AI · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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   Agora API▲377

   Hi HN! I'm building Agora, an AI search engine for e-commerce that returns results in under 300ms. We've indexed 30M products and made them easy to purchase. Think of a decentralized Amazon. We've been working on an API that enables developers to embed our product data, search, purchasing, and order tracking functionality into their own app. We currently have 100k stores in the index and recrawl the entire dataset once every 24 hours. I'd love your feedback.

   2025 · searchagora.com · its alternatives →

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   Agora Merchants▲234

   AI search engine that helps e-commerce stores sell more

   2024 · its alternatives →

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   I indexed 25,000 Shopify stores to build an embedded shopping API▲9

   Hi HN! I’m working on Agora, an AI search engine for e-commerce products. Excited to launch the Agora API that helps other developers embed shopping experiences into their app. We provide endpoints to search, purchase, and track products sold on 25,000 different Shopify and WooCommerce stores. Early customers are building social shopping apps, marketplaces, and AI shopping assistants. I’d love your feedback!

   2025 · developer.searchagora.com · its alternatives →

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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 →

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   E-commerce data from 100k stores that is refreshed daily▲15

   Hi HN! I'm building Agora, an AI search engine for e-commerce that returns results in under 300ms. We've indexed 30M products from 100k stores and made them easy to purchase using AI agents. After launching here on HN, a large enterprise reached out to pay for access to the raw data. We serviced the contract manually to learn the exact workflow and then decided to productize the "Data Connector" to help us scale to more customers. The Data Connector enables developers to select any of our 100k stores in the index, view sample data, format the output, and export the up-to-date data. Data can…

   2025 · searchagora.com · its alternatives →

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   Agora▲74

   A decentralized MarketPlace built on BlockStack

   2019 · its alternatives →

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   Agora▲68

   Tool to compare products on Amazon & more

   2014 · agora.sh · its alternatives →

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   Overlead▲146

   Here's the problem: I launched two products. I wrote blog posts. I posted on X, built in public. I tried running ads. And you know what actually got me customers? Replying to someone on Reddit who asked, "What's the best tool for this?" One reply. Three signups. I felt like an idiot for not doing it sooner. But here's the issue: I don't have time to refresh Reddit all day looking for these posts. I have products to build. Bugs to fix. Emails to answer. Life to live. So I built Overlead to do the searching for me. Overlead scans Reddit, Quora, and Hacker News (and many more to come) for…

   Feb 2026 · overlead.co · its alternatives →

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   Grigora▲74

   Hello HN, I'm Karan, and after a hack wiped out my blog and revenue ($15-20k/month), I was propelled to create Grigora.co. Our beta platform is designed to be a secure, straightforward alternative to WordPress, addressing the pain points I faced as a blogger. With 165 users exploring Grigora and zero paid customers so far, we're eager to evolve. We invite the HN community to test Grigora.co, share feedback, and join us in this mission to streamline web security and functionality. Looking forward to your insights, Karan

   1d ago · grigora.co · its alternatives →

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    Emra▲65

    Hey HN, I'm really excited to share Emra with you. The yc description would be: It's like "Notion meets Lovable". It's a workspace where you build full apps using AI and every app sits on one shared database and service layer. Generated apps are always editable, and (coming soon:) can interact with each other in the workspace. I'm of the opinion that the cost of software will go rapidly to zero (I don't think that's too surprising to any of you), but there will always be room for effort and creativity. Emra is essentially built for the future where every person is a developer. Essentially…

    Jan 2026 · emra.app · its alternatives →

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    Agora: Sell Files on the Web▲75

    2021 · agora.download · its alternatives →

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    Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted▲49

    Hello HN, I am the founder of Agora Cosmica. This started about three years ago. On a walk I asked a chatbot to interpret the cave dream from Cormac McCarthy's book "The Road" as C.G. Jung. It gave me a perspective I had not thought of. But for my own dreams the policies of the big providers felt wrong for so personal conversations, as zero data retention is not available. So I started building. The project evolved to a German nonprofit and we published the code (AGPL-3.0) last month. The content is still copyright, but will be opened to CC-BY 4.0 in the next 6 to 12 months. Agora Cosmica is…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We used investor tools to find the best startups to work at▲29

    hey y'all -- can you please tell us if our job search tool sucks? :D we built it using an investor platform called Harmonic.ai to gather startup data, then contextualize it so that job seekers could find out about the most exciting startups hiring first (like if they just raised, growing headcount fast, have an ex-unicorn founder, etc). pretty sure we're the first platform doing anything like this. anyway, let me know what you think. really excited to launch this thing soon! getting feedback from the hn community first is really fun :)

