WarpGrep: A 20x faster subagent to grep for code
50% faster than Cognition's SWE-grep - improve Claude Code or Codex via MCP
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YC · launched Nov 28, 2025 · 17 upvotes (top 81%) · 0 views
Niche: developer utility tools · 561 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Developer Tools
- Generative AI
- API
- AI
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Could you build this?
No WarpGrep relies on custom-trained/fine-tuned inference models and low-level kernel optimizations running on dedicated GPU clusters for ultra-fast parallel code search.
What it would actually take: Building WarpGrep requires fine-tuning specialized lightweight models for code search and AST retrieval, combined with custom GPU inference engines (e.g., vLLM or custom CUDA/Triton kernels) optimized for extreme token throughput and sub-second TTFT (Time To First Token). It also requires massive pre-tokenized repository indexing infrastructure capable of searching millions of lines of code in milliseconds.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3234 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2567 of 3235 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 29 days after the earliest competitor.
- Graft · hn · 2026-08-14 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Mgrep · hn · 2025-11-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- jegrep · github · 2026-09-19 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Capn-hook for coding agents · hn · 2026-07-12 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- claude-codex-loop · github · 2026-10-18 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Hybrid Semantic Grep for Claude Code · hn · 2026-02-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Grev · hn · 2026-09-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Lmux · hn · 2026-11-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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