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Channel3 (YC S25) Launches Comprehensive Internet Product Database with Search and Affiliate Features

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glawrence13

9mo ago· 3 min readenNews

Summary

Channel3 is a Y Combinator-backed startup building a comprehensive database of every product on the internet, featuring text and image search capabilities with built-in affiliate monetization. The founders highlight the challenges of finding clean, normalized product data across multiple sources and aim to provide developers with a unified API for product recommendations and deep-linking to merchants.

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It's surprisingly hard to find good product data.
The data you need—clean titles, normalized attributes, deduped listings, current prices and inventory, variant options, images, and brand info—is not just messy; it's also spread across a long, l
a database of every product on the internet, searchable via text/image, and with built-in affiliate monetization
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Hi HN — we’re George and Alex, building Channel3 (https://trychannel3.com/), a database of every product on the internet, searchable via text/image, and with built-in affiliate monetization. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx8FyP7KvJg.

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