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#31
Idea: Pivot into ProductHits.com and do this for different categories. Use Amazon affiliate links and promote it on social media by making videos and blog posts about "this weeks top ten products".

You owe it to yourself to make this. :)

PS. If you dont I will. ;)

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

#32
Nice. Keep it up. Side projects like this are what has gotten me into this career.

I've actually been thinking about hacking together something very much like this, because I found myself manually making spreadsheets for cross-checking specs when shopping for a laptop recently. In addition to the facets you have, I also wanted to have max RAM, CPU, and SSD size to filter by. Might be useful additions.

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#33

please add option to filter by max ram capacity, and whether the hdd is upgradeable. I just started to look for a ram and HDD upgrade for my 3 yr old ASUS zenbook prime, only to find out neither were upgradeable. I wish I knew that before I paid $1100.

IIRC the zenbook has a proprietary connector but you can buy adapters for a regular M.2 ssd.

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

#34
Visiting the first link (Dell 15.6-Inch Gaming Laptop) on amazon the price i see is $799.99. Visiting in private browsing https://www.amazon.com/Dell-15-6-Inch-Quad-Core-i5-6300HQ-Pr... the price changes to 699$. Is this standard practice for amazon?

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

#36

Visiting the first link (Dell 15.6-Inch Gaming Laptop) on amazon the price i see is $799.99. Visiting in private browsing https://www.amazon.com/Dell-15-6-Inch-Quad-Core-i5-6300HQ-Pr... the price changes to 699$. Is this standard practice for amazon?

Same here. Interestingly the $799.99 non-incognito version stays the same price if you change the i5 to an i7. Possible bug?

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

#37
post #14
post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There seems to be at least one major laptop brand missing and there's certainly not a to lack of discussions about their new Pro models.

Perhaps it's because most people buy said laptop at apple.com and not amazon.com

Bingo. No affiliate income. This site is biased not to mention inaccurate. More mentions does not equal better.

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

#38

Visiting the first link (Dell 15.6-Inch Gaming Laptop) on amazon the price i see is $799.99. Visiting in private browsing https://www.amazon.com/Dell-15-6-Inch-Quad-Core-i5-6300HQ-Pr... the price changes to 699$. Is this standard practice for amazon?

Same here. Interestingly the $799.99 non-incognito version stays the same price if you change the i5 to an i7. Possible bug?

the i5 and i7 heaving the same price makes sense because the i5 model comes with a ssd vs the i7 which comes with a hdd (hybrid).

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

#39

Hi all, I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio. LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I…

You missed an opportunity to use amazon referral links.

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#40

+1 for the minimal styling. Although I am starting to wonder if we could do a better job with the choice of colors and typography alone still living with the minimal CSS/JS trickery. One website that caught my attention made me bookmark for inspiration was http://recipes.177milkstreet.com/recipes/sticky-toffee-puddi... For their use of typography, usage of lines, hexagonal contrasting title bits. I am not a web desig…

Conversely, I prefer OP's styling over the one in the link you provided.

The design has a bit of confectionery about it! :)
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