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by JohnQPasserby 5217 days ago
It's irritating when these so-called "open source" projects don't have a link to the source from the home page or anywhere else obvious.
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Why the downvote? This is an issue.

When collecting repositories for searchco.de I literally have spent hours hunting around on many project pages looking for the page which points you at how to get the source for a project. Its usually buried in a wiki page in the developer subdomain. A simple link from the homepage with "Get Source" would save myself and im certain a lot of others a great deal of time.

can I ask what are your imagined use cases for searchco.de? It looks interesting but I cannot think of what I could use it for
Its just a semi replacement for Google code search. To be honest, its just something I play with. If something comes from it great, if not im not terribly worried about it.
It's neat, but it's hard to find something unless you can guess what people name their fn and vars for programming domain X
True. I have been using it a lot recently to learn how the Guava and Guice API's work in the real world. So perhaps that's its target market. I also tend to use it when trying to remember how some feature of a language works EG lambdas in python http://searchco.de/?q=lambda+ext%3Apy&cs=on