Ever felt totally lost trying to find that one piece of code buried somewhere across dozens, maybe hundreds, of repositories? Yeah, us too.
Back in 2013, Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu felt this pain hard. They weren't VPs in suits; they were developers in the trenches, tired of wasting hours wrestling with grep or clunky internal tools.
Their big idea was deceptively simple: "Finding stuff in code is harder than it should be."
And so, Sourcegraph was born. The mission? Build a universal code search tool. Think Google, but specifically for navigating the messy, sprawling world of source code.
- The Early Hustle: Winning Developer Love (Not Suits)
- Okay, Time to Grow Up (A Little): The Enterprise Shift
- The Secret Sauce: Dogfooding Like Crazy
- The Bumps in the Road
- Who Else is Playing in the Code Search Sandbox?
- Sourcegraph's Winning Moves
- Lessons for Builders & Hackers
