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Hello HN!We're building a single search/browse API interface to thousands of ecommerce stores (hopefully, eventually, all of them). Inspired by Shopify's https://shop.dev, we embedded a WASM bridge of our CLI in our website.The idea is to provide an efficient commerce interface for agents; personal assistants (Instinct et al) or otherwise. The alternatives are to build a crawling system / Firecrawl, use an LLM search api (Exa, Parallel etc) or use embedded headless browsers. Collective action by brands/retailers to implement agentic-protocols (UCP, ACP etc) is unlikely; so we're doing it for them.Surprisingly, despite our coverage list being smaller than Shopify's and the search endpoint being slower (~3k ms for p90; because there is JEV and/or LLM to convert free form search to facets) the search results are often subjectively better:``` storerouter search 'gold frame pink tint sunglasses' --facet category_path.depth_3=sunglasses --facet temple_color=gold --facet lens_color=pink --facet eyewear_frame_material=metal ```vs Shop.dev's: ``` shop search 'gold frame pink tint sunglasses' --category gid://shopify/TaxonomyCategory/aa-2-27 # dropped facet temple_color=temple_color__gold (no Shopify filter) # dropped facet lens_color=lens_color__pink (no Shopify filter) # dropped facet eyewear_frame_material=eyewear_frame_material__metal (no Shopify filter) # category 'sunglasses' → Apparel & Accessories > Clothing Accessories > Sunglasses ```

HN · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views

Niche: shopify store management apps · 144 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -47% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Retail & commerce
  • Agent / copilot
  • Developer
  • AI feature
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Partial A CLI and REST wrapper over a product search API is easy to build. Covering thousands of ecommerce stores with fresh, normalized product data is the hard part.

What it would actually take: The interface layer is a standard CLI, REST API, and SDKs. The real version needs a large crawling and extraction pipeline that handles anti-bot defenses, many differing site structures, schema normalization, and freshness updates. That requires distributed scraping infrastructure, proxy networks, and data-engineering expertise at significant cost.

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Launched 357 days after the earliest competitor.

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