Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant

Name: Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant
Rating: 5.0 (7 reviews)

FREE browser extension finds the best resale deals online

5.0•7 reviews•

387 followers

FREE browser extension finds the best resale deals online

5.0•7 reviews•

387 followers

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The Beni browser extension is a FREE and easy-to-use tool that makes secondhand shopping seamless. With the click of a button, the extension intercepts online shopping searches and directs users to the same or similar products on leading resale marketplaces.

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Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant

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Hi Product Hunt 👋 While today most of us understand the financial and environmental benefits of resale, it still takes too much time and energy to find the pre-loved items we want. Beni solves this problem for the first time, making the secondhand shopping experience frictionless. Over the past year, we’ve been hard at work building the beta and have over 2k current users testing out the product – and now we’re ready to spread the word to the Product Hunt community! What is Beni? We’re a browser plug-in that scours the internet and finds you the best secondhand swaps while you’re shopping online. We partner with 25+ leading resale marketplaces (eBay, The RealReal, Vestiaire Collective, Grailed, Kidizen, etc.) and show you their best listings in one place – sometimes this will be an exact match to what you were looking at and sometimes it will be a similar item that might also meet your needs. Today, we’re coming out of beta and launching Beni 2.0 in the US! We’ve been making major updates to our product functionality, including: 🏆50M+ pre-loved items in our database: We work directly with the leading resale platforms to get direct access to their constantly evolving product feeds. This means we’ve created the largest aggregated database of online resale listings – making it easier for us to show you the most relevant secondhand options available. Our partners include The RealReal, Vestiaire Collective, Grailed, GOAT, eBay, Kidizen, Helpsy, Rent The Runway, The Luxury Closet, and many more! 👉 Features to help you find the best fit: - Filter by size, color, brand, and resale platform - Create your own size profile - Save your favorite items - Sort by price and relevancy - Save your search & get alerted when new items pop up (coming soon) 💻📱Beni is available on: - Chrome Desktop (via Chrome Web Store) - Safari Desktop (via App Store) - Safari Mobile Extension (via App Store) - Brave (if you're into that kind of thing) 🌎 About us: We're a fully remote team spread across the US. We're passionate about the circular economy and focused on building tools that help transform the norms of consumption so that buying ‘new’ is not longer the default. 🤝 Beni is for everyone and we are building this together with you. What we need from you?? FEEDBACK! We’re all about progress over perfection so try it out and let us know what you think — the good will keep us energized and the bad will help us move forward faster. Both are very much appreciated! And on that note, if you like your experience, comment below!

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4yr ago

@celiineee this is fab for an endless browser like me!

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4yr ago

Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant

Maker

@alyssabou Thank you for your support! 🥳

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4yr ago

@celiineee Wow! Cool product. I especially like that you made an extension 👍

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4yr ago

Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant

Maker

@yankovichv Haha yes, we love our extensions!! We are fans of Manganum as well! Keep up the great work.🤝

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4yr ago

Love Beni! Saw your campaign about corporate swag - any chance there’s a feature coming to help find bulk buying of tips to then add logos to?

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4yr ago

Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant

Maker

@ale_trevino I love that idea! We haven't yet thought about ways to support other corporations with their corporate gift giving but would love to chat with you more about it! For the Beni team, we buy blank clothing items via Beni like shirts, crewnecks, etc. and have been screen printing them all together during our off-sites with a local screen printer - that's been super fun and would highly recommend as a great bonding experience for smaller companies.

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4yr ago

Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant

Maker

@ale_trevino you can also check out our friends and partners at Goodfair -- they sell in bulk and it's actually where we sourced a lot of the items we ended up screenprinting!

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4yr ago

I love Beni!! It's definitely minimized the cost and footprint of my online shopping addiction already, and I can't wait to follow along as you all continue to improve the product. Are there any plans to expand filtering options to include price? I definitely am most compelled by great deals, even if they're not necessarily on the exact item I'm browsing. E.g. if I was looking at a dress on Saks website and I could filter my Beni matches to show dresses that are listed at "x% or more off" the price of that dress, I would personally find that super helpful, even if none of the matches were the exact dress (w the exact OG retail price) I'd been looking at.

