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HN · launched Mar 25, 2026 · 18 upvotes (top 28%) · 0 views
Niche: semantic search and rag tools · 93 launches, 0 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- Developer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 93 launches in semantic search and rag tools →
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 : 165 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #52 of 166 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 145 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pg_sorted_heap–Physically sorted PostgreSQL with builtin vector search · hn · 2026-03-06 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- ParqDB · hn · 2026-08-21 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Instant GraphRAG over any Postgres database · hn · 2026-07-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- pg_grpc · hn · 2026-04-13 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- SatoriDB · hn · 2025-12-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- pggo · github · 2026-09-29 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- pg-query-validate · github · 2026-09-27 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- kividb · github · 2026-10-16 · 316 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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