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24 alternatives to A better Reddit search engine to find menswear recommendations

Hey HN Community! We built this simple community search tool that basically allows people to search through thousands of past Reddit threads and tens of thousands of recommendations using tags. It mostly covers a few bigger subreddits like r/BIFL, r/MFA, r/AskMen, r/SkincareAddiction but along the way, I expanded it to include other smaller subreddits too. In addition to filtering by category, power users can also search by -Body Fit (big thigh, long torso) -Occupation (work in retail, teacher, doctor) -Age (18-24, 25-35), Size (height, weight) -Brand comparison (similar…

A search tool that indexes thousands of Reddit threads and tens of thousands of menswear recommendations from communities like r/BIFL, r/MFA, and r/AskMen. Users can filter results by body fit, occupation, age, size… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A better Reddit search engine to find menswear recommendations launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Linkeddit▲618

    The tool actually hit Product Hunt #1 back in February. Since then I’ve added a bunch more on top of the original version. Now you just describe the intent or goal for the leads you want, and it searches based on keywords and a bunch of other signals to surface the best ones for you. I also added a Reddit-powered content writer. Basically, you pick a topic or category, and it pulls the top posts from Reddit, analyzes what made them go viral, and helps you write content using the same patterns. Reddit is super underrated for content. If something blows up there, it almost always spreads to…

    2025 · linkeddit.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2US

    Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do. Here's Paul Graham:…

    2022 · stylometry.net · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, thank you for being a part of the internet we love. We’re Arnav, Mo, Jeremy and we’re building an “Internet for-you page” that recommends blogs and essays based on your interests. Try it here (https://www.browserbuddy.com/)! We love to discover and learn from personal blogs, essays, and articles on the internet. But despite exciting advancements in language modeling, it’s felt harder to discover interesting links from real people. We believe there is untapped potential to use these language models as “curators” rather than “creators”. To explore this, we’re building a…

    Dec 2025 · browserbuddy.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4AS

    Hey all, Last time when we were on HackerNews [1], we received a lot of feedback, and we incorporated most of it. - We have changed our name from grep.help to usegrasp.com - A privacy policy page - Bulk import - Pricing page We are happy to introduce a new feature: a personalized answer search engine that provides direct citations to the content on the page. Demo: https://usegrasp.com/search?q=is+starship+fully+reusable%3F 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510949

    2023 · usegrasp.com · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    We built Valohai LLM for tracking and comparing LLM evaluation results. Whether your evals live in notebooks and spreadsheets, or you're using an observability tool that wasn't built for comparison, this gives you a purpose-built eval comparison dashboard. Run evals with a Python library (pip install valohai-llm), results stream in, and you can compare up to 6 configurations side by side. Group by any dimension (model, category, difficulty) to see where each model excels. It doesn't do tracing or production observability, for now just eval tracking and comparison. What's cool is that you can…

    2020 · valohai.com · its alternatives →

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    Gigabrain▲482

    Automated Reddit research

    2024 · its alternatives →

  7. 7

    Discover products trending on reddit

    2021 · redditbests.com · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    Reverse image search for patterns, clothing, and outfits

    2016 · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    Get size recommendations for online stores w/ AI camera scan

    2023 · its alternatives →

  10. 10FS

    Hi HN! This started late last year as an afternoon project to play around with ElasticSearch, and then I kept thinking of new features I wanted to add. I still have a lot of things I want to build, but now seemed like a good time to put it out there: even if the results aren’t nearly the quality I’d like, I’ve still found it useful and I want to show it off! I’ve been working on it since September 2021, but only in fits and starts. The entire thing runs on a computer in my living room (there’s a picture on the About page); I haven’t done any load testing so we’ll see how it holds up.

    2022 · search.feep.dev · its alternatives →

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    Fitbay▲89

    Discover clothes that fit.

