Lesson · what we're building

Keep a list in sync with any system you own

The finished thing: a searchable list that mirrors your own system. You give one URL that returns JSON; Search Stack keeps a list in step with it — new records appear, edits update in place, deleted ones drop out — and it's searchable for your users and your agents.

Data inone HTTPS endpoint that returns your records as JSON
Configa manifest for full fidelity (optional)
Searchablea searchable list that stays in sync with your system

Build it yourself → 4 steps. It's real: you build it in the console on a free account.

Or build it with Claude Hand the whole lesson to Claude and build it with your own data.

Most of the other lessons bring data in from a place we've built a connector for — Shopify, a website, Notion. This one is the do-it-yourself feed: any system with a read API becomes searchable, without waiting for a bespoke integration. If it can return your records as JSON at a URL, Search Stack can keep a list in sync with it.

There's an example endpoint you can point at right now — /tutorial-data/catalog.ndjson, a small product catalogue in the common format — so every step below is copy-paste runnable against real data.