    2022 · joinmaasive.com · its alternatives →

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    Agora▲13

    I created Agora as a passion project to encourage myself to explore more on the web, write about what I found interesting and share them with my friends. With web development becoming more accessible, I hope that the web becomes more decentralized meaning that more people explore the web outside of the mega-platforms that exist today. Would appreciate feedback and people trying it out! There's an optional side panel Chrome extension that allows you to create and see posts people have made about the webpage you're currently on. I also just built out a feature where you are able to make…

    2024 · agora-web.io · its alternatives →

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    A new search engine for finding leads▲37

    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 →

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    We built an AI Website builder with better output▲8

    Hey HN, After GPT-3 created waves in the tech industry, a lot of AI tools were emerging and with that, some AI website builders But the results seemed way too generic to us. It felt like the developers were rushing to catch the wave instead of building a proper tool We took our time, did months of RnD and finally came up with something better than what others in the market are doing. It’s got better design output. While it’s still in beta, I wanted to show HN what we did. Will appreciate the feedback when you guys try it out. Here is the link to signup for the beta:…

    2024 · dorik.com · its alternatives →

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    Amazon Associates Dashboard Pro▲11

    Hi HN, I’m working on a small side project: a browser extension related to Amazon Associates workflows. I shared an early version recently and got some helpful input, so over the last days I focused on cleaning up the UI, improving performance, and expanding regional support. This is still very early (week two since launch), and I’m mainly trying to learn whether the problem I’m solving is real for others, how clear the value proposition is, and where the UX could be improved. I’m especially interested in feedback around product direction rather than growth or marketing. If anyone is willing…

    Nov 2025 · aadp.agilehero.com.br · its alternatives →

18. 18IM
    I'm Building Ahrefs for AI Search Results▲9

    AI search results are quickly becoming more important than SEO, but as businesses, we have no visibility over it! That's why I'm building "Ahrefs for AI search results". Track keyword performance on AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity & more

    2025 · linrush.com · its alternatives →

19. 19WS
    Worldwide Startup Search Engine▲6

    Hi HN, We are building a search engine to help founders, investors, and early adopters to easily discover startups from all over the world. Discovering startups - whether it is a potential competitor, to validate an idea or as part of a DD process - is a difficult and time-consuming process. We believe that many existing platforms require expensive subscriptions and general-purpose search engines often do not give a complete enough picture. To solve this problem, we are releasing a free-to-use search engine (with a relatively generous daily limit on search volume). No sign-up is required. We…

    2023 · symonda.com · its alternatives →

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    Keenable – A different web search API for AI agentsfree tier, from $0.004/mo▲12

    Hey HN! We built https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keenable.ai, a different web search API for AI agents. Keenable searches our own 100B+ page index. We are focused on low cost and latency (p95 <250ms from us-east). We don’t believe in benchmaxxing, so we open-sourced our internal benchmarking suite, NEEDLE (available at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keenableai.github.io&#x2F;needle): a live benchmark that compares Keenable with other search APIs on fresh agent-like queries. I spent seven years at Amazon as a scientist working on web grounding for Alexa&#x2F;AGI, and my co-founder Andrey previously led search at…

    Aug 2026 · keenable.ai · its alternatives →

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    Jello SEO▲11

    I was watching Deep Research do hours of research in minutes and thought why the hell am I still manually clicking through Ahrefs trying to guess what keywords to check? So I built an AI that does keyword research the same way. The problem with traditional keyword tools is they assume you already know what to look for. But I'd sit there thinking "okay I'm building a developer tool... do I search for 'API monitoring'? 'webhook debugging'? 'API testing'?" Then I'd spend an hour going down rabbit holes and miss the fact that "Postman alternative open source" or something like that gets 2k…

    2025 · jelloseo.com · its alternatives →

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    A Directory of 500 HN Side Projects▲15

    I loved this recent "Show and Tell" thread about side projects posted on HN: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42373343 It inspired me to build a mini directory that aggregates over 500 side projects posted to HN since 2017. You can filter by year, category, or revenue level. Thank you Cursor + Next.js for making this insanely fun to build. Hopefully you discover hidden gems or find inspiration in what the HN community is creating. Happy browsing!

    2024 · hnsideprojects.com · its alternatives →

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    CandySearch▲8

    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 →

24. 24UO
    Update on my startup - very overdue.▲13

    When I see what some HN members have done in a weekend on their projects, it makes it hard to confess that it has taken us 1 year to get to this stage. I kept trying to make things perfect, but finally I have seen the light - it will never be perfect and even in its current state, I see so much we need to improve, but it's something. Instead of delaying even more, I thought I would release it to the best critics out there - HN say hello to MyProperty.com Hope to hear your feedback, criticism, thoughts.

    2011 · its alternatives →

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