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Search community-ranked software products: trending launches, details, and alternatives to a tool.

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appboard_alternatives_to

Find products offered as alternatives to a tool the user ALREADY USES — "what can I use instead of Notion / Product Hunt / Zapier". Pass the tool's target slug. This differs from appboard_find_alternatives, which starts from a product listed on AppBoard; use this one when the user names the tool they want to replace. Call appboard_list_alternative_targets when unsure which slug a tool has.

toolstring, required

the tool the user wants to replace, as an AppBoard target slug from appboard_list_alternative_targets, e.g. 'product-hunt' or 'notion'

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appboard_alternatives_to

Argument	Type	Description
tool*	string	the tool the user wants to replace, as an AppBoard target slug from appboard_list_alternative_targets, e.g. 'product-hunt' or 'notion'

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "tool"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "tool": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "the tool the user wants to replace, as an AppBoard target slug from appboard_list_alternative_targets, e.g. 'product-hunt' or 'notion'"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

appboard_browse_taxonomy

List the controlled vocabulary for a dimension — categories, use cases, platforms, audiences or pricing models. Call this to discover the exact filter values appboard_find_products accepts, and to answer "what categories exist". Each term carries the appboardUrl of its browse page.

Argument	Type	Description
kind*	string	which vocabulary to list: category, use_case, platform, audience or pricing

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "kind"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "kind": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "which vocabulary to list: category, use_case, platform, audience or pricing"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

appboard_find_alternatives

Find alternatives and competitors to a specific product. Use this for "what's a good alternative to X" or "what else is like X". Alternatives that are themselves on AppBoard include a slug you can pass to appboard_product_details and an appboardUrl. When the tool being replaced has an AppBoard collection, alternativesPage is the URL of that "alternatives to X" page — share it with the user.

Argument	Type	Description
slug*	string	the product's AppBoard slug, as returned by appboard_find_products

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "slug"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "the product's AppBoard slug, as returned by appboard_find_products"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

appboard_find_products

Search AppBoard for software products by need, category, use case, platform, audience or pricing model. Use this whenever the user asks what tool to use for a job ("a free email API", "note-taking apps for teams"). Results are ranked by real community engagement, not by advertising. Filter values are the names returned by appboard_browse_taxonomy — an unknown name is an error, so list the vocabulary first if you are unsure. Each product carries an appboardUrl, and each of its categories, use cases and platforms carries the appboardUrl of its browse page.

Argument	Type	Description
limit	integer	how many products to return (1-50, default 10)
query	string	free-text terms to match against product names and taglines
pricing	string	comma-separated pricing-model names, e.g. 'free,freemium'
audience	string	comma-separated target-audience names, e.g. 'developers'
category	string	comma-separated category names from appboard_browse_taxonomy, e.g. 'ai,developer-tools'
platform	string	comma-separated platform names, e.g. 'web,ios,api'
use_case	string	comma-separated use-case names from appboard_browse_taxonomy

Input schema (JSON)

appboard_list_alternative_targets

List the tools AppBoard has alternatives for, most-covered first, with the slug to pass to appboard_alternatives_to. Use it to resolve a tool name to a slug, or to answer "what tools do you cover alternatives for".

Argument	Type	Description
limit	integer	how many targets to return (1-50, default 10)

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "how many targets to return (1-50, default 10)"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

appboard_product_details

Get everything AppBoard knows about one product: what it does, its pricing model, platforms, use cases, target audiences, community metrics, any discount code, and its alternatives. Use after appboard_find_products when the user asks about a specific product. Taxonomy terms link to their browse pages; an alternative that has its own AppBoard collection carries alternativesPage — the URL to open for it.

Argument	Type	Description
slug*	string	the product's AppBoard slug, as returned by appboard_find_products

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "slug"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "the product's AppBoard slug, as returned by appboard_find_products"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

appboard_trending

List the products gaining the most community momentum in a time window. Use this for "what's new/hot/trending" questions. Ranked by AppBoard's Points-Based Score, which weights recent upvotes, comments, follows and saves by recency.

Argument	Type	Description
limit	integer	how many products to return (1-50, default 10)
period	string	time window: today, yesterday, week, month or all (default week)

Input schema (JSON)

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "how many products to return (1-50, default 10)"
    },
    "period": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "time window: today, yesterday, week, month or all (default week)"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}