Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Helishopter - real social shopping
I've posted a few times regarding www.helishopter.com[1] , but I wasn't prepared to really post until we fixed up a few of the styling issues. Now, there are still a lot of bugs and UI issues, but you get the idea.<p>Our mission is:<p>"To be the premier destination for shopping inspiration and product research, by providing intelligent recommendations and tapping into the advice of our users network of social connections"<p>Of course, it will work a lot better once people start building follower/following lists, as one of the central features is to find inspiration by…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Helishopter - real social shopping launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Browser Buddy▲156Hey 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 →
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ChatGPT Shopping▲157Richer, more visually immersive shopping experiences
Apr 2026 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Inspiring Stores▲135Curated web design inspiration from the best online stores.
2020 · shopify.com · its alternatives →
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Hey there HNers, First of all, apologies for the shameless "self-promotion" - just felt like sharing :-) I've just launched a very simple project on the e-commerce front and although I'm currently involved in a few "bigger and bolder" projects, decided to give this a go. It's a DIY e-commerce tool that allows people to setup stores on Facebook, for free. We started this project as a weekend hackathon to help a friend bring her products online and decided to turn it into a product, so there's still definitely a lot to be done. Apart from showing off, this thread is here to start a discussion…
2011 · getnovelo.com · its alternatives →
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Background: I noticed that my better half spent a lot of time searching for the same thing (at the time it was maternity dresses) across a whole load of women's fashion stores online. So I built her a site that lets her search some of the top stores from one site. I have an idea for a few social elements that I want to add to try and make more of a community. Any feedback, tips etc welcome. http://shoplove.co.uk
2011 · shoplove.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Style Advice. Anytime, Anywhere. Powered With ChatGPT.
2023 · cladwell.com · its alternatives →
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Discover and Purchase Celebrity and Designer Fashion
2017 · esbee.net · its alternatives →
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We just released www.hallways.me Hallways (Marketplace) wants to do for shops what Tumblr did for blogs - make it (kickass) easy to open up a shop and start selling on a social marketplace. We're slowly getting the shops onboard but we want to know where and how we can improve! Please send feedback! Thanks you guys rock
2011 · its alternatives →
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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 →
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We’re about to start promoting our coming soon landing pages and wanted to get some feedback from the HN community first. http://soupnextdoor.com - Marketplace for dinner parties We’re running a competition about where our launch will be. This will give us something to promote other than the fact that we’re coming soon and hopefully get some conversation started. We’re looking for feedback across the board. UI, color scheme, browser compatibility issues, problems with our idea, marketing ideas, issues with how we’ve worded things, etc We’ve left Django in debug mode for the time being so if…
2011 · soupnextdoor.com · its alternatives →
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smrt.shopping - a smart shopping list that automatically categorizes things you add by the area they'll be in the store. It saves all data in localstorage. No signup needed. Nothing to install. Just go to the URL and use it. I decided at the start of the year I was going to build one barebones MVP per month, then move on to the next thing. I built this in January (over a few evenings) and then iterated a little during February, in between working on the second MVP. I have a bunch of ideas about improvements to make, but I'm trying to limit myself to the brief - simplest MVP, push it out…
2025 · smrt.shopping · its alternatives →
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If you guys are interested in high-quality food products please let me know what you think of my website prototype. 1)Do you understand immediately what the site is about? 2)Is it easy enough to understand how it works? 3)If ready to roll in your neighborhood would you be interested in subscribing to a service like this? I am in the process of getting a closed-beta off the ground in Brooklyn and I am really interested in all kinds of feedback about the idea, the design, UX. Thanks. http://www.the-local-kitchen.com
2012 · the-local-kitchen.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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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…
2022 · reddrecs.com · its alternatives →
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I'm working on a self-hosted search service called Hister with the goal to reduce my dependence on online search engines. Hister is basically a full text indexer for websites which saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. It provides a flexible web (and terminal) search interface & query language to explore previously visited content with ease or quickly fall back to traditional search engines. I've been using it for more than a month now and as my local index is growing I can avoid opening google/duckduckgo more and more frequently. The project is still heavily under…
Feb 2026 · hister.org · its alternatives →
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Wanted to get everyone's feedback on the web app my startup has been working on for the past few months. (didn't want to tweak it anymore before getting feedback from viewers who weren't my friends/family). http://www.foodia.com Would definitely love feedback on the UX (which needs work) and whether this is something you'd use before shopping/deciding what to buy. I'd also love to hear what food problems (if any) you all feel need solving. Thanks.
2011 · foodia.com · its alternatives →
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We've just launched Blink Ai, a platform that leverages AI to enhance the online shopping experience. The system analyzes product information, reviews, and pricing data to provide personalized recommendations and help users make more informed purchasing decisions. Key features: Natural language product search and comparison Price history tracking and deal alerts Review sentiment analysis and summarization Personalized recommendations based on user preferences Cross-platform shopping assistant This is our initial release, and we'd appreciate any feedback from the HN community on…
2023 · blinkai.shop · its alternatives →
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Ranked options + Reddit sentiment for any purchase.
Jul 2026 · thedecisionhub.com · its alternatives →
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