) seems fairly straightforward and only requires a servlet container beyond Java; 1 more piece of software than Hound.<p>Seems cool, but also that they reinvented the wheel instead of improving an existing project.