ShapedQL
The SQL engine for search, feeds, and AI agents
ShapedQL launched on January 27, 2026 with 211 votes, #130 of 14,585 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
What it does
Stop gluing Pinecone, Redis, and Python scripts together. ShapedQL is the SQL engine for relevance - powering "For You" feeds, Search, and RAG memory in minutes. It compiles simple SQL into real-time ranking pipelines that retrieve, filter, score, and reorder results based on live user behavior. Replace thousands of lines of infra with 30 lines of SQL. With native multi-modal embeddings and automated MLOps, ShapedQL helps you build real-time decisions, not just document retrieval.
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Hi HN, I’m Tullie, founder of Shaped. Previously, I was a researcher at Meta AI, worked on ranking for Instagram Reels, and was a contributor to PyTorch Lightning. We built ShapedQL because we noticed that while retrieval (finding 1,000 items) has been commoditized by vector DBs, ranking (finding the best 10 items) is still an infrastructure problem. To build a decent for you feed or a RAG system with long-term memory, you usually have to put together a vector DB (Pinecone/Milvus), a feature store (Redis), an inference service, and thousands of lines of Python to handle business logic…
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