Bible as RAG Database
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Made this in a free evening. Index an permissive license translation of the Bible (WEB) into a RAG database to allow returning passages of similar semantic meaning. Lots of fun. For example, "more money more problems" returns Ecclesiastes 5:9-13 which, I'll just say, is spot on.."Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field. He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes? The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep. There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm."Anyway - thought it was fun enough to share. It's slow and I vibe coded it so I haven't sorted out how to make it not take 15 seconds to vector search against the full 4GB index.
HN · launched Jun 25, 2026 · 166 upvotes (top 5%) · 1 view
Niche: religious and scripture study apps · 82 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -45% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a quintessential vibe-coding project consisting of embedding public domain text into a vector database and running semantic similarity search with a simple UI.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Sefaria (for Jewish legal texts), zvec (vector database alternative)
Concerns raised: Unclear real-world impact and effectiveness, Limited language support beyond English/Javascript
Feature requests: Word-by-word transliteration display option, Support for Jewish legal texts (Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi), Support for Quran with transliteration, Multi-language/multi-canon religious text support
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 78 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 79 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 228 days after the earliest competitor.
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- BibleFollow · hn · 2026-07-15 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- ScriptureGen · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Study Bible MCP · hn · 2026-04-29 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Bible for Me: Audio Bible · ph · 2026-10-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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