Graphify
Shares rank 9 of 15 code search tools by recommenders
Recommended for giving coding agents a portable JSON map of a codebase from one command. Caveat: some find it slower than alternatives.
Recommended for giving coding agents a portable JSON map of a codebase from one command. Caveat: some find it slower than alternatives.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 62%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Portable JSON output for tooling
“Dumping a portable json file allows much more flexibility than just having to run Rider IDE in the background”
Comment from 12 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Graphify C# – Compiler-accurate Find Usages for coding agents” “the CLI and structured JSON make semantic information accessible to coding agents”
Comment from 12 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Graphify C# – Compiler-accurate Find Usages for coding agents” Easy one-command setup
“one command, full semantic knowledge graph”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “Used Graphify to turn incidents into a queryable knowledge graph” “Easy to setup and use too. I like it.”
Comment from 16 Apr 2026 in “Claude Opus 4.7” Praised as a great project
“graphify is a great project you should try it with FalkorDB”
Comment from 29 Jun 2026 in “Map your project into a knowledge graph” “whoa very nice! If possible, keep us updated.”
Comment from 12 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Graphify C# – Compiler-accurate Find Usages for coding agents”
Other code search tools people recommend
The four most recommended other code search tools, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ripgrep | 122 | 18 | 87% | 12 | — | Approved |
| ast-grep | 21 | 3 | 88% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Semble | 20 | 7 | 74% | 4 | — | Approved |
| Graft (Claude Code hooks) | 13 | 4 | 76% | 4 | — | Approved |
| GraphifyThis page | 8 | 5 | 62% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“there was a lot of structured information returned that the model (and harness) isn't set up to work with effectively.”
“compare with Graphify 48.7%”
“On Kubernetes, it built the code graph in about 3 min vs 26 min for Graphify, same result.”
“whoa very nice! If possible, keep us updated.”
“It seems very wordy, but wording like these”
“on my repo the json is over 600mb”
“the CLI and structured JSON make semantic information accessible to coding agents”
“Dumping a portable json file allows much more flexibility than just having to run Rider IDE in the background”
“graphify only looks at names and file paths”
“graphify is a great project you should try it with FalkorDB”
“Yes, several projects have been going in the right direction.”
“It results in way less tokens spent as well”
“Easy to setup and use too. I like it.”
“I really dislike that graphify hooks rebuild the graph post-commit, since I want to include the graph files in my git repo.”
“one command, full semantic knowledge graph”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.