alvarome
Re:Show HN: I scraped 200M Shopify products to build a search engine
on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:03AM (#39465901)
Makes sense, so you will basically focus on discovery of e-commerce products which would then allow you to "sell" traffic to merchants?
On the user strategy side, hope that works, if you can get the viral loops going and constant organic traffic, this could be a success.
I'll get back to you if I come up with any ideas which can help!
Re:Show HN: I scraped 200M Shopify products to build a search engine
on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:46AM (#39465075)
Love to see that you have posted again, I commented on your post last time!
I have two main questions here.
Firstly, why would Shopify or Woocommerce not build this themselves? And secondly, how do you intend to drive traffic to the web? I can see how you will solve the search function at scale, but I see a bigger hurdle in driving initial traffic to the site
Re:Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine
on Thursday December 14, 2023 @10:09AM (#38642152)
I'm a Shopify store owner myself. I saw there is a $99 per month to get your product verified, how would this compete in terms of CPC with a traditional channel such as google ads or meta ads?
Re:Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine
on Thursday December 14, 2023 @09:53AM (#38641981)
If you check the "about" section you can see how many merchants were added, over 640k at the moment
Re:Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine
on Thursday December 14, 2023 @09:51AM (#38641948)
It looks like from the "become a merchant" you can directly boost your products which I assume will prioritize them and hence drive more traffic to your Shopify store
Re:Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine
on Thursday December 14, 2023 @09:50AM (#38641940)
It looks like from the "become a merchant" you can directly boost your products which I assume will prioritize them and hence drive more traffic to your Shopify store