Show HN: YC idea matcher – Submit an idea and get a list of similar YC companies

Posted by thisismahmoud_ on Friday August 04, 2023 @12:15PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://yc-idea-matcher.vercel.app/

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

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Re:Show HN: YC idea matcher – Submit an idea and get a list ... by DamonHD on Friday August 04, 2023 @12:26PM (#37002190)

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.

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Re:Show HN: YC idea matcher – Submit an idea and get a list ... by SlickStef11 on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:57PM (#37004276)

Ideas are worthless. Execution is what matters

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Re:Show HN: YC idea matcher – Submit an idea and get a list ... by DamonHD on Friday August 04, 2023 @04:41PM (#37005587)

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

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Re:Show HN: YC idea matcher – Submit an idea and get a list ... by pocketarc on Friday August 04, 2023 @04:56PM (#37005769)

> 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.

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Re:Show HN: YC idea matcher – Submit an idea and get a list ... by AnnaMere on Sunday August 06, 2023 @09:21AM (#37021623)

Built one here:

Qocial.com - Social Media Network

Thanks for good luck

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Re:Show HN: YC idea matcher – Submit an idea and get a list ... by nnurmanov on Saturday August 05, 2023 @03:11AM (#37009735)

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

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Re:Show HN: YC idea matcher – Submit an idea and get a list ... by eetus on Friday August 04, 2023 @12:58PM (#37002646)

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.

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Re:Show HN: YC idea matcher – Submit an idea and get a list ... by divbzero on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:08PM (#37003590)

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

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

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Re:Show HN: YC idea matcher – Submit an idea and get a list ... by tikkun on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:45PM (#37004112)

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.

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Re:Show HN: YC idea matcher – Submit an idea and get a list ... by raoufchebri on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:51PM (#37004188)

Awesome idea! like the UI

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Re:Show HN: YC idea matcher – Submit an idea and get a list ... by SlickStef11 on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:57PM (#37004270)

This is awesome! Love it.

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Re:Show HN: YC idea matcher – Submit an idea and get a list ... by imgildev on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:13PM (#37024903)

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

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