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Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

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Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

#3
Nice!

I have a request though - could you make it more obvious that clicking on the name of the recommender takes you to their review/the context of why they recommended the item?

That wasn't obvious to me at all, but it's often really useful to understand why the person recommended the item in the first place, and what you should expect to get out of it...

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

#9
I truly hope it works out well for you. My personal response:

* I don't know what is meant by "good" people; I'd choose a different term.

* My impression is recommendations from "famous" people, which don't interest me personally. Famous people aren't necessarily smart and unless a topic is in their specific domain, they have no more to contribute that the average person. (Personally, I find the idolization of famous people as 'smarter than thou' to be disturbing and unhealthy; they are no better than gits1225 and I'd like to see their recommendations too.)

* I would be very interested in seriously thought out recommendations by experts in their domains. For example, for a desk chair, I'd be interested in an anonymous chair designer's recommendation. For a history book, I'd be interested in an historian's recommendation. I'm not any more interested in a famous coder's recommendation for a chair or a history book than I am in any other coder's recommendation. (To be fair, some of the famous people are experts making recommendations in their domains.)

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