I want to be able to sort by number of reviews
Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
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#32A lot of BOSS pedals probably belong here.
Meanwhile, the keys on old keyboards make you wish MIDI existed in the 70s. Once saw a Farfisa in a guitar store. Its keys died of lung cancer. Even if the keys were restored the sound was weaker than hot water with a single coffee bean floating in it.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#33Cool project. How do you intend to keep ratings aligned with durability rather than “I bought this a few weeks ago and really like it so I’ll give it 5 stars!”?
The weight of the rating will be weighted based on the "years owned" of a review and the trustworthiness score of the reviewer.
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#34Nice! I'd add dr martens made in UK series
You can submit it by using the brand-submission form here: https://www.buyforlifeproducts.com/submission/brands
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#35Nice idea, technically it works great!
Thanks, glad you like it :)
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#36looks great. The one thing I would recommend would be some sort of footer at the bottom of the page. I thought scroll wasn't working until I just realized I was at the bottom
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#37A few months ago, I began developing the Buy For Life platform. It started as a simple list where people could add brands that manufacture durable products. It now evolved into a full platform with aggregated product reviews from all over the web, discussions, and various metrics to calculate a score for each brand and product. I want to help people finding the most durable and sustainable products in the world. It s…
I love this idea. I own a couple of items on the list now (Le Creuset Dutch Oven, and Kitchenaid Mixer) and I can attest to their durability.
I think your idea of cost per month is good for things you use often. One thing I've been thinking about lately as I've undertaken a medium-sized kitchen renovation is the cost of ownership of tools. Since I'm not a professional I can't take a cost per month approach since I may not use the tool for many months at a time.
Instead I've been thinking about two things:
1. How many hours of operation can I get out of this tool? If I amortize those hours over my lifetime, will I ever have to buy the tool again? In this case a mid-range tool may be an A+ for me, but a B- for a professional.
2. What is the lifetime of a battery-powered version of the tool? I'm avoiding battery-powered tools (with a few exceptions, I'm looking at you power drill) because I'm concerned the batteries will fail before the tool does.
My ideal situation is that I buy these items once and never need to replace them. As an amateur, I should be able to do that without buying the most expensive tool. As a professional, I probably already have preferences and a strong opinion anyway.
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#38Great idea! Search bar at the top isn't working for me (Chrome on macOS). When I hit return, nothing happens.
It currently doesn't show results if there is no match. I.e. if you start typing "Pata" it will suggest "Patagonia".
But I must admit that this is a bad user experience, will improve it soon :)
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#39I would change shipping to "Availability" which is a list of country tags. Great idea, bookmarking it
Great idea, I will add this improvement to my backlog.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#40A few months ago, I began developing the Buy For Life platform. It started as a simple list where people could add brands that manufacture durable products. It now evolved into a full platform with aggregated product reviews from all over the web, discussions, and various metrics to calculate a score for each brand and product. I want to help people finding the most durable and sustainable products in the world. It s…
attempted to add an item. Here's my thoughts:
first, adding an item is a LOT of labor to enter data that's freely available from amazon's APIs for most products you're going to encounter.
not only would this be _much_ easier if you just allowed me to paste in an amazon link, or name that you searched for on amazon, you could also easily generate affiliate links and make money. I used _my_ affiliate link for the product link because... why wouldn't I? except now that i look at the products i see there aren't any links? Why wouldn't you offer links to go buy these things, doubly so when you could profit from it AND make life easier for users without costing them anything.
obviously there needs to be a fallback mechanism to handle things that aren't sold on amazon.
you ask for a weight in kg or lb, thus suggesting a desire to cater to international audiences but then you don't have a currency for price.
"BIFL Score" is something i can guess but is never actually defined. Don't make users think.
when i submit it asks for an email address, but you already HAVE my email address from when i signed in. You could just make this a checkbox "do you want to be notified when we add this?"
Some products seem to have multiple categories but i could only select one. These seem conceptually like tags so i don't know why it's a pull-down instead of a multi-select or some other multiple choice thing.