Found something good?
Put it on the map.
Almost everything in this index started as someone pasting a link. Lantern does not scrape marketplaces wholesale: a scrape gives you eight million listings and no idea which of them are worth owning. What makes a find useful is the part only a person can add: the measurements, the wash test, the thing that is wrong with it.
What you send goes up straight away and a person reads it in the days after, so the standard here is one you hold yourself to rather than one a queue holds you to. 2 products is a catalogue you can actually read, and we would rather keep it that size than pad it out.
- Indexed
- 2
- live products
- Reviews
- 0
- left after arrival
- Photos
- 0
- QC and owner shots
- Curators
- 1
- contributing
What sending actually does. The form creates a real product page attached to your account and publishes it: in the feed, in search, in its category, readable by anyone. The link, duplicate and wording checks run before it is written. A moderator reads it in the days after, and until then the page carries a “not checked yet” label so nobody mistakes it for one we have been over.
Paste an agent page (CNFans, Mulebuy, Hoobuy, Superbuy, Sugargoo and the rest) and the form unwraps it back to the source listing. Aggregators and resellers get bounced with an explanation of what to paste instead.
Submit a product
Six steps, about four minutes. Nothing here is busywork: every field feeds a filter, a guide, an agent estimate or a product page, and anything that can be filled in for you already has been.
Sign in to submit
Submitting creates a real product row attached to your account, so it needs one. Nothing else on Lantern is gated: browsing, searching, comparing agents and reading reviews all work signed out.
The find is credited to you
Your name sits on the product page from the moment it goes up, and finds that survive review count towards the reputation that gets curators onto guides and collection covers.
You can track what happened to it
Submissions keep a reference and a status. If a page of yours is taken down, that arrives with a reason rather than as silence.
Photos travel with the submission
One of your own images is the minimum and six is the cap. They upload with the form and are public on the product page as soon as you send it.
Already spotted something and worried you will lose the link? Keep the tab open: the form takes about four minutes and nothing is posted until the last step.
What makes a submission worth publishing
Six things separate a find that stays in the index from one a moderator takes down again. None of them take long.
Link the item, not the shop
The link needs the item number in it. A shop front or search result cannot be price-tracked, cannot be duplicate-checked, and breaks the moment the seller reorders their catalogue.
Correct the weight if you know it
Weight is what turns a price into a landed cost across every agent, and no listing publishes one, so the form fills in what the subcategory usually weighs packed. If you have the parcel in front of you, your figure beats ours.
Write facts a photo cannot show
The description can be one line, so make the line count: fabric weight in gsm, pit-to-pit in centimetres, whether the hardware is stamped or cast. Adjectives are free; measurements are what people come here for.
Name the flaw
Every product has one. Sizing, a cheap drawcord, a smell out of the bag, a print that is slightly off-centre. A submission with no downside reads as marketing and gets trusted less, not more.
At least one photo, up to six
This is the one thing the form insists on. People browse with their eyes, photo evidence is the strongest signal on the platform, and it is the reason a page here is trusted over the listing it points at.
Originals and unbranded only
No replicas, no versions of other companies' products, no brand names as a reference point. The pre-check in the form is blunt on purpose, and the standard behind it is not negotiable.
The rules
What we will not index
Lantern is useful because of what it leaves out. The form blocks the first category outright before anything is written; the rest come down when a moderator reaches the page, which is a live page disappearing rather than one that never went up.
Replicas and copies
Anything described with the grading vocabulary of the replica trade, or presented as a version of another company's product.
Brand references
Products named after, compared to, or positioned against a fashion, luxury or sportswear label.
Weapons and restricted goods
Blades sold as weapons, stun devices, vaping hardware, anything pharmaceutical.
Dropship duplicates
The same white-label item from twelve different shops. We index the best-rated seller and stop there.
Empty listings
Machine-translated titles with no measurements, no material, no evidence anyone has held the object.
Questions people ask first
- Do I need an account to submit a product?
- Yes. Finds are credited to the person who made them, that credit is what reputation on this site is built from, and a page with a name on it is far cheaper to review after the fact than an anonymous one. Signing in takes about twenty seconds.
- How long until my find appears?
- Immediately. The link, duplicate and wording checks run the moment you press send, and the page is public as soon as they pass: in the feed, in search, in its category. A person reads it afterwards, usually within five working days and slower during Chinese public holidays, and until they do the page says on it that nobody has checked it yet.
- Why would a page of mine be taken down?
- In order of frequency: the link points at a shop rather than an item, the listing turns out to be a replica, or the description is a machine translation with nothing in it a buyer could act on. Duplicates never get that far, because the form blocks a marketplace link that is already in the index.
- Can I submit something I have not bought?
- Yes, but say so. A find you have only read about is still useful; presenting it as first-hand experience when it is not is the fastest way to lose standing in the community.
- What happens if the seller pulls the listing later?
- The product page stays up and gets marked unavailable. Reviews, photos and price history remain useful, and the page starts recommending live alternatives instead.
- Do you accept affiliate or agent links?
- Paste one and we will unwrap it back to the source listing, because that is what people have to hand. What gets stored is always the marketplace address, rebuilt from the item number with every tracking parameter dropped.
Not sure where it belongs?
Look at the category first. Seeing what is already indexed is the fastest way to tell whether your find is a duplicate, and what level of detail the good submissions carry.