---
title: "Hero Answer"
method: POST
path: "/api/hero-answer"
---

# Hero Answer

`POST /api/hero-answer`

## 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/hero-answer`
- Auth: none declared

Instant deterministic answer for the homepage hero box.

Uses pgvector similarity search + build_verdict() — NO LLM chat calls.
Results are cached by SHA-1 of the lowercased idea for 24 hours.

## Request body

- HeroAnswerRequest
  - `idea` string, required

## 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)