Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon
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#2Nice! It looks pretty clean and I appreciate the affiliate toggle button.
What's the story behind this? (Very specific product ;))
I would suggest adding more margin vertically on cards and making them smaller for mobile.
Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon
#3It looks very cool :)
Is it open source? I'd love to contribute!
Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon
#4Awesome work. Having just gone through this for my company, I'd recommend a few valuable bits of information:
- Thunderbolt 3 support filter
- Power delivery capability (usually 60W-100W if at all)
Both of those are valuable for mac shoppers.
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#5Seems very nice. Is there a way to search for hubs that don't have a feature? I want a hub that has ethernet, but not hdmi, for example.
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#6oh goodness… yes, fine work, but this site rubs my hugest tech pet peeve today
There is not a single USB-C hub on this site. A USB-C hub would take one USB-C port and turn it into several USB-C ports.
These are what are called port replicators. There are no USB-C hubs in existence, which is a huge reason why the standard is still struggling.
Thank you for putting a selector for "how many USB-C ports" front and center, that at least illustrates the problem…
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#7I was thinking about adding few things to make it paid service:
- allow people to enter keywords describing product
- allow people to enter their own affiliate id
- allow people to generate short url to dynamically generated page showing above
All above would allow people to quickly generate and share chunks of specific amazon products to their following and monetize it.
You could either produce sidebar with your own ads or just charge for such service so it would be win-win for all
Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon
#8oh goodness… yes, fine work, but this site rubs my hugest tech pet peeve today There is not a single USB-C hub on this site. A USB-C hub would take one USB-C port and turn it into several USB-C ports. These are what are called port replicators. There are no USB-C hubs in existence, which is a huge reason why the standard is still struggling. Thank you for putting a selector for "how many USB-C ports" front and center…
(why are there no “real” USB-C hubs? some say that it is due to the lack of the existence of a chip that Intel is going to release "any time now" for like a year now… others say that the power delivery requirements of USB-C make this really tricky)
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#9Awesome work. Having just gone through this for my company, I'd recommend a few valuable bits of information: - Thunderbolt 3 support filter - Power delivery capability (usually 60W-100W if at all) Both of those are valuable for mac shoppers.
Not only for macs... I have 4 raspberry pi4 powered through an USB hub and spent quite a bit of time looking for one that had at least 4 ports and that every port could deliver a minimum of 5V-3A. The US amazon had a few, but trying to find them (or similar) in several european Amazons was quite difficult.
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#10This is great. I always wonder why amazon itself is so useless in this space. The only thing you can go is price and reviews there, without any good comparisons between products.