Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops
Details
- External ID
- 48752905
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops
- Website domain
- workerowned.info
- Launched
- July 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 398
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.989247311827957
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Retail & commerce
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- directory of worker-owned cooperative products
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard directory website with search and filter capabilities on top of a relational database or search index (e.g., Algolia, Meilisearch).
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: REI (worker/customer-owned cooperative model), Whole Foods (natural food retail alternative), Migros and Coop (European supermarket co-ops), Associated Press, Blue Diamond, Cabot Creamery, Land O'Lakes, Welch's, Sunkist (producer co-ops)
Concerns raised: Farmers retain only 1-10% of retail price even with ethical/co-op labels, Access to capital is major challenge for forming co-ops, Most customer co-ops didn't survive against large commercial natural food stores, Interface assumes US location (City and State only), Worker compensation still doesn't fully offset retail margins
Feature requests: Browse by product categories instead of stores, Add favicon icons to product/store lists for visual differentiation, Support international locations beyond USA, Show development and infrastructure details
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Launched 232 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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