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Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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Needs to filter whether it can show HDMI 4K at 30Hz or 60Hz. And related to that, for video, it’s possible to have 2 4K 60hz through or one or none. Also filter whether it’s one USB-C connects to computer or two USB-C connects to computer. With two USB-C connected to computer, can pass through more types of USB to accessories. Finally, it doesn’t show matches that I know are matches. // I buy these to test, but don’t…

USB-C sounds complicated...

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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Needs to filter whether it can show HDMI 4K at 30Hz or 60Hz. And related to that, for video, it’s possible to have 2 4K 60hz through or one or none. Also filter whether it’s one USB-C connects to computer or two USB-C connects to computer. With two USB-C connected to computer, can pass through more types of USB to accessories. Finally, it doesn’t show matches that I know are matches. // I buy these to test, but don’t…

Why are they making these so complicated when average people don't even make the difference between a VGA and DVI cable?

For a few years I didn't buy new hardware and recently I started seen "HDMI cables with / without ETHERNET" I thought it was some crappy marketing, wrong Chinese translation of just a "scam" like the HDMI to water tap adapter, but after looking on the internet I discovered it was real.

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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I 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…

I was thinking about the same. If there are any affiliate marketing people in here, can you tell us more about your workload, RoI, setup and problems? :D

Depends on the niche. Some work easily out (especially if its about products with an EAN), for others it works too, but you need manually processing, if you care to not only offer a comparing of Amazon products. The Amazon API is howevery very detailed and useful for product data. You look at the data provided and either try to "not care and add everything" or to form it to fit your scheme (imo the better way).

Issues are with marketing (SEO, useful text), malformed or wrong informations and normally there is no global valid usable database available to get all the data. Sometimes I depend on crawling, so websites changing break normally price-updating. By using an API its not such much a hassle, but also using the API sometimes product ids change and you have to keep it updated to not end up with a broken website.

I created Keyfuchs[1], a german / english price comparing website for game key prices and we mostly manually write the texts, half-automatically crawl the different stores and try to set it up nicely for our users.

[1]https://www.keyfuchs.de / https://www.thegamefox.net

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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For choosing the right product based on a list of spec requirements I can highly recommend the price comparison website Geizhals [1]. They offer an insane amount of filter options over a wide category of products. Want USB C hub with Power Delivery, Gigabit LAN, a card reader and at least 2 display options? Here are your options: [2]. Also works for Mainboards, TVs and a whole lot of other stuff [1] https://geizhals.…

This one is my favorite site of this type: https://www.productchart.com It has an awesome interface and covers the US and the UK.

Wow, good place to go while suffering from Gear Acquisition Syndrome.

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

#235

For choosing the right product based on a list of spec requirements I can highly recommend the price comparison website Geizhals [1]. They offer an insane amount of filter options over a wide category of products. Want USB C hub with Power Delivery, Gigabit LAN, a card reader and at least 2 display options? Here are your options: [2]. Also works for Mainboards, TVs and a whole lot of other stuff [1] https://geizhals.…

For UK: https://skinflint.co.uk/

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

#237

This is really cool. One more bit of data that would be helpful: cord length. Almost all of these have short cords that are great for portable use cases, but not ideal for use at a desk.

+1 for a filter for units with a removable cord to the computer. I want all this junk mounted out of the way, not 3 inches from the computer.

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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I've been working for 2 years on a successor for productchart! Modern UI and KISS, check it out here : https://picked.cc

How can you reduce phones to a single checkbox that says whether they're "intuitive" or not?

I reduce iPhone and stock Android to "intuitive", since it's the #1 criteria for most tech-savy users.

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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I've been working for 2 years on a successor for productchart! Modern UI and KISS, check it out here : https://picked.cc

In the camera section, what does "tropicalise" filter?

It's a common denomination for environmental seal. Similar to IP67.

Re: Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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Type-C says that there can't be type-c hubs. Just wait for some Chinese OEM to work that around

> Type-C says that there can't be type-c hubs. Where does it say that? I've seen a lot of posts claiming just the opposite. You can't just take a setup designed for type-A ports and mechanically convert them to type-C, because that would allow you to make an A-to-A connection. But that's not a blocker for a properly-designed hub.

It's buried somewhere in the spec, using evasive wording.

I bet this is fully artificial limitation sneaked into the spec by people not wanting "stuff working without PCs"

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