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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
#62A 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…
Good idea. Thanks for making that site. I am an asshole. I copy&pasted a fake 5 star review from Amazon, using a fake account. Do you have a plan to stop brands from doing this to you?
This was the first question that occurred to me.
Just a couple of days ago I needed to buy another iphone USB-lightning cable. If you want to get a sense of just how broken Amazon reviews are, try searching for one of these. It's a nightmare minefield of 4.7+ rated products that have these highly dubious 5 star ratings, but with a telltale sizeable chunