# Hound

[Hound](https://github.com/etsy/hound) was created inside Etsy by [Kelly Norton](https://github.com/kellegous) and others and open sourced in 2015. It appears to not be actively maintained anymore, with the most recent commit (as of this document's publishing) being more than 5 months old, and many open PRs unattended to.

Sourcegraph is a good replacement for Hound for almost every organization.

## Pros

- Very simple deployment
- Very simple interface

## Cons

- Apparent unmaintained status
- Poor scalability to many repositories (both performance-wise and UX-wise)
- Limited filtering available for search queries
- No support for code navigation (code intelligence and/or ctags)


<section class="h0Wrapper headingWrapper"><section class="h1Wrapper headingWrapper"><h1 id="hound"><a class="anchor" aria-hidden tabindex="-1" href="#hound"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Hound</h1>
<p><a href="https://github.com/etsy/hound">Hound</a> was created inside Etsy by <a href="https://github.com/kellegous">Kelly Norton</a> and others and open sourced in 2015. It appears to not be actively maintained anymore, with the most recent commit (as of this document’s publishing) being more than 5 months old, and many open PRs unattended to.</p>
<p>Sourcegraph is a good replacement for Hound for almost every organization.</p>
<section class="h2Wrapper headingWrapper"><h2 id="pros"><a class="anchor" aria-hidden tabindex="-1" href="#pros"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Pros</h2>
<ul>
<li>Very simple deployment</li>
<li>Very simple interface</li>
</ul>
</section><section class="h2Wrapper headingWrapper"><h2 id="cons"><a class="anchor" aria-hidden tabindex="-1" href="#cons"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Cons</h2>
<ul>
<li>Apparent unmaintained status</li>
<li>Poor scalability to many repositories (both performance-wise and UX-wise)</li>
<li>Limited filtering available for search queries</li>
<li>No support for code navigation (code intelligence and/or ctags)</li>
</ul></section></section></section>