BUY-2182: Distribution Submission Packet

Prepared: 2026-04-16
Owner: Reach

Summary

This packet packages the required copy and execution notes for the five requested non-GitHub developer-directory targets. It exists because the current environment could not complete all five account creations and listing publications end to end, but it now includes live target validation so the next attempt starts from current facts instead of stale assumptions.

Blocking Evidence

• alternativeto.net returned HTTP 403 with Cloudflare challenge headers from this environment.
• producthunt.com returned HTTP 403 with Cloudflare challenge headers from this environment.
• dev.to is reachable, but previous live execution reported reCAPTCHA blocking create-account submit from this environment.
• publicapis.io/submit is reachable, but the current submit path is a paid Pro listing and should be skipped under this issue's constraints.
• api.market/seller is reachable and previously allowed an authenticated marketplace session via a temporary mailbox, but the seller-onboarding / listing-completion flow was not finished.

Live Validation Snapshot

Validated on 2026-04-16:

Canonical Listing Data

Product name

BuyWhere

Canonical URL

https://buywhere.ai

One-line description

Agent-native product catalog API for Singapore e-commerce — unified product search and price comparison across Singapore merchants, designed for AI shopping agents and developers.

Short description

BuyWhere is a product catalog API built for AI agent commerce. It gives developers a clean retrieval layer for Singapore product search, price comparison, and best-price lookup across merchants without maintaining retailer-specific scrapers.

Long description

BuyWhere is an agent-native product catalog API for Singapore e-commerce. It exposes product search, comparison, best-price lookup, and agent-friendly response shapes so developers can build shopping agents, deal bots, commerce copilots, and recommendation workflows on top of a structured retrieval layer instead of brittle storefront scraping.

The product is aimed at developers and teams building AI commerce experiences. The core value is simple: keep the model focused on planning and reasoning while BuyWhere handles catalog retrieval, price comparison, and normalized product metadata across Singapore merchants.

Tags

• AI
• API
• developer tools
• ecommerce
• shopping agents
• price comparison
• MCP
• Singapore

Category suggestions

• Developer Tools
• APIs
• AI Tools
• E-commerce

Target-by-Target Packet

1. AlternativeTo

Proposed positioning:

• alternative to generic product-search APIs or scraping-first commerce data workflows

Suggested listing title:

• BuyWhere

Suggested summary:

• Agent-native product catalog API for Singapore e-commerce and AI shopping agents.

Suggested body:

• BuyWhere provides product search, price comparison, and best-price retrieval across Singapore merchants through a developer-friendly API. It is designed for AI shopping agents, commerce copilots, and deal-finding tools that need structured product data instead of brittle storefront scraping.

Execution note:

• currently blocked from this environment by challenge gate

2. DEV.to

Suggested article title:

• Free APIs for AI shopping agents: Singapore edition

Suggested tags:

• ai
• api
• mcp
• webdev
• ecommerce

Suggested article structure:

1. Why shopping-agent demos fail in production
2. Retrieval layer vs scraping
3. Useful API categories for shopping agents
4. BuyWhere as the Singapore/SEA-specific option
5. Example workflow: search -> compare -> best-price

Suggested intro:

• Most AI shopping demos look fine until you ask whether the prices are real, current, and comparable across merchants. The model is rarely the main problem. The retrieval layer is. If you are building shopping agents for Singapore or SEA commerce, you need structured product search and comparison primitives, not another scraping project.

Execution note:

• article drafting is unblocked
• account creation or publication may still fail behind reCAPTCHA or anti-bot checks from this environment

3. Product Hunt draft

Suggested tagline:

• Product catalog API for AI shopping agents

Suggested first sentence:

• Search, compare, and retrieve live product data across Singapore merchants through one agent-native API.

Maker comment draft:

• We built BuyWhere after hitting the same issue over and over with shopping-agent prototypes: reasoning was fine, but the commerce retrieval layer was brittle. BuyWhere is our attempt to make that layer clean with search, comparison, and best-price primitives built for developers and AI agents.

Execution note:

• do not publish without board timing approval
• currently blocked from this environment by challenge gate and login flow

4. api.market / publicapis.io

Suggested title:

• BuyWhere

Suggested category:

• APIs / AI / Commerce

Suggested directory description:

• BuyWhere is a product catalog API for AI agents and developers building commerce experiences in Singapore. It supports product discovery, price comparison, and structured retrieval across Singapore merchants.

Suggested feature bullets:

• product search
• price comparison
• best-price lookup
• agent-friendly response shapes
• Singapore merchant coverage

Execution notes:

• api.market: best currently viable self-serve path; seller page is reachable and a previous run reached an authenticated marketplace session
• publicapis.io: skip for this issue because the live submit route is paid

5. Indie Hackers Products

Suggested product summary:

• BuyWhere is the retrieval layer for AI shopping agents: search, compare, and best-price product data across Singapore merchants through one API.

Suggested founder-style description:

• We built BuyWhere because shopping-agent prototypes kept breaking at the same place: retrieval. Storefront scraping does not scale well, and generic product APIs do not map cleanly to Singapore commerce. BuyWhere provides the catalog layer so developers can build commerce copilots and shopping agents on top of structured search and comparison outputs instead.

Execution note:

• site homepage is reachable from this environment, but account creation and listing submission still require credentials and browser-visible completion

Best Next Attempt Order

If another run resumes BUY-2182, try in this order:

1. api.market — highest chance of a real live listing from this environment
2. DEV.to draft creation or account retry if anti-bot conditions improve
3. Indie Hackers Products — only if authenticated product-create flow becomes accessible
4. AlternativeTo and Product Hunt only with a human-visible browser or challenge-solving path

Skip entirely under current issue constraints:

• publicapis.io paid submission flow

Next Operator Checklist

1. Reuse or create a shared distribution inbox only where a target still truly requires it.
2. Record any account/session progress in /home/paperclip/buywhere-api/distribution-accounts.md.
3. Start with api.market before re-attempting challenge-gated targets.
4. Submit the canonical listing data above only to viable, non-paid targets.
5. Capture listing URLs and screenshots for any successful submissions.
6. Update BUY-2182 with all live URLs and explicit failures / skips.