A simple API to help your AI agent search and order online
Real-time retail data and automated ordering through a single API. Fetch live prices, detailed catalog data, and order without managing procurement accounts. Build faster with developer-friendly RESTful API calls, robust docs, and ready-to-use code snippets.
Hello everyone 👋 I’m Xiang, CEO at Zinc.
I’m beyond excited to share our biggest launch yet — Retail API for AI agents
Empower your agents to search, shop, and checkout from top retailers. Built for high-throughput applications. 🎉
What is Zinc?
For the last ten years, Zinc (YC W14) has been the secret backbone of e-commerce, automating millions of orders and providing real-time data from major retail channels. We are now launching a LLM-optimized API that allows agents to search, access high-quality retail data, and complete checkout with a few simple requests. Structured data and endpoints designed specifically for LLM tool calling. Reliable enough for autonomous systems, simple enough for rapid development.
- Key features -
Retail catalog data: access to images, product descriptions, variant details, and more.
Real-time prices: accurate and low-latency for customer-facing applications.
Programmatic ordering: automate your entire checkout and post-order tracking and return support with one POST request.
Zinc Managed Accounts (ZMA): Lower operational costs and place orders without the need to manage procurement accounts. Multiple funding methods supported.
- PH deal -
Sign up for the Zinc API free with our ProductHunt referral link and get $5 of API credits on us. The first 100 signups will additionally receive $20 of Zinc Managed Accounts credit to spend on live ordering. https://login.zinc.io/signup?flo...
Instant API access https://zinc.com/pricing
See it in action with this demo chatbot powered by Zinc https://whai.zinc.com/
Speak with the integrations team for more complex needs https://zinc.com/contact
Explore our API documentation https://docs.zincapi.com/#introd...
About Zinc on Product Hunt
“A simple API to help your AI agent search and order online”
Zinc launched on Product Hunt on February 4th, 2025 and earned 143 upvotes and 18 comments, placing #12 on the daily leaderboard. Real-time retail data and automated ordering through a single API. Fetch live prices, detailed catalog data, and order without managing procurement accounts. Build faster with developer-friendly RESTful API calls, robust docs, and ready-to-use code snippets.
On the analytics side, Zinc competes within API, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence and E-Commerce — topics that collectively have 647.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Zinc performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Zinc?
Zinc was hunted by Xiang Li. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Zinc including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Xiang Li