Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Amazon-like product recommendation engine to power open-source eComm
Hi HN! I wanted to share our product search and recommendation engine that we’ve built for our eCommerce api startup - Rye. For context, Rye lets people query and dropship products from almost any Shopify and Amazon store. One feature we wanted to have as part of our developer experience was a way for them to search and discover specific products to query. We’ve put together a demo marketplace to showcase the engine. Check it out here: https://search.rye.com/ Here’s a blog that outlines how we built it and how you can to:…
Rye is a product search and recommendation engine for eCommerce developers who query and dropship products from Shopify and Amazon stores. The engine powers a demo marketplace and helps developers discover and search… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Amazon-like product recommendation engine to power open-source eComm launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The easiest way to add checkout and shopping data to any app
2022 · rye.com · its alternatives →
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A couple of years ago, I had an interesting idea. What if there was a marketplace where all the underlying tech was open-source? The order management system, the storefront, customer support, etc. The marketplace would simply connect to the seller’s infra instead of locking them in. If, for some reason, the seller is removed from the marketplace, their software stays with them and they can continue accepting orders directly. This model can be used to disrupt any marketplace from AirBNB to UberEats: building tech for home renters and restaurants and later, leveraging that to build a competing…
2022 · openship.org · its alternatives →
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Hey, HN! You probably know that the ordering of products on Amazon, posts in FB, and search results in Google is personalized for each visitor, as it directly affects conversion, click rate and engagement. But not everyone can afford to hire an army of PhDs to squeeze every penny out of the ranking, and not everyone agrees on the current (im)balance between privacy and profits. So we built Metarank, an open-source and privacy-focused personalization engine. It can rerank in real-time any type of content, using only the data you allow, and optimize metrics you define. We made a lot of…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The site hit #1 on HN about a year ago. Got enough traffic that I turned it into a proper API. What's there: - REST API — 35k products, manually filterable by category, free key, 60 req/min - CLI — npx anycrap random -c food - faker.js plugin — bundled, no API call, works offline - HuggingFace dataset — full 35k rows for ML/training https://anycrap.shop/developers
2025 · anycrap.shop · its alternatives →
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2019 · kerkour.fr · its alternatives →
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I'd like to invite everyone to try out DontBeEvil.rip, an experimental search engine for developers. tl;dr $ alias rip="curl -G -H 'Accept: text/plain' --url https://dontbeevil.rip/search --data-urlencode " $ rip 'q=Heartbleed bug' DontBeEvil.rip is a year long experiment to see if a small team can build a developer-focused search engine that is self-sustaining on $10 monthly subscriptions. It works by only indexing high-quality resources that are relevant to developers. You won't get useless listicles because we'll never crawl them. Relevant urls are harvested from HN,…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Embed and encourage PH reviews into your product
2017 · its alternatives →
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Flexible hosted recommendation API with programmatic control
2021 · algolia.com · its alternatives →
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AdNabu 2.0▲203AI-powered Shopify App to optimize Google Shopping Feed
2023 · adnabu.com · its alternatives →
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Personalize the shopping experience with OpenWidget and AI
2023 · openwidget.com · its alternatives →
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Turn Your Shopify / Wix Store Into a Dropshipping Business
2015 · modalyst.co · its alternatives →
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Open source recommendation engine on Spark + Elasticsearch
2015 · templates.prediction.io · its alternatives →
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MorphL + Shopify▲180Use AI & ML to personalize experiences & accelerate growth
2020 · apps.shopify.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all! I'm building these collection of APIs to help query SERP, PDP and Reviews data from Ecommerce sites solo since the past few years. I have hundreds of customers and revenue. ScrapingBee (a popular scraping API service) has started copying me now so I thought of doing a Show HN finally. Please butcher my product. I'd really appreciate your feedback. Do reach out via email if you'd like extra free credits, will add them to your account if your email address doesn't look like spam.
2024 · docs.unwrangle.com · its alternatives →
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Bringing instant search results to 300K+ store owners
2016 · community.algolia.com · its alternatives →
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Generate recommendations using collaborative filtering - asmuth/recommendify
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Find the right resources for your Ecommerce site
2019 · magenticians.com · its alternatives →
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Boost eComm sales with interactive product recommendations
2018 · outgrow.co · its alternatives →
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Guesswork▲97Product recommendation engine for first time buyers
2014 · guesswork.co · its alternatives →
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