ShapedQL: The SQL engine for search, feeds, and AI agents
Connect your data. Train your models. Query text, user or session context and retrieve relevant results in milliseconds.
Details
- External ID
- 97225
- Source
- YC
- Company
- Shaped
- Product
- ShapedQL: The SQL engine for search, feeds, and AI agents
- Website domain
- shaped.ai
- Launched
- Jan. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- Winter 2022
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3333333333333333
- Tags
- Search, AI, Recommendation System
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- database infrastructure and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- sql engine for search and ai retrieval
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No ShapedQL is a distributed search and recommendation SQL engine with real-time feedback loops and vector similarity, requiring low-level systems engineering.
What it would actually take: This requires building a custom query engine and planner (e.g., in Rust/C++ atop Apache Arrow or DataFusion) supporting hybrid vector and relational retrieval at sub-50ms latencies. It involves streaming event ingestion (Kafka/Flink) to continuously update continuous ranking models (two-tower models, GNNs) based on user interaction feedback. Developing this necessitates distributed database engineers and ML infrastructure specialists.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 106 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #68 of 107 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 90 days after the earliest competitor.
- ShapedQL · hn · 2026-01-27 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- DeepSQL · hn · 2026-07-20 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Sqlsure · hn · 2026-07-11 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- XQL, a query language for screening market data · hn · 2026-07-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- JevSDSQL · github · 2026-09-23 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Scaffold a BigQuery and dbt and Cube project an AI agent can operate · hn · 2026-06-30 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Relational-to-KV · hn · 2026-08-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Pglens · hn · 2026-03-29 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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