Is it just me or is anyone else having a tough time trying to wade through all the jargon to figure out what this is actually about?
Decidedly not. If you disable javascript for a search, you get a mostly empty page back.
The results themselves do come from an api at benchmarker.fr, but it wants a bearer token.
https://benchmarker.fr/opensearch?q={searchTerms}
You can then configure a redirection folowing these guidelines:
<Url type="text/html" template="https://alternative-a.com/en/search">
<Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
<!-- other Params if you need them… -->
<Param name="view" value="list"/>
<Param name="sort" value='["reduction","DESC"]'/>
</Url>
Here's the results of a search for "Trello":
https://alternative-a.com/en/search?q=trello&view=list&sort=...
Can you precise which jargon ?
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Honestly, a short paragraph describing what it does would be really helpful.
Some of your target audience may be the "poke around spend time finding out what it does" type. But another swathe could be of the "tell me what this is before I spend any time looking at it" sort.
With these data, Alternative helps to select your future software.
You can start from a similar software search or a functionality search and then reduce the results list to a shortlist of 3 candidates using the tools we provide.
Does it sound clearer? :)