Versus

Find popular alternatives to anything in a jiffy

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Find popular alternatives to anything in a jiffy

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When I am exploring alternatives to a product or service, I often to go Google, type "[product] vs ", and just see what it autocompletes. That usually tells me the most popular competitors. If I want to be thorough I'll do the same for the competitors, etc. This tool just does that automatically for you.

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Wow @jasoncrawford - I built http://lesikidev.com/Versus.js/ a few years back. Same functionality, implemented the same way, and pretty much the same name (just realised though that the autocomplete API I used must have been retired, getting 404s). I don't mean for it to sound accusatory, I'm just impressed that someone else's mind worked a lot like mine! Good stuff 🥂

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7yr ago

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@sitatik Haha, cool!

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7yr ago

Not sure it's working correctly. I tried "Mac" as my search term and it suggested Windows was a possible alternative. No

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7yr ago

@steve1215 Classic lol !

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7yr ago

Product Hunt

Simple! How are you sourcing these alternatives, @jasoncrawford?

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7yr ago

Versus

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@rrhoover It literally uses Google autocomplete

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7yr ago

Olvy

@rrhoover @jasoncrawford Woah that's cool!

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7yr ago

@rrhoover @jasoncrawford Hahahahaha 👌

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7yr ago

Damn, this is freaking genius! 👏🏻 👏🏻 🌟 😍 Such a simple idea, minimal design, and it works great! Suggestion: currently, when you click one of the alternatives, you get a Google search result for the alternative alone. Would be cool to have a second link that says "compare to {original query}" which would do a Google search for "{alternative} vs {original}" That would accomplish two things: 1. Let the user easily compare the services 2. Find more relevant results Let me clarify the second one: when you search for alternatives to Mailchimp, you get one called "espresso". Click on it and you get Google search results for "espresso" alone, which are completely irrelevant.

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7yr ago