Open KB: Open LLM Knowledge Base
Details
- External ID
- 47752392
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- April 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2808483290488432
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
We release an open source version of Andrej Karparthy's open knowledge base, and we scale it to support long PDFs with Pageindex. Any feedback is welcome to help us improve this project!Github repo: https://github.com/VectifyAI/OpenKB
Enrichment
- Theme
- document processing and generation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- knowledge base for llms
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an open-source wrapper and extension around Karpathy's knowledge base concepts and Pageindex/LLM APIs for indexing PDFs. The entire codebase consists of standard Python, document chunking, embeddings, and LLM orchestration that is easily vibe-coded.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Other Karpathy Knowledge base projects
Concerns raised: Too many similar projects makes it hard to choose
Feature requests: Comparison with competing projects in README
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 58 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 59 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 166 days after the earliest competitor.
- Kiso, an open-source publishing engine for Open Knowledge Format · hn · 2026-06-27 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- LLM Wiki · hn · 2026-04-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Cabinet · hn · 2026-04-05 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- llmwiki-operational · github · 2026-09-16 · 136 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Data Engineering Book · hn · 2026-02-13 · 251 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- A better LLM-wiki with multi-path research [550 stars] · hn · 2026-06-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- litsurvey · github · 2026-09-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- knowledge-base-kit · github · 2026-09-26 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a data infrastructure tool for Media & entertainment yet.