ProductSearch

It's like ProductHunt's search bar, but smart as Google's

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Product search is a natural language search engine that helps you find the right software you need in seconds and it's powered by ProductHunt's products data.
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AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI
Build voice AI apps with a single API
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Vignesh Warar
Hi Product OG's, Super stoked to share what I've been working on. Searching for software on Google has become a little hit or miss these days. So I rely on ProductHunt Search but every time I use it, I wished it had Google-like natural language support for finding products and that's the reason I built ProductSearch. Product search is a natural language search engine that helps you find the right software you need in seconds and it's powered by ProductHunt's products data. Here's how it works There are a couple of things going on inside that search engine, but I'll try to boil it down to simple points.
  • ℹ️ We collect product info from ProductHunt using their API
  • 🦀 We crawl the internet and look for articles that mention the products from ProductHunt
  • 👩‍💻 We then extract appropriate keywords that are relevant to the product
  • 📜 We build the index out of keywords that are collected
  • Note: Our Index size is small, so you might get some irrelevant results. But I've been working hard to scale the index size! Ranking I've been experimenting with a couple of ranking ideas but one that I've found to be particularly effective is this
  • 🗂️ We only consider links that are organic, meaning they aren't paid for or incentivized
  • ⬇️ The engine sometimes penalizes the products for some keywords, if it has too many sponsored backlinks
  • You'll see on the top right of the site that it says "Built by Grep" Yes, I've been experimenting with a new kind of search engine, but this seemed like a fun problem to solve first. I've been using this site for the past couple of years. I learned a lot from other fellow makers, so consider this my small contribution to ProductHunt and I hope it helps users find products faster. Please feel free to leave any type of feedback. I am happy to answer any questions you may have. Vignesh
    Porush Puri
    @vignestion This is super useful. Great Usecase. Congratulations on the launch!v Looking forward to using Product Search. Kudos to the team.
    Vignesh Warar
    @porush_puri Thanks!
    Vignesh Warar
    @bob_chen2 Thanks so much!
    Ashley Porciuncula
    Congratulations on the launch! Brilliant idea!
    Vignesh Warar
    Davi Nunes
    Thats cool, I always find PH search to be really ineffective, what do you think about building a chrome plugin to replace PH native search (or adds another one)? This way I don't have to remember to go to your site every time I need to search for something here.
    Vignesh Warar
    @davi_nunes Thanks! That's a very good idea. I'll try to do this in the future.
    Julie Chabin
    Ping @kylefrost !!
    Vignesh Warar
    Johan Steneros
    I like it
    Vignesh Warar
    @jsteneros Thanks!
    Brittany Joiner {Britt the Builder}
    Ooh i love this!! This seems so much better than Google, and honestly even cleaner than PH search haha. Love it!
    Vignesh Warar
    @britt_joiner Wow, thanks a ton!
    Dávid Sipos
    Congrats on the launch!
    Vignesh Warar
    @david_sipos1 thank you, Dávid!
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