I built a social-first search(X, Reddit, TikTok) cause Google is boring
Details
- External ID
- 48464437
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I built a social-first search(X, Reddit, TikTok) cause Google is boring
- Website domain
- bluhe.ai
- Launched
- June 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12568306010928962
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
bluhe is a social-first search engine, know what people are saying on X, Reddit, Tiktok, YT, Instagram & Facebook.
Enrichment
- Theme
- social video scrapers and downloaders
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- social media search engine
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 64 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #61 of 65 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 173 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.