FMQL
graph query and bulk-edit CLI for Markdown and YAML frontmatter
Details
- External ID
- 47853877
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- FMQL
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4813624678663239
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document processing and generation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- query and edit markdown and yaml frontmatter
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a CLI tool for parsing, querying, and updating YAML frontmatter in Markdown files using standard parsing libraries.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Obsidian plugins, Dataview, LogSeq, Notion queries
Concerns raised: Linear scan performance degrades with large vaults (hundreds+ documents), Scalability limits unclear at different document counts, Adoption friction for non-developers unfamiliar with query syntax
Feature requests: Semantic search backend beyond grep (author mentions as future work), Better performance optimization for large vaults, GUI/visual query builder alternative to CLI
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 255 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #122 of 256 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 174 days after the earliest competitor.
- Markdown as a Database · hn · 2026-04-24 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- DAGraph · hn · 2026-05-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Sarala · hn · 2026-09-29 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Xsql · hn · 2025-12-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- OpenMarkdown · hn · 2026-07-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- MDV · hn · 2026-04-18 · 152 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Editxr · hn · 2026-06-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- pg-query-validate · github · 2026-09-27 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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- No other launches for this product.
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