Technical Founder: Zaloot - Product Search

Introduction

Zaloot is rebuilding product search — a platform that delivers real-time, app-free access to structured product data including official marketing, specs, trailers, reviews, and retailer pricing. Access the product data through traditional search, barcode scanning, or Zaloot API.

How It Works

Search or Scan: Visit zaloot.com on your phone. Scan any UPC or Zaloot QR. Get snapshot product research and price comparison in seconds. No App. It Just Works. Try it below!

Personalization: With an optional free account users can follow brands, bookmark products, create custom lists, and share it all with friends. Contribute to site content, earn ZP, and sponsor your favorite brand / product pages anytime.

Link to Pages: Share the page link or download the SVG-format Zaloot QR code. Use them on packaging, websites, social media, print marketing, at events, or anywhere else you like.

Pre-Filtered Product Search

Use smart URLs to guide users directly to relevant filtered results. For example, click the link below to explore the lowest-priced PS5 games live on Zaloot:

https://zaloot.com/search?s=products&category=ZWD&sort=price&order=asc

Zaloot API

Programmatic Access: Integrate Zaloot's dynamic real-time data and analytics into your applications. Access product information, live pricing, and consumer interest metrics via a RESTful API call.

Use Cases: Retail intelligence dashboards, price monitors, collection trackers, search result augmentation, and integration into third-party shopping tools.

Flexible Plans: Tiered by usage, with caching guidance and self-service access planning. Ideal for developers, resellers, and data teams.

Zaloot... For Business (free)

Brands can officially manage product pages through DNS verification. Embed Zaloot QR into packaging, websites, and marketing. Dynamically distribute product information retail-wide via Zaloot API. Automate product SEO and leverage Zaloot's collective rank authority to put new products on page one fast.

Zaloot pages stay live, searchable, and SEO-optimized at all times - acting as permanent research pages that optionally link to various retailer availability.

Technical Architecture

Zaloot is built on a scalable AWS-backed LAMP stack supported by CloudFront for fast delivery, S3 for asset storage, and an RDS-hosted database for high availability. Microservices in Node.js handle async pipelines like Puppeteer-based retailer crawling, email delivery, data validation, and QR rendering.

Growth & Traction

• Live on mobile and desktop at zaloot.com.
• ~2,000 monthly active users | ~10,000 monthly visits.
• Avg. session: 1 minute 38 seconds.
• 100% bootstrapped. Zero marketing spend to date.

Next Steps

• Platform is live and accessible on both desktop and mobile.
• Growing content, organic traffic, and brand partnerships.
• Finishing up Zaloot API - an early-stage revenue model.

Long-Term Vision

Zaloot is becoming the search and visibility infrastructure for physical commerce. Just as Stripe standardized online payments, Zaloot aims to standardize product visibility, transparency, and structured discovery for every item on every shelf—online or offline.