Alt.Parts is building a search layer for the messy automotive aftermarket: instead of hunting through catalogs, forums, and marketplaces, you can locate a compatible part in seconds and then compare prices across sellers. The team says the product went viral after an end-of-March launch and has already drawn around 200,000 users by targeting a frustration that hits both car owners and repair shops in a ~$2T parts economy today https://www.alt.parts
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The core workflow is “drop a link”: paste a URL from a listing and Alt.Parts extracts the fitment signals, then returns cheaper or more available alternatives that still match your vehicle. Under the hood this means parsing unstructured titles/descriptions, normalizing brand and SKU variants, and anchoring results to identifiers like OEM/aftermarket part numbers plus make, model, year, trim, and engine codes, so you’re not stuck with generic keyword search noise at any price.
What makes this hard is entity resolution: the same component appears under many names, supersessions, and cross-references, and marketplaces mix true interchange parts with near-miss lookalikes. A practical stack combines rule-based constraints (vehicle application tables, part-number regex, attribute schema) with ML ranking (deduplication, vector search for semantic similarity, price/availability scoring), and it improves from the long tail of real user query and click data.
Counterfeit and low-grade parts are a real risk, especially when the cheapest offer wins, and Alt.Parts positions itself as a discovery tool rather than the merchant of record. That still leaves room for quality signals (seller reputation, return policy, OEM vs aftermarket labeling, known brand tiers) and for community feedback. In this interview filmed at Web Summit Lisbon 2025, the team also highlights a Discord space where enthusiasts share builds, costs, and sourcing notes there.
If Alt.Parts keeps scaling, the interesting next step is turning search into a workflow for garages: browser extension or API ingestion of quote links, automated BOM generation, and fitment validation before ordering. Add photo-to-part matching later (computer vision + multimodal retrieval) and you get a pipeline from “I saw that spoiler” to a validated compatible SKU, with clear tradeoffs between price, lead time, and quality, built for steady growth.
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