> Developers don't like writing docs. Now, they don't have to!
Well that’s a terrible premise. AI can’t get at design decisions or anything that’s not explicitly encoded in code, but still connected. The “why” is extremely valuable.
One of the creators of greptile here. We are retiring this concept (it’s not part of our new landing page which should be out this month). You’re right, good docs contain the “why”. Our premise was most docs are tech companies are bad, so Greptile is 0 effort and rests squarely in-between bad docs and good docs. That was not how it was interpreted by most people, understandably.
I think this looks nice and compelling, but I wonder how you lock down the seats here.
For an organization, they're going to be thinking "why not just get one seat and share it?"
It's also a hard sell to developers, who can spin up a LLM+RAG a lot easier than folks in spaces being similarly served by an OpenAI-as-a-service proxy app. Pointing ollama at my codebase is fairly trivial.
Not trying to rain on any parades; there are a lot of AI-powered projects like this and the ones that are selling are those that have proprietary data and serve less technical spaces.
This is the case with most seat-based tools, except here you authenticate via your code hosting service, so it only lets you query the repos you have read perms for. Of course it’s not fool proof.
IMO it’s really easy to build a basic version of this that answers basic questions. We are attempting to build something that can answer the types of questions a good developer at a company would have about the company codebase. In our experience that’s a much harder problem than it looks.
Limiting by size in MiB is understandable for cost, but as a user it put me off after trying multiple repositories (popular OSS and personal) because I couldn't find one under that size and ended up not trying it at all. Curious to know how much repo size influenced the $20 pro cost.
Not the developer, but chances are, they are either using a fine-tuned ChatGPT, or cloud-hosting something in the likes of Llama. So they are getting quite a bill each month from one of the 3 cloud landlords.
So until they find a good product/market fit, opening the floodgates to free users would just drain whatever money they raised faster than they would get any meaningful market response.
> Developers don't like writing docs. Now, they don't have to!
Well that’s a terrible premise. AI can’t get at design decisions or anything that’s not explicitly encoded in code, but still connected. The “why” is extremely valuable.
For an organization, they're going to be thinking "why not just get one seat and share it?"
It's also a hard sell to developers, who can spin up a LLM+RAG a lot easier than folks in spaces being similarly served by an OpenAI-as-a-service proxy app. Pointing ollama at my codebase is fairly trivial.
Not trying to rain on any parades; there are a lot of AI-powered projects like this and the ones that are selling are those that have proprietary data and serve less technical spaces.
IMO it’s really easy to build a basic version of this that answers basic questions. We are attempting to build something that can answer the types of questions a good developer at a company would have about the company codebase. In our experience that’s a much harder problem than it looks.
Painfully reminded me that my main project has a way to large repo size because we store binaries in them.
Would be nice if they offered discounts for open source projects.
(If you have large binaries that are not in LFS you should consider converting them)
docs.greptile.com
It comes with 150 free requests but email me and I’ll give you more if you run out.
daksh@greptile.com
We have a list of OSS repos that are free to interact with here: https://app.greptile.com/repo
Feel free to email me if there’s one you’d like us to add to the free tier that isn’t there.
daksh@greptile.com
So until they find a good product/market fit, opening the floodgates to free users would just drain whatever money they raised faster than they would get any meaningful market response.
Free list of repos here https://app.greptile.com/repo
https://app.greptile.com/repo
Feel free to email me if you’d like any more to be added.
daksh@greptile.com