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Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops

Shown by IESAI_ski on Jul 1, 2026. Click the card to turn it over.

398points

82comments

#87of 4,366 in 2026

Top 2%of 2026 by points

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9 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.

Idea: 3 for, 2 againstPerformance: 3 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against

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Many listed products appear sold out
From 1 comment
- Neat project and I love the motivations behind it. A few friendly recommendations: • The images on the results pages are in desperate need of optimization. Plenty of 500KB+…
  robot_jesus on HN
Heavy image downloads and slow search on mobile
From 3 comments
- Neat project and I love the motivations behind it. A few friendly recommendations: • The images on the results pages are in desperate need of optimization. Plenty of 500KB+…
  robot_jesus on HN
- Nice site, although wow I downloaded 60mb of data by searching for two things... I reccomend you just make people click search or smth before fetching api results, otherwise keep…
  korrectional on HN
- The search field loses keypresses on mobile. I haven’t looked at the code, but I’m assuming it uses a React-style value binding but has some synchronous processing before it…
  rafram on HN
REI is a customer co-op, not worker-owned
From 1 comment
- Curious that you include REI. It's a retail coop model, not a worker-owned coop. Apropos: the way they ended the REI Adventures program is behavior consistent with a normal…
  jancsika on HN

Map search with pins
From 2 comments
- Very nice and appreciate the effort you put into making this. Some Improvements that could help: the location search could be an actual map with pins which would be easier to use…
  daheza on HN
- Stoked to see this site! I agree with others that a map-based search would be neat, to find local coops. One link correction: 1620 worker is https://www.1620usa.com/ not…
  kaikai on HN
Stock availability indicator
From 1 comment
- Neat project and I love the motivations behind it. A few friendly recommendations: • The images on the results pages are in desperate need of optimization. Plenty of 500KB+…
  robot_jesus on HN
Link correction submissions
From 1 comment
- Nice site! Maybe add link correction? Sometimes I found myself going to sites and though target landing page was wrong or out-of-date, surfing the site a bit, found similar or…
  AmazingEveryDay on HN
Job listings for worker co-ops
From 1 comment
- I wonder of there is a version of this but for jobs?
  LPisGood on HN

Is it US only?
From 1 comment
- I'm assuming this is US only?
  ares623 on HN
How are co-ops legally set up in the US?
From 1 comment
- How are these companies legally setup in the US? Is there a concept of a co-op or do you setup an LLC? In Switzerland we have the concept of a "Genossenschaft"[1] which is a…
  sschueller on HN

Wikipedia list of employee-owned companies
From 1 comment
- Not exactly what you asked for, but here is a related Wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_companies
  consumer451 on HN
usworker.coop directory
From 1 comment
- A link at the bottom of the page goes directly to a US directory (of only 476 entities): https://www.usworker.coop/directory/
  TalkingCodeMonk on HN