BeaconFind
Find files, photos and recordings by what's inside them
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BeaconFind finds files by what is inside them, not by their names. Describe a document, a scanned page, a screenshot or a photo and it turns up, by meaning, in 50+ languages and 70+ file types. Since July it also sees and hears: a map of your photos, and on the Balanced and Max tiers people in photos (opt-in) and search inside audio and video with clickable transcripts. The AI runs on your Windows PC or Apple Silicon Mac. Now in the Mac App Store; 14-day trial on the website.
PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 4%) · 0 views
Niche: multimedia and records search engines · 74 launches, 4 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Privacy
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More like this: all 74 launches in multimedia and records search engines →
Could you build this?
Partial The interface and the search layer are buildable, using off-the-shelf embedding and OCR/transcription models. Reliable content understanding across 70+ file types and 50+ languages, plus privacy-preserving indexing at scale, needs substantial engineering and tuning beyond vibe coding alone.
What it would actually take: A realistic stack is a local or cloud indexer with per-format extractors (OCR, speech-to-text, document parsers), multilingual embedding models, and a vector store with hybrid keyword search. The hard parts are retrieval quality across many formats and languages, and handling large libraries efficiently without leaking sensitive files. That calls for an experienced search and ML engineer and a fair amount of compute for indexing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 110 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 111 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 164 days after the earliest competitor.
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- lazyFinds · github · 2026-10-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Branchway · ph · 2026-10-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Lookpix · ph · 2026-11-10 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- DeepDigger · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- beacon: photo pick & sort · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- DigUp · github · 2026-10-08 · 1724 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- DigiSearch: Photo & Doc Search · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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