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4yr ago

Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant

Maker

@nika_shclover Yay! We love that we can help make your shopping habits more sustainable. 🙂 That is a great recommendation and we have gotten similar feedback from other users. We are working on a better way to more accurately display price of secondhand alternatives and can definitely factor in a filter component to that. We would love to re-connect with you as we work through the product development of that feature! Thanks for your feedback!

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4yr ago

Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant

Maker

@nika_shclover thanks nika! that's a great question - we currently have a 'sort by price' feature instead of by relevancy, but we can def put in some filters!

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4yr ago

This seems like such an awesome tool. It’s so cool to be able to see secondhand alternatives without changing the way you shop - do you partner with a lot of marketplaces that offer men’s clothing?

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4yr ago

Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant

Maker

@brenden_dougherty We do! Grailed is one of our top partners for men's stuff

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4yr ago

Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant

Maker

@brenden_dougherty thank you and great question! We partner with over 27+ marketplaces and have over 50M+ pre-loved items in our database, which means we have a LOT of secondhand alternatives for everyone. In fact, we have the largest aggregated database of pre-loved goods. We work directly with some of the leading resale platforms to get direct access to their constantly evolving product inventory. Some of our partners include The RealReal, Vestiaire Collective, Grailed, GOAT, eBay, Kidizen, Helpsy, Rent The Runway, The Luxury Closet, and many more!

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4yr ago

Seems extremely useful. Looking forward to installing asap!!! As an avid eBay shopper, looking forward to getting rid of my search alerts and allowing Beni to look across the whole internet instead! Two things I often look for when secondhand shopping are 1) sellers to be highly rated and 2) being able to filter by condition (like new, used etc). Will beni ever consider these in its recommendations, or are there other ways to ensure quality recs?

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4yr ago

Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant

Maker

@trent_reddic Thanks for your support! We just released a search alert feature where you can save a search and we will be doing the searching for you! Already available on macOS and iOS, coming soon to Chrome 0.2.8 🎉 While we don't directly evaluate the individual resale items and/or sellers on the marketplaces, we do have the ability to surface only items of a certain quality level and/or from sellers with certain ratings. Each marketplace also has different approaches to how they authenticate and guarantee the products and sellers on their site, checkout our guide for the top resale marketplaces here: https://www.joinbeni.com/post/th....

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4yr ago

You can only filter beni results by US sizing (I think, correct me if I'm wrong!) - if I want to buy something from a brand with European sizing (shoes, for example), will the filters be able to convert my US size to my European size?

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4yr ago

Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant

Maker

@grishdz Thank you for your question! Yes you are correct, currently the filters are all normalized into US sizes. That said, if you filter for your preferred US size, Beni will still surface any secondhand alternative that is listed with other sizing. For example, if you set a filter for shoe size US 8, we will surface any relevant secondhand alternatives that either have a US Size 8 or equivalent, such as an EU 39. A key tip is to set you preferred sizes in your profile (far right option on the bottom menu in the extension). This way the options are always in your sizes! Hope this helps - lmk if it's not clear!

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4yr ago

@sarah_beni Amazing! Happy to hear it shows equivalents :) hoping to find the used Margiela boots of my dreams with Beni!

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4yr ago

I feel like I'm winning on Beni. I started using it for the price and I've stayed because the two jackets I've bought have been either new with tags or gently used. The secondhand sweetens the pot of course. Question for me is will Beni be able to proactively search for me — let me know when something I've looked for comes online in one of their partner sites?

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4yr ago

Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant

Maker

@rick_desai we love a win win! Great question - yes! Soon we will launch Search Alerts through which you can have Beni continue to search for secondhand options for a product you like, and you'll get options directly to your inbox! Let us know what you think of the new feature. Overall, our goal is to build features to be more proactive and tailored to you - all towards the goal of making finding the perfect secondhand item seamless.

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Beni: Your secondhand shopping assistant is highly praised for its seamless integration and user-friendly interface. Users appreciate its ability to provide relevant product suggestions without being intrusive. Many highlight how it reshapes their shopping habits by offering curated secondhand options, saving time and money. The extension is celebrated for its mission to promote sustainable shopping and its effectiveness in finding alternatives across various resale platforms. Overall, Beni is considered an essential tool for those looking to shop secondhand effortlessly.

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