Mgrep
A Semantic, Multimodal Grep
Details
- External ID
- 45998373
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- jgrep
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 20, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.27074235807860264
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- native desktop apps and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- semantic multimodal search
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a CLI wrapper is easy, but integrating multimodal embeddings, local vector index caching, and fast multimodal chunking/search across media formats requires specialized ML/search pipelines.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires local or API-backed vision-language embedding models (such as CLIP or SigLIP) with an embedded vector index (like SQLite-vec or Faiss) running locally. It requires building fast multithreaded directory traversers, multimodal content extractors (handling images, PDFs, audio, code), and efficient vector similarity search routines in Rust or Python.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Concerns raised: Privacy/security concerns about sending data to unknown company, Requirement to log in and share data
Competitors
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Attention rank: #987 of 1383 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 21 days after the earliest competitor.
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