Nicola Alessi

Problem: Finding honest product recommendations online is a nightmare: 🔸 72% of Google’s first-page results are ads 🔸 42% of Amazon reviews are unreliable 🔸 15+ minutes wasted per search Solution: Lumigo is an AI-powered search engine that: ✅ Bans all ads and sponsored results ✅ Explains every recommendation (sources: blogs, Reddit, trusted reviews) Why It Works: Week-over-Week Growth: Week 1:...

After years of absence from the start-up world, I embarked on this new path that led me to the creation of Lumigo, an AI-based product search engine that helps you find the best products by checking the data on various websites (reviews, reddit posts, etc.) in seconds and returns only the most suitable products for your needs without the tedious ads on Google. Having only done one product hunt...

Let’s face it: searching for products online is a mess. You type in a query, and what do you get? A wall of ads, followed by ‘best of’ lists that feel more like affiliate marketing than honest recommendations. I’ve spent hours scrolling through irrelevant results, only to end up on a Reddit thread from 2018. Sound familiar? The problem isn’t the tech—it’s the business model. Search engines...

We still have a long way to go, but our intention is to give young people the opportunity to have fun shopping online (how boring are marketplaces? 🤮), while doing good for the planet and ensuring 100% secure transactions. We have decided to do this through the use of different technologies: - Automated calculation of the CO2e of all products on the platform -> The value derived indicates the...