# Almanac

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Almanac and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for company AI with a wiki layer that helps from the first days. Critics say the website doesn't explain what makes it unique.

## Why people recommend it

- Wiki layer improves answer quality (2 comments): "Having this layer betters the quality of responses, but also enables a lot of features we have in Almanac/plant to add." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512359)) "The reason we're confident we stand out is because of our wiki layer." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512778))
- Polished website and demo (2 comments): "Really simple and well designed website for the brand identity." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512818)) "The demo in the video you linked looks awesome" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512252))

## What people warn about

- Unclear what sets it apart (2 comments): "I'm not sure you have a very strong answer to "Why not just run Claude or Codex on my laptop?"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512409)) "The website tells me absolutely nothing about what makes this new or unique" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512087))
- Polish flag may confuse visitors (1 comments): "Looks like the Polish flag on first glance and I immediately thought does it show me pricing from Poland" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512886))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [LLM Wiki](https://hackerapproved.com/p/llm-wiki.md): 20 recommend
- [Overflow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/stack-overflow-for-ai-coding-agents.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Almanac", https://hackerapproved.com/p/almanac/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).