[karsinkk]

Is it just me or is anyone else having a tough time trying to wade through all the jargon to figure out what this is actually about?

[laurent123456]

It's alternativeto.com but with a few differences.

[xanth]

My first thought was there are now 15 competing standards, I hope at least this is semantic web or at least scrape friendly.

[tyingq]

"at least scrape friendly"

Decidedly not. If you disable javascript for a search, you get a mostly empty page back.

The results themselves do come from an api at benchmarker.fr, but it wants a bearer token.

[D2man]

We provide an open search route API :

https://benchmarker.fr/opensearch?q={searchTerms}

You can then configure a redirection folowing these guidelines:

  <Url type="text/html" template="https://alternative-a.com/en/search">
    <Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
    <!-- other Params if you need them… -->
    <Param name="view" value="list"/>
    <Param name="sort" value='["reduction","DESC"]'/>
  </Url>

Can you precise, why would you scrape Alternative? Your answer will help us define the next priorities.

[D2man]

That's true, we build Alternative knowing the advantages and drawbacks of the market. Besides data, we tried to build tools that help you to make your choices. We relied on scraped data and reviews.

[tyingq]

Search for software and alternatives to named software.

Here's the results of a search for "Trello":

https://alternative-a.com/en/search?q=trello&view=list&sort=...

[D2man]

Sorry for that, I tried to be as clear as possible. May I help you ?

Can you precise which jargon ?

[gk1]

I think the issue is grammar, not jargon. There are many grammar mistakes which make it difficult to understand. I recommend you check the text through Grammarly, or ask someone for help reviewing the text.

[D2man]

Sorry for my poor english ! I'll ckeck grammarly

[gk1]

At the very least I recommend fixing the headline to avoid confusion:

Introducing Alternative, the community-powered search engine for software

[D2man]

On your advice, I have edited the title.

[cutemonster]

Agreed, I was confused too

[btbuildem]

No idea what this service? product? vaporvare? does..

[D2man]

You can use Alternative now. It's an online service. More we are to share our knowledge on Alternative faster you will find your software.

Have you tried it?

[btbuildem]

Not to be flippant, but I _still_ don't know what it does. Am I just ignorant of current trends? Does the name provide enough information that folks will immediately know what it is?

Honestly, a short paragraph describing what it does would be really helpful.

Some of your target audience may be the "poke around spend time finding out what it does" type. But another swathe could be of the "tell me what this is before I spend any time looking at it" sort.

[D2man]

Alternative store data, provided by the community, about the software and online service market.

With these data, Alternative helps to select your future software.

You can start from a similar software search or a functionality search and then reduce the results list to a shortlist of 3 candidates using the tools we provide.

Does it sound clearer? :)

[btbuildem]

Thanks! Yes, that explains it well.