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Does this link are of amazon products only?
Amazon provides the affiliate revenue, so Amazon products are what gets linked. I'm not opposed to the business model, I use affiliate links to monetize my site, too. But it does seem silly to shy away from admitting that this is trying to make some money from the links.
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).
Hey, this is awesome! You literally built a product I specifically asked for here in a thread here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15002985 (it’s idea #2). 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…
Very cool! Congrats on shipping! 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 ?
The conception of the idea was Tuesday. The next thing I knew it was Saturday, and I felt ready enough to post.
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Amazon provides the affiliate revenue, so Amazon products are what gets linked. I'm not opposed to the business model, I use affiliate links to monetize my site, too. But it does seem silly to shy away from admitting that this is trying to make some money from the links.
I don't think they are shying away from it - it's pretty clear in the about page. Seems like a totally reasonable way to get some revenue for the site.
Very cool! Congrats on shipping! 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 ?
Thanks, this project uses Ruby on Rails 5 with Webpacker (React). I've found making websites quickly with Rails is very effective. The data can be found on Google BigQuery and I then used Scrapy to scrape Amazon pages for further product info. It's deployed to a DigitalOcean node and connects to an Amazon RDS Postgres instance. The conception of the idea was Tuesday. The next thing I knew it was Saturday, and I felt…
> The conception of the idea was Tuesday. The next thing I knew it was Saturday.
That's amazing! You turned your idea into an MVP in 5 days. Very impressive.
The user experience on mobile is a bit clumsy. I would recommend putting some work into that. For example it's difficult to switch to a subreddit beyond the default five displayed at the top (without an overflow: property).
Hey, this is awesome! You literally built a product I specifically asked for here in a thread here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15002985 (it’s idea #2). 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…
This is really well done! I personally hadn't thought of this. I collect resources from HN all of the time and pile them up in an Instapaper account, but I organize haphazardly and poorly.
That said I'd add that if you can offer for registered users or anybody a regular caching or hard-copy option. To double up on that, offer pipelining of a cached data dump to a file on Google drive or Dropbox or any other redundancy endpoint. You could grow from there in usability. Or somebody could write a middleman service for that... fun's fun.
Great work, anyway.
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