---
title: "Companies Similar"
method: POST
path: "/api/companies/similar"
---

# Companies Similar

`POST /api/companies/similar`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.exploreyc.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.exploreyc.com/api/companies/similar`
- Auth: none declared

All-source semantic search: return companies across every source most similar
to a free-text query, deduped by domain. Vector search spans the full corpus
(YC + Hacker News + a16z + ...), unlike the YC-scoped hero idea-validator.

## Request body

- SimilarQuery
  - `query` string, required
  - `limit` integer

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/exploreyc/apis/yc-company-scraper-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/exploreyc/apis/yc-company-scraper-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/exploreyc/apis/yc-company-scraper-api/revisions/d48bd3e241b8?raw)