Lightning-fast, self-hosted code search engine with a Go backend and web UI.
What is Hound?
Lightning-fast, self-hosted code search engine with a Go backend and web UI. See it in our Development Tools collection.
Key benefits
- Hound fits into a modern web development toolchain and can reduce boilerplate work.
- Using Hound can improve developer productivity versus ad‑hoc scripts and manual processes.
- Hound typically integrates with Git-based workflows, CI/CD, or popular runtimes and frameworks.
Use cases
- Integrating Hound into your local dev or CI pipeline to automate repetitive work.
- Using Hound to monitor, debug, or optimize applications in production.
- Adopting Hound as a standard tool across your engineering team for consistency.
About Hound
Hound is an extremely fast source-code search engine designed for teams that want responsive, self-hosted search across large repositories. It combines a Go backend with a lightweight web UI and keeps repositories indexed for quick regex-based queries. Hound supports multiple VCS backends and can be configured to watch repositories for updates. It’s a strong alternative to heavier hosted code search services when you want speed, local control, and predictable infrastructure costs. Ideal for engineering teams that regularly dig through large codebases and want a simple, fast internal search tool.
Sources & further reading
- code-search
- developer-tools
- self-hosted
- go
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