
Show HN: I'm Building a Decentralized AmazonHi HN! Agora is an AI search engine for e-commerce products. We've indexed 21 million products sold on 62,000 different Shopify and WooCommerce stores and made them easy for customers to search and purchase. Think of a decentralized Amazon.I originally built Agora as a side project and launched it here on HN. The search took 5 - 10 seconds to return results and the app looked like it was designed in MS Paint (by yours truly). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38635695Since the MVP launch, here are a few technical challenges that we've been working on:1. Figured out how to return results in under 300ms. We are using a self-hosted version of Meilisearch on a high memory Digital Ocean server. The app is built with Remix, specifically to optimize for pre-fetching of data. To power the AI search, we convert our products into both text and image embeddings. Text embeddings with Cohere and image embeddings with Clip. We are now working on further server optimizations and data sharding to g
