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Constructor Blog
Company blog · constructor.io/blog · on HN as danmccormdatabusiness
Constructor Blog is the company blog at constructor.io, writing about data and business. Since 2015, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Autocomplete as a service”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments point to Constructor.io, a company whose product search and discovery service serves large retailers. They are a job posting and a product suggestion, not comments on the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The only site search and product discovery built for ecommerce KPIs. Delivering superior experiences with AI, NLP, data and personalization.
Most-linked posts?
- Autocomplete as a service2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-13
What Hacker News says?
Constructor | Machine Learning Engineer & Data Scientist | Remote | Full Time | https://constructor.io/ Constructor.io powers product search and discovery for the largest retailers in the world, like Sephora and Backcountry, serving billions of requests every year. The KPI optimization team plays a central role in implementing algorithms that optimize for business KPIs like revenue & conversions. We focus on metrics…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”Submitted Constructor.io as a story · 8 points
HN discussionIt's 2015, and this is a search engine. Why is there no autocomplete? You guys should check out https://www.constructor.io
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on “Hulbee – A Safe, Smart, Innovative Search Engine”Submitted Data Moats Are Not Just About the Data as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThat’s definitely one signal, but it can be refined by tracking whether the search led to click-throughs, conversions, a different search, a bounce, etc... The conversion is the most important event, but there are a lot of important features aside from that which we'll use to improve results over time. If you're interested, our behavioral api ( https://constructor.io/docs/#behavioral-data ) goes through some of this…
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on “Optimizing trie-based spelling correction algorithms at Constructor.io”Submitted Scary metric ecommerce companies don’t like to talk about… as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted E-commerce Search Relevance: Is it the most valuable metric? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autocomplete as a service as a story · 1 points
HN discussion