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Launch HN: Lumona (YC W24) – Product Search Based on Reddit and YouTube Reviews

Mar 29, 2024 - news.ycombinator.com
Lumona is a product search engine that uses social media data from Reddit and YouTube to recommend products. The platform explains what makes a product good, shows the best products, and supports these recommendations with reviews from Reddit and YouTube. Lumona started with skincare products, using a combination of SERP, Amazon’s API, and web page crawling to build its skincare search index. The platform uses a Mistral LLM to parse through Reddit threads and YouTube transcripts to extract user opinions and match them with relevant products.

Lumona's search engine can handle specific situation queries and product-specific queries, and it uses an LLM to analyze search queries and suggest preferable ingredients or effects for specific skin concerns. The company plans to improve its service by incorporating opinions from other social media platforms, making its opinion extraction process more robust, and allowing users to upload their own reviews. The long-term goal is to become a go-to product for anyone looking for subjective opinions on any topic. Lumona invites users to try their platform and provide feedback.

Key takeaways:

  • Lumona is a product search engine that recommends products based on social media reviews, starting with skincare products.
  • The search engine uses a fine-tuned Mistral LLM to parse through Reddit threads and YouTube transcripts to extract user opinions and match them with relevant products.
  • Lumona plans to improve by incorporating opinions from other social media platforms, allowing users to upload their own reviews, and expanding their search across more products.
  • The long-term goal of Lumona is to revolutionize the discovery experience by making it as easy as searching on Google to find out what people think about subjective topics.
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