Crustdata - Web Search API for AI Agents
Fastest and most accurate web search API for people, companies and events
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YC · launched Feb 5, 2026 · 79 upvotes (top 12%) · 0 views
Niche: data enrichment and lookup apis · 83 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
No Crustdata operates a massive real-time web crawling and search API for B2B data, which requires planetary-scale web scraping infrastructure, residential proxy pools, and complex entity resolution.
What it would actually take: Building a real-time B2B search engine demands distributed crawler fleets managing millions of requests across platforms like LinkedIn, Github, and business registries while continuously evading sophisticated anti-bot defenses (Cloudflare, DataDome). The data pipeline requires high-throughput streaming (Kafka, Flink), petabyte-scale document and graph stores, and sophisticated record-linkage algorithms to de-duplicate and unify identities across fragmented web records. Operating this requires significant distributed systems expertise and heavy capital for proxy networks and headless browser infrastructure.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2856 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #307 of 2857 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 99 days after the earliest competitor.
- AgentSearch · hn · 2026-04-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Jiro · ph · 2026-10-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Crustdata (YC F24) · hn · 2026-02-25 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Jevcrawl · hn · 2026-10-13 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- A CLI to scrape, search, and interact with the web for AI agents · hn · 2026-03-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- bettersearch · github · 2026-10-18 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Rindler - Turn Any Website Into An API For AI Agents · yc · 2026-07-09 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Context.dev: Live web data API for AI agents · yc · 2026-08-05 · 113 upvotes · similarity 0.63
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