Show HN: Product Substitutes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15533444

by ggiaco • 9 years ago

3 1 9 years ago

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ggiaco• 9 years ago

Search for the top alternatives for over 40k B2B software products.

We're doing a couple of things here that this community might find interesting:

A) Actually tracking when companies start and stop using a piece of software

B) Using this "switch" data to calculate a probability that the switches are a true substitution and then rank the top substitutes for reach product - based on actual switching behavior.  We use a weighted average where the switches are weighted according to how much the product’s categories overlap (every product is tagged with 1-5 tags). For example, Intercom and Drift are closely related so when a company stops using Intercom and starts using Drift that's heavily weighted. However, a percentage of the companies who stop using Intercom and then start using Zendesk are effectively substituting Intercom with Zendesk.

- You can use search to find a product, or start with the ones below:

https://siftery.com/intercom/alternatives https://siftery.com/mandrill/alternatives https://siftery.com/shopify/alternatives https://siftery.com/wordpress/alternatives https://siftery.com/lever/alternatives https://siftery.com/icims/alternatives  

Note: There's switch data for roughly 1k products (out of a total of 40k)

Show HN: Product Substitutes

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