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Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
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#172Would like to have a category for Toys. After having four kids it is clear what toys have stood the test of time in durability as well as playability
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#173Looks great. This is probably on your TODO list, but I wanted to make sure you were aware in case it isn't. Your terms of service and privacy policy are: a) Not linked to anywhere except the login screen in very small text. Seems to be part of Google sign in? b) Clicking them goes nowhere. I suspect you setup Google login and didn't provide links to a terms / privacy screen. If you're going to be collecting logins (m…
You are right, I totally forgot to add ToS and privacy policy. It's still an early prototype, but I will definitely fix that soon and give this task the required priority!
You're at least six months into the service being public and you forgot to add a privacy policy or terms of service? And you posted it numerous times to HN in the past. That's really strange overall.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the ship has sailed on the trustworthiness of online reviews from rando people. Pretty much every store or review site that aggregates user-submitted content has done a poor job of removing spam and fake reviews, and people are finally starting to realize how worthless the ratings are. Even if someone does crack this nut and figures it out, they won't be believed because of how fake everything has been for th…
>I think the best thing online stores can do at this point is just nuke all user-submitted ratings and reviews. They're 99% garbage. Yes, in order to re-start, but what then? The whole user reviews concept is bonkers, I would add that there are - besides "fake" reviews - "real" ones BUT written by clueless people (in good faith, but completely disconnected from an objective rating), and in this it is also way off the…
My "favorite" useless review is the "I just got it and unboxed it. I haven't used it yet, but I know it's going to be good!" five star review. How I hate those.
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#175Very cool concept, the altruistic spirit of the site made me feel compelled to write a review.
Small feedback: all the newlines from my review went missing once it got published! If this is intentional (like in HN) perhaps put a link to formatting guide next to the editor.
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#176It does not work on firefox with disabled ads, trackers etc. I got white screen without content. I dont know if the reason is that site isn't compatible with firefox or some other "measure" but those are the urls that were blocked, if it helps you fixing it. https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-154925745-1 (blocked by ublock origin) https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.... (blocked by…
Same here. This is what I see: https://i.imgur.com/lrI3y7j.png
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#177Any thoughts for adding good TCO commercial grade things? As an example, after I got upset throwing away my 5th coffee maker in a row, I found myself a Bunn pourover coffee maker on craigslist. They are made for huge duty cycles and every part is hard wearing, replaceable and easy to get ahold of via commercial coffee distributors. Now every time I have something needing replacement I look at commercial options, but…
Coffee makers are some of the few devices where this makes sense. While commercial things can occasionally save money, they usually don't. Furthermore, the TCO calculation has to take into account what you would have done with the same amount of money. Let's pretend you buy a $2000 commercial grade widget instead of the $500 consumer grade widget. Over ten years of use, your commercial grade widget cost $100 in parts…
I like some of this argument. It reminds me of the story of Warren Buffet not wanting to buy a $20K car because he said with discount to present value the opportunity cost would make it cost him $100K.
On the other hand all things are not equal. Take laptops. You might think that a cheap one that costs a quarter of an expensive model would mean that you change it more often for the same cost.
By the end of the upgrade cycle you'd probably have a faster cheap laptop than the original expensive one and that might be true but you'd also have to live with the cheap keyboard and the cheap screen and the cheap build quality of the case.
So you have to make the trade off I guess.
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#178TOS goes to google.com
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Stainless steel frying pan instead of nonstick frying pans where the non stick coating wears off. Cast iron even better. They're called nonstick for a reason; stainless steel does not compare. You'll have more sticking problems cooking eggs on a steel pan drowning in butter than on a (new) nonstick pan with minimal grease. I do own an 18th-century cast iron pan and it has pretty good seasoning. I use it for many th…
Stainless steel frying pans have their place, so I'm not sure why you're saying they "don't compare." Sure, they "don't compare" for a non-stick scrambled egg, but there are more things that get made in the kitchen. For me personally, my most-used pans in order are my 12" cast iron, my 10" cast iron, my 12" All-clad stainless steel, my 6" cast iron, and my 6" non-stick is last, mostly for eggs. Stainless is excellent…
Stuck on bits can be a feature rather than a problem. Deglaze with some wine and make a sauce!
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#180I'm sorry, I wrote a product review for Tilley hats, but when I got to the login screen, I quit. I feel like these days there are just too many sites wanting to use social sign on.
For what it's worth, this was the review:
> No logo on the hat, because the design is iconic.
There are logos on some of the hats, at least on my T3 wanderer there is. Mark Symons says no frills but, well, there are some. They're not cheap, which "no frills" tends to imply. They're pretty good quality, and overall, the best