    2014 · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    Fashion Search Chrome Extension

    2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13

    Hey folks, There has been some talk about search engines here so I thought maybe I'd share a new project I'm working on. Built it partly to help me sell my own projects. Still a lot of work to be done but would be happy to get feedback. Very early phase so don't trust your life with it. Cheers --- Edit: if anyone needs a free/no CC account just DM me on https://www.linkedin.com/in/crufter/

    2024 · singulatron.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Excited to share something I've been building recently called CandySearch. I made it to solve a personal pain with a SaaS product I built, which was that we were always monitoring Reddit and Twitter to see if anyone had mentioned keywords indicating they were looking for us. Before, we had to go manually respond to posts, often missing good mention opportunities. Would love for HN folks to try it and let me know what you think!

    2025 · candysearch.vercel.app · its alternatives →

  15. 15UL

    Shopping online can be pretty tedious if you care about the quality of what you are buying. The time it takes can scale pretty proportionally to some combination of the value, relative importance, and complexity of the purchase. I think LLMs can help expedite and personalize the online shopping experience to a degree marketplaces just don't currently provide. I don't think anybody really wants to read the product descriptions of a bunch of products, read reviews, do pairwise product comparisons, and find the best deals across different websites? Or am I wrong? That's why I think this…

    2024 · claros.so · its alternatives →

  16. 16

    Hey folks, Elias here. Excited to unveil my latest project. Why I Built This: Traditional keyword search isn't cutting it. I've used LLM-embeddings to provide more nuanced, relevant results. How It Works: LLM-embedding similarity on curated datasets for semantically similar results. No need to iterate over keywords any more. Current Datasets: - YC Companies - Show HN Posts, - Ask HN Posts - ProductHunt Startups - Github Top 200k Repos Use Cases: - Validate a product idea's existence - Check if someone already Asked HN something - Have fun - search random terms and see what pops up Want to…

    2023 · payperrun.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17SE

    Hey HN! I've been hacking on a project and figured I'd share it with the community. CrowdView is a search engine for niche forums and message boards (MetaFilter, HN, Reddit, and 3000+ forums). Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?". But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great content exists elsewhere. Lots of great information…

    2023 · crowdview.ai · its alternatives →

  18. 18AP

    Hey there HN! I'm Vignesh, and I'm excited to launch Introthem.com — a people search engine that uses facial recognition to provide in-depth, accurate summaries of individuals, assist with HR screening, research prospects, and analyze brands. The Problem: Researching individuals - whether for hiring or personalizing outreach - is a time-consuming challenge. While RAG-based search engines can help summarize someone's online presence, they have significant limitations. When multiple people share the same name, these engines often mix their information together, creating inaccurate profiles.…

    2024 · introthem.com · its alternatives →

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    FitEz▲16

    Size recommendation software for online fashion retailers

    2025 · fitezapp.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20SC

    This is one of those fix a problem you can’t ignore projects. Like most online shoppers, I often found myself frustrated: clothes look great on models but disappoint when I try them on. It’s not the clothes, it’s the body shape mismatch. So, I spent the last few months building TheBodyMatch, a platform where clothes are showcased on models who share your body shape. You get a more relatable and confident shopping experience because seeing is believing, especially when the model reflects you. It’s still early days. Think of this as a beta where feedback is gold. I’d love for you to try it out…

    2024 · thebodymatch.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    I've gotten more and more of these and A. I'm often not interested and B. they upset me more often than not. Since Reddit randomizes class-names and runs recommendations under different names this was more tricky than expected but it works reliably now.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    Organizing clothing data to make it searchable.

    2016 · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    Beauty product recommendations aggregated across reddit

    Feb 2026 · yourstrulymel.co · its alternatives →

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    FitPic▲9

    Hi HN, I've had this on my side project todo list for a while but was waiting until image editing models got good enough to make something that really works. Here's the link: https://fitpic.app At first I just wanted to spend a couple of days having fun building a basic demo but I was so impressed with the results that I decided to spend another week making this into a real product. It's all powered by Google's new Nano Banana/Gemini Flash Image 2.5 model, with the catalog powered by https://trychannel3.com/ (recently on HN) and Google image search. It does…

    2025 · fitpic.app · its alternatives →

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