Show HN: Rotten Tomatoes for Amazon products • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Rotten Tomatoes for Amazon products

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Post by bradknowles » Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 11:15 PM UTC

pierc3 wrote: post #10

bradknowles wrote: post #7

Except we can't trust any of the ratings on Amazon, so what are you going to metafilter on?

Interesting. What reviews do you personally find to be the most trustworthy?

ConsumerReports.com is reliable.

TheWireCutter.com is reasonably reliable and are up-front about their use of affiliate links.

At least some of the mainstream consumer periodicals are reasonably reliable, like PC World and MacWorld.

You could do a MetaFilter-like combination of those review sites.

But Amazon.com is notoriously unreliable for reviews. As is most any other e-commerce platform or shopping site with integrated reviews.

Re: Show HN: Rotten Tomatoes for Amazon products

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Post by chrisco255 » Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 5:27 AM UTC

pierc3 wrote: post #9

chrisco255 wrote: post #8

One comment I've got is you might want to give users the option to receive notifications and updates for when you add new product categories. Or write frequent blog posts about it. I can see it being marginally entertaining to read about various things I may / may not be in the market for. It's a clean UI and much more pleasurable than browsing Amazon!

Thanks for the kind words. When you say "when you add new product categories", are you referring to the collections ( https://bestbestlist.com/collections )? Or do you just mean new list pages in general? I'm trying to add new lists pretty frequently so I would hate to flood someone with updates on a bunch of things they may not care about (e.g. laundry detergent when maybe you don't do your own laundry, kitchen tool…

Maybe notifications on collections, or give users the option to subscribe to email updates / push notifications. I think what you've got here reminds me of those SkyMall magazines they used to have on the planes that are sort of interesting to read through in a way that browsing Amazon isn't. So, I really think you can get a better visitor return rate if you keep people coming back with updates.

Re: Show HN: Rotten Tomatoes for Amazon products

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Post by techaddict009 » Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 9:18 AM UTC

pierc3 wrote: post #2

Hey HN, I wanted to share a tool I built to scratch my own itch. I call it Best Best List and the aim is to answer "what product should I buy?" in a similar way that Rotten Tomatoes answers "what should I watch?" i.e. by summarizing the opinions of lots of other critics/websites. https://bestbestlist.com It has been working really well for everyday, kind of "mundane" products that you would get on Amazon. Say for ins…

So are your aggregating all these reviews manually? Or using some scripts to aggregate them all?

And how are you updating the price? I have seen some affiliate program guidelines that you can not show old the prices of the product. So are you live updating them or how?