# Nutlope/turboseek

An AI search engine inspired by Perplexity

Repository: https://github.com/Nutlope/turboseek
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/turboseek
Homepage: https://www.turboseek.io/
Language: TypeScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-07-12T19:12:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 65/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 35, longevity 59
- inputs: {"age_days": 829, "days_push": 52, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1655, forks 257 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:17.856152+00:00)

## What it is
TurboSeek is an open-source AI search engine web application inspired by Perplexity, built with Next.js and TypeScript. It searches the web, scrapes top results as context, and streams LLM-generated answers with follow-up question suggestions.

## Use cases
- build an AI answer engine like Perplexity
- ask questions and get cited answers from web sources
- self-host an open source AI search engine
- learn how to build a RAG search app with a tutorial
- generate related follow-up questions for a query

## When to choose
- you want a Perplexity-style search experience you control and self-host
- you want a reference implementation for combining web search, scraping, and LLM streaming
- you're learning to build AI search apps with Next.js and Together AI

## When to avoid
- you need production-grade features like auth, caching, rate limiting, or citation numbering (still on the roadmap)
- you need a managed, hosted search API rather than a deployable app
- you require a license guarantee — the repo has no license file

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, rag, llm-inference, web-scraping, chatbot
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, web-development
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: ai-search-engine, perplexity-clone, nextjs, together-ai, exa, streaming-answers, open-source, search, retrieval-augmented-generation, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- Nutlope/turboseek (main) score 65

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:17.856152+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:44:51.531166+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Nutlope/turboseek (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:17.856152+00:00, sha 0ea87e499aab)
  - homepage: https://www.turboseek.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:17:54.041771+00:00, sha fa1a1b7f828c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.