I'm not into "vibe coding" in the sense that I don't like asking an LLM to build huge swaths of things, but I sometimes use Cursor's agent feature to add similar features (imagine I already have a bunch of settings for somethings, and I ask it to add a new setting for something else. With the right pointers this is helpful and does save me time — I already have all the foundation set and basically saves me from "grunt work" that's easy/quick to verify and low complexity/cognition to build).

Mistral's Vibe worked well enough for this, but isn't as neatly integrated, so I'd like to know if there's something like a Cursor alternative that's privacy-focused and/or EU-based, as I'd prefer that to Cursor (especially with the recent SpaceX deal, and how many privacy-related bugs they've shipped recently that they can't seem to fix, like not being able to delete chat history).

I tried Zed and really liked its speed and simplicity, but the autocomplete is much worse (using Zed's or even using Mistral's). Void has been discontinued and I haven't tried VS Code recently because last time I opened it, it tried to force Copilot down my throat so much I almost puked.

Am I looking for something that doesn't exist? Will I just need to keep using Cursor and hope it doesn't "go bad"? Should I just go back to VS Code or Vs Codium?

Thank you for your suggestions!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893545

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Then, continuously keep in touch to ensure you're building and tweaking the product according to their needs, not what _you think_ is important.

It's mostly customer support and business development work, not as much development/engineering, which is what most software engineers believe and hope it to be.

What you can use, right now, is every provider's index (Mojeek, Marginalia, and EUSP are completely independent, AFAIK).

BTW, I've been a client of Hetzner (Cloud, Object Storage, and Storage Box) for a few years now, very happy with them!

- Serper [2], if you like Google-style results

- Mojeek [3], if your searches are more EU-centric

- Linkup [4], if you like Google-style results, but more about intent and less about keyword matching

- Marginalia [5], if your searches are less about "big tech SEO servants"

- EUSP [6], if your searches are more UK/FR/DE-centric

Note that these are all paid, but most offer free trials (or are limited when free). With Uruky you can also easily search with any or all of them. If you'd like an account number with a couple of days to try for free, let me know.

[1]: https://uruky.com

[2]: https://serper.dev

[3]: https://www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/

[4]: https://linkup.so

[5]: https://about.marginalia-search.com/article/api/

[6]: https://www.eu-searchperspective.com

Thanks.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754090

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On that first link you can find a lot of answers to frequently asked questions.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700880

[2]: https://uruky.com

My wife and I continue to work on Uruky, a EU-based Kagi alternative [2].

Since last month we finally got our production API Key for EUSP/STAAN (it was certainly the slowest and most complicated search provider to adopt, so far), and that brought us to 5 search providers you can choose from and sort as you prefer.

We already have got over 40 paying customers (excluding family and friends, we’re guessing these paying customers came from some privacy listings and HN comments) and have exited beta last month!

Customers seem to really enjoy the simple UI (search can be used without JS) and search personalization (from choosing the providers to the domain boosting and exclusion). We also have hashbangs (like "!g", "!d", or “!e”) when something doesn’t quite give you what you’d expect, though.

You can see the main differences between Kagi and Uruky in the linked page, but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get a copy of the source code!

One thing we’re struggling with is outreach because we want to do it ethically, and it’s hard to find communities or places to sponsor which are privacy-focused and don’t require €5k+ deals. Ideas are welcome! Because of bots there isn’t a free trial easily available, but if you’re a human and you’d like to try it for a couple of days for free, reach out with your account number and we’ll set that up!

Thanks.

P.S.: Because people have asked before, our tech stack is intentionally very "boring" (as in, it generates and serves the HTML + bits of JS to enhance settings and such), using Deno in the backend (for easier TypeScript), PostgreSQL for the DB, and Docker for easier deploying.

P.P.S.: Because this has been also brought up before, the name has no special meaning but we read it like "Euro-key" in English. Names are hard, and we’re aware it can remind people of Uruk and Uruk-hai. That’s OK.

P.P.P.S.: Another frequent question here is “how does it work?” When you search, we query the first search provider on your list, and if it yields less than X results (only Mojeek really gives us a total count, we have to try + estimate for the others), we try the second, and so on. We then merge the results in a round-robin fashion (first of first, first of second, second of first, second of second, and so on). There’s a bit of more nuanced logic to also properly rank the results with the pin/exclude/raise/lower preferences, because it works differently across providers and not all of them support that, for example.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679021

[2] https://uruky.com

Since last month we finally got our production API Key for EUSP/STAAN (it was certainly the slowest and most complicated search provider to adopt, so far), and that brought us to 5 search providers you can choose from and sort as you prefer.

We already have got over 40 paying customers (excluding family and friends, we’re guessing these paying customers came from some privacy listings and HN comments) and have exited beta last month!

Customers seem to really enjoy the simple UI (search can be used without JS) and search personalization (from choosing the providers to the domain boosting and exclusion). We also have hashbangs (like "!g", "!d", or “!e”) when something doesn’t quite give you what you’d expect, though.

You can see the main differences between Kagi and Uruky in the linked page, but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get a copy of the source code!

One thing we’re struggling with is outreach because we want to do it ethically, and it’s hard to find communities or places to sponsor which are privacy-focused and don’t require €5k+ deals. Ideas are welcome!

Because of bots there isn’t a free trial easily available, but if you’re a human and you’d like to try it for a couple of days for free, reach out with your account number and we’ll set that up!

Thanks.

P.S.: Because people have asked before, our tech stack is intentionally very "boring" (as in, it generates and serves the HTML + bits of JS to enhance settings and such), using Deno in the backend (for easier TypeScript), PostgreSQL for the DB, and Docker for easier deploying.

P.P.S.: Because this has been also brought up before, the name has no special meaning but we read it like "Euro-key" in English. Names are hard, and we’re aware it can remind people of Uruk and Uruk-hai. That’s OK.

P.P.P.S.: Another frequent question here is “how does it work?” When you search, we query the first search provider on your list, and if it yields less than X results (only Mojeek really gives us a total count, we have to try + estimate for the others), we try the second, and so on. We then merge the results in a round-robin fashion (first of first, first of second, second of first, second of second, and so on). There’s a bit of more nuanced logic to also properly rank the results with the pin/exclude/raise/lower preferences, because it works differently across providers and not all of them support that, for example.

[1] https://uruky.com

EDIT: After a deeper look, I found some issues, like there are a lot of seemingly duplicate categories, (AWS [1] and Amazon Web Services [2]), but with different sets of results, which could be solved with normalisation, but then there are many "alternatives" shown that aren't EU-based, but OSS, like Gatsby [3] or NocoDB [4] and I'm not sure what to think. I think that's acceptable, but for OSS there are other lists I'd look into instead of a website/listing like this.

[1]: https://euro-stack.com/alternatives/aws

[2]: https://euro-stack.com/alternatives/amazon-web-services-aws

[3]: https://euro-stack.com/solutions/gatsby

[4]: https://euro-stack.com/solutions/nocodb