Semsearch
Embedding-first indexing and search engine for indle blogs
Details
- External ID
- 49155493
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Semsearch
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4731182795698925
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
Live instance: https://semsearch.blog/Write-up: https://ycao.net/posts/creating-semsearch (submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155055)
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- embedding-based search for indie blogs
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Building an indie blog search engine using off-the-shelf embedding models (e.g., OpenAI or Hugging Face) and a vector database like Qdrant or LanceDB is a classic AI-assisted project.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 27 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 28 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 209 days after the earliest competitor.
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- An index of indie web/blog indexes · hn · 2026-05-10 · 154 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Mira · hn · 2026-05-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Indexing Url: link instant indexer tools · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- I built a frontpage for personal blogs · hn · 2026-04-03 · 783 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Zero downtime embedding model upgrades · hn · 2026-09-08 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- AIBlog.Tools · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- I built a social-first search(X, Reddit, TikTok) cause Google is boring · hn · 2026-06-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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