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Show HN: YC idea matcher – Submit an idea and get a list of similar YC companies (yc-idea-matcher.vercel.app)
36 points by thisismahmoud_ on Aug 4, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments
This project uses semantic search, an advanced search technique that aims to understand the intent and context behind a search query instead of just matching keywords.

It's built using Neon Postgres + pg_embedding and OpenAI for generating embeddings. More details can be found in the repo https://github.com/neondatabase/yc-idea-matcher




Typing novel and potentially valuable ideas into such an 'app' seems not much wiser than 'testing' your credit card number that we saw a few weeks ago.


Ideas are worthless. Execution is what matters


Feel free to list all yours here that you haven't had chance to implement yet, or maybe just the top 5 or so?


> Search Engine > Social Media Network > Computer Company > Ad Network > Video Streaming Service

All amazing multi-billion dollar ideas, I guarantee it. Feel free to steal them.


Built one here:

Qocial.com - Social Media Network

Thanks for good luck


When idea is boring, even good execution may not help. An interesting idea is like tailwind, it helps to acquire followers easier


This provided an entertaining five minutes of entering silly company ideas to see what matches. Yeah, I wouldn't enter anything I'd remotely want to pursue.


This uses the /embeddings API endpoint that OpenAI released last year:

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-text-and-code-embeddings


Including the popup of how it works is neat! Edit: And I realize now it's also nice marketing - and I think it's tastefully done, too.


The project looks amazing can you post some examples of how to best use this project?


Awesome idea! like the UI


This is awesome! Love it.




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