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Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

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Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

#12
This seems handy, I used to like checking out /r/buyitforlife, but rather than product recommendations, it seems to be plagued by old products that are still working, and you cannot buy anymore, a running joke on the subreddit is "Lasted until now" instead of buy it for life.

The links to company pages and storefronts is big bonus for this site over that community

Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

#16
Great idea. I just left a review. Was asked to register after reviewing. I registered and was brought back to the product page with no review on the page.

I expected the review to be posted. If it's in a moderation queue I'd expect to see a message indicating that's the case. And if the review didn't get saved I probably wouldn't leave another one.

Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

#18

How do you plan on keeping out fake reviews?

Yeah this is cool, but if it gets any traction I'd expect the fake reviews to quickly make the site useless without a ton of investment into spam detection. Given that Amazon sucks at this as a trillion dollar company with purchase data, I don't have much hope for a new startup or personal project (not sure which it is), but I'd really love to be proven wrong.

To be honest I was hoping it was even more like RottenTomatoes, focused on aggregating credible professional reviews of products (like RT focuses on professional critics, though they do also have user reviews).

Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

#20
Looks great! I've been looking for something like this. Easy to navigate. Clean. Not too information dense. I think the only suggestion I could make would be to weight the scores by the number of reviews. I personally think a product with 100 reviews and an aggregate rating of 4 is probably a better product than one that has a single review of 5.
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