Show HN launches a searchable index of 22k+ worker co-op products

A new site, workerowned.info, has surfaced on Hacker News as a Show HN project: a searchable directory cataloging more than 22,000 products made by worker-owned cooperatives. The pitch is straightforward — give people who want to buy from democratically-run, employee-owned businesses a single place to find those goods rather than hunting across scattered co-op websites.

The project’s significance is less about technology than about supply-chain transparency and consumer choice. Worker co-ops are typically small and hard to discover through mainstream retail channels, so an aggregated, filterable catalog lowers the friction of sourcing from them. Its value hinges on the breadth and freshness of the underlying data — a 22k-product claim implies either substantial manual curation or automated collection from co-op storefronts.

As a Show HN, it invites feedback rather than presenting finished research, so questions around data provenance, how co-ops are verified as genuinely worker-owned, and how listings stay current are all fair game for the community to probe.