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

workerowned.info
398 points·by IESAI_ski·il y a 11 jours·82 comments

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IESAI_ski
·il y a 9 jours·discuss
heh i made something that you might the call the opposite of that: https://yourfairshare.info/

Enter your US employer's name or stock ticker symbol (e.g. Amazon, Apple, JP Morgan Chase) and your compensation to see how your pay compares to company-wide financials. Basically, you can see how much more they could have paid you. Also shows stock buybacks and dividends, so u can see how much more they could have paid you instead of the stock market.
IESAI_ski
·il y a 9 jours·discuss
great idea, i changed the browsing to be categories of products, not of stores. the stores still there but this is way better. thanks!
IESAI_ski
·il y a 10 jours·discuss
yeah still lots of cleaning up. it's a little like wack-a-mole and i'm hoping users will find stuff and submit it.
IESAI_ski
·il y a 10 jours·discuss
Appreciate the feedback and the info. I included REI in the directory (labeled as customer co-op not a worker co-op) but not in the search results but now I realize that's lame. I'm just gonna take them off entirely.
IESAI_ski
·il y a 11 jours·discuss
totally. we can badger people to buy from better companies but that seems so tough. better to just make it easier for people to buy from better companies :)
IESAI_ski
·il y a 11 jours·discuss
good idea. i can do this :)
IESAI_ski
·il y a 11 jours·discuss
I wanted to buy from worker-owned cooperatives but there was no single place to see what they actually sell. So I scraped the product catalogs from ~60 worker-owned co-op stores and made them searchable.

22,000+ products: coffee, chocolate, clothing, books, home goods, etc. You search, find something, and click through to buy directly from the co-op's store. Nothing goes through me.

There's also a section for finding worker-owned coffee shops, restaurants, and bars by city (110+ listings, mostly US).

Static Next.js site, JSON-backed search. No accounts, no tracking, no ads.

Happy to answer questions about the data or how I identified which businesses are actually worker-owned. Please reach out if you want to add your co-op!