CatchAll: Recall-first web search API
Turning the web into a structured database of real-world events
Details
- External ID
- 99812
- Source
- YC
- Company
- NewsCatcher
- Product
- CatchAll: Recall-first web search API
- Website domain
- newscatcherapi.com
- Launched
- April 16, 2026
- Cohort
- Summer 2022
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.04285714285714286
- Tags
- Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Enterprise, Big Data, Enterprise Software
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 1 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 1 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- web search api that indexes real-world events
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No CatchAll/NewsCatcher operates a massive, real-time web crawler indexing millions of web sources, deduplicating news, and providing low-latency event extraction with 99.95% SLAs. Building and maintaining internet-scale crawling infrastructure with anti-bot evasion and real-time streaming pipelines is impossible with vibe coding alone.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a distributed crawling cluster (Kubernetes, Scrapy/headless browsers, residential proxy rotators) that continuously scrapes hundreds of thousands of news and government domains. Ingested streams flow through Kafka/Flink pipelines for automated deduplication, named-entity recognition (NER), and taxonomy tagging, feeding an Elasticsearch/OpenSearch or ClickHouse cluster capable of millisecond queries across billions of historical documents. Operating this requires deep expertise in distributed systems, network infrastructure, data engineering, and continuous proxy/fingerprint maintenance.
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Launched 169 days after the earliest competitor.
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