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Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

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Post by gits1225 » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 6:36 AM UTC

sanderjd wrote: post #80

mynewtb wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> No to amazon affiliates. Thanks you! This shows character and actual, proper altruistic intentions. Before reading this, I was not even going to click the link.

Personally, I prefer not to use any project that has no way to make money. Life is expensive and time consuming. Projects require at least a little time and money. If that isn't reimbursed in any way, the rest of life will nearly always take precedent at some point. Affiliate links seem like a good way to solve this. I don't see where the conflict of interest lies.

I want myself and others to contribute because of the desire to contribute. I don't want to bring affiliates into the equation lest it brings the wrong incentives (however glimmering it may be).

There are other ways to make money.

Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

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Post by gits1225 » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 6:39 AM UTC

JCharante wrote: post #73

I'm not exactly sure how it'd be implemented with the current design, but I'd think it'd be useful to have a query in the URL so you could link http://abyjames.com/projects/recommendations?query=Books to just show books, rather than pointing someone to http://abyjames.com/projects/recommendations and asking them to type in "Books".

Yea. I built the basic idea. I'll be building features one by one. Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

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Post by gits1225 » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 6:42 AM UTC

mrleinad wrote: post #86

First thought was to search for Billy G, but it seems you haven't included him yet.

These recommendations are from people I follow, and I'll be gradually adding people one recommendation a time.

I couldn't find relevant information on Google for Billy G. Do you mind sharing his profile?

Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

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Post by gits1225 » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 6:43 AM UTC

bhelkey wrote: post #83

When I searched for 'Software', all of Joel Spolsky's recommendations showed up because the word 'Software' is in his source URL.

Yea. This is a wart. I'll be fixing it.

Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

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Post by gits1225 » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 6:47 AM UTC

Jugurtha wrote: post #85

- Someone compiled a list called "Andreessen's Favorite Books": https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mmEKySwi0iYjWx_DoigL... - I compiled a list (see comment on video) from a trailer video for John Doerr's "Measure What Matters": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aW5gdRRn_U

I was going to add Andreessen's recommendations this week. This helps!

Thanks for pulling the book recommendations. I'll add 'em this week as well.

Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

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Post by gits1225 » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 6:53 AM UTC

jasonb05 wrote: post #74

Thanks, very useful!

You are welcome : )

Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

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Post by gits1225 » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 8:45 AM UTC

louisswiss wrote: post #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!

I made it obvious. Let me know if this is clear: http://abyjames.com/projects/recommendations/.

Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

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Post by gits1225 » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 8:45 AM UTC

groby_b wrote: post #77

gits1225 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is (but I see it is not obvious). Click on the person's name. I changed the header name from person to source. Does that make it obvious?

Somewhat more. Maybe change it to "Source article" so people know there's actual text behind that? Clicking on a name, I'd expect either a bio, or a list of things they recommended. It didn't occur to me it might be the original recommendation. (But then, it might just be lack of coffee :) Either way, thank you for building this and collecting the data!

I made it obvious. Let me know if this is clear: http://abyjames.com/projects/recommendations/.

Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

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Post by swaggyBoatswain » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 11:28 AM UTC

lolptdr wrote: post #88

swaggyBoatswain wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont use any single recommendation source anymore for this reason. Its always a combination od youtube, amazon recommendations and reviews, reddit, and stackexchange sites.

Great idea. Crowdsourcing is good but averaging out crowdsources of crowdsources is a better way to understand the general sentiment of the population.

Ya theres also alternativeto.net, producthunt, wappylzer, slant for software too. Also bpproductansphoto reviews, bestbuy reviews, and googlereviews.

Then you can also do SEO analytics on site for domain authority too, that tells you roughly how many people use it vs other software. Or check how old a site is, how old a video is etc

Re: Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

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Post by mrleinad » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 11:42 AM UTC

gits1225 wrote: post #93

mrleinad wrote: post #86

First thought was to search for Billy G, but it seems you haven't included him yet.

These recommendations are from people I follow, and I'll be gradually adding people one recommendation a time. I couldn't find relevant information on Google for Billy G. Do you mind sharing his profile?

It's Bill Gates