# Gergely Orosz builds a search tool for his Pragmatic Engineer articles in three hours

> Original title: Done in 3 hours.

- Source: Gergely Orosz
- Published: 2026-11-07T16:24:48.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/a3112y7h0rk78mdm5qev2xuhi
- Original: https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2119103784894824734

## Summary

Gergely Orosz says he built a search tool for his Pragmatic Engineer articles in three hours, using turbopuffer and Jev categorization. He calls the new search much better than Substack's, which he describes as terrible, and says the build was fast.

## Post

Done in 3 hours. 

Substack search is beyond terrible, and been bugging me for some time.

Dropped all my articles into turbopuffer, added search + Jev categorization and I've MUCH better search: https://api.pragmaticengineer.com/search

Just incredible how fast it is to build

## Quoted post @GergelyOrosz

> Been putting off a side project that should have taken 3-4 standalone days to properly build pre-AI and so never bothered
> 
> Seeing if I can get it done in a few hours now with Codex

https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2119051614807835045