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Re: Show HN: ThingsOnReddit – Products linked to on Reddit

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Post by guohuang »

kfriede wrote: post #7

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).

our site was also rejected from amazon affiliate a couple times due to the same problem, eventually we changed the content and get passed, I wrote a medium post for that, https://medium.com/@guohuang/how-we-got-rejected-from-amazon...

so don't give up, just keep trying

Re: Show HN: ThingsOnReddit – Products linked to on Reddit

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Post by guohuang »

great idea, while we were doing toptalkedbooks.com, my partner and I were thinking about doing the exact same thing for our next project. Nice UI, good execution, good luck!

just one friendly note: our site was rejected by amazon a couple time,(due to content issue), I hope your path is smoother.

Re: Show HN: ThingsOnReddit – Products linked to on Reddit

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Post by czue »

justboxing wrote: post #27
brudolph wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Thanks for the details. > 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.

Agreed this is amazing and inspiring. Well done!

Re: Show HN: ThingsOnReddit – Products linked to on Reddit

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Post by Moter8 »

kfriede wrote: post #35
johnwheeler wrote: post #22

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This is not nearly a direct copy of your product. This one features a well designed UX that immediately engages and encourages further exploration. Yours made me bounce in 2 seconds.

A product can still be copied in functionality without being copied in design. The general premise (product recommendations from Reddit) is the same. I also agree my UX is bad. I have been meaning to pivot with all the data I already have but haven't gotten there yet. Not complaining, competition is good. Just giving warning and bringing up discussion.

I searched for laptop (as suggested) and got webcams and other stuff, doesn't really seem curated at all?
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