Pgsemantic
Point at your Postgres DB, get vector search instantly
Details
- External ID
- 47521443
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pgsemantic
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 18
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7207872078720787
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- database infrastructure and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- vector search for postgres databases
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a utility CLI or service that introspects Postgres schema, triggers an embedding API on selected text columns, and creates/queries standard `pgvector` indexes.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: pgvector, ai2sql.io
Concerns raised: Embedding generation latency — trigger vs batch sync tradeoff, Schema evolution handling — automatic detection or manual reconfiguration, Search results lag in batch sync mode
Feature requests: Hybrid queries combining natural language-to-SQL with vector similarity, Automatic detection of new searchable columns
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 86 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 87 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 145 days after the earliest competitor.
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- ParqDB · hn · 2026-08-21 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Instant GraphRAG over any Postgres database · hn · 2026-07-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- pg_grpc · hn · 2026-04-13 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- SatoriDB · hn · 2025-12-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- pg-query-validate · github · 2026-09-27 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- justPostgres · github · 2026-09-09 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- lead · github · 2026-09-17 · 144 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.