I built a social-first search(X, Reddit, TikTok) cause Google is boring
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bluhe is a social-first search engine, know what people are saying on X, Reddit, Tiktok, YT, Instagram & Facebook.
HN · launched Jun 9, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: vertical search engines and directories · 98 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -46% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial While the UI and search wrapper are straightforward, reliably scraping and aggregating real-time content across X, TikTok, Reddit, and Instagram requires handling aggressively anti-scraping platforms and costly APIs.
What it would actually take: Building a reliable cross-social search engine requires integrating official developer APIs (which are heavily restricted and expensive, especially for X and Reddit) or operating a robust fleet of residential proxies with headless browser farms to bypass Cloudflare and Datadome bot detection. The backend would need an ingestion pipeline using Kafka, an inverted index / vector database like Elasticsearch or Qdrant for semantic search, and deduplication algorithms to handle high-frequency social feeds.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google
Concerns raised: Results from APIs directly without independent indexing, Doesn't circumvent censorship/downranking from platforms, Unclear where non-API results come from, Depends on third-party APIs rather than independent index
Feature requests: Independent index instead of API-dependent results, Re-rank results to bypass platform censorship
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 129 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #122 of 130 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 199 days after the earliest competitor.
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