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I don't fully understand the psychology behind this. Would someone be more likely to buy an item just because is it mentioned in a forum. There are similar sites that mine HN for the books that are mentioned here. Can some ELI5 to me?
I don't fully understand the psychology behind this. Would someone be more likely to buy an item just because is it mentioned in a forum. There are similar sites that mine HN for the books that are mentioned here. Can some ELI5 to me?
Smart way of making money through referral links. I'm not even mad, that's amazing!
I don't fully understand the psychology behind this. Would someone be more likely to buy an item just because is it mentioned in a forum. There are similar sites that mine HN for the books that are mentioned here. Can some ELI5 to me?
I can't help but laugh at London's best, though: https://i.imgur.com/HWgujDq.png
Great job! If you put a Massdrop-style portal here I think it could become an amazing way to find crowdsourced products and displace e.g. Google Shopping.
So here’s what you should do next:
1. Crawl every subreddit that can be mapped to a hobby and then crawl all product recommendations.
2. Use NLP and sentiment analysis to map recommendations to coherent products.
3. Rank products according to the sentiment across the subreddit and aggregate the feedback into a few key pros/cons.
4. Sort by ranking and return the products to the user.
If you nail this I would use it for everything. I constantly search reddit for product recommendations on places like /r/coffee. You can capture entire communities like /r/mechanicalkeyboards to appeal to those who trust real user reviews online instead of places like Amazon.
Here’s an example flow for this functionality: you arrive on the site and the interface prompts you to select interests. You do so and you’re then presented with products matched to that interest derived from crawling the relevant subreddit(s). You can see the most commonly expressed pros and cons for each product (for less functional products like watches: what users most commonly liked and most commonly disliked).
Based on my own personal experiences shopping like this I am convinced there is a startup here for the right execution. There are a huge number of people who use social media like reddit, Twitter, etc to do their shopping and this could become their shopping homepage.
What's your tech stack?
How long did it take you to build this,starting from the idea to build and launch i.e. deploying code to thingsonreddit.com ?
I'd be curious to see the success of this with Amazon Affiliates, since it is nearly a direct copy of a site I made 2 months ago (that Amazon shut down due to lack of original content). The site is https://fastandes.com (currently at limited functionality).
Not clear from your wording so asking.
Did you Amazon shut down your website, or did they close your affiliate account? What do you mean by 'lack of original content' ? Was the site an almost replica copy of the amazon page product details? or was it a copy of some other affiliate site?
Thank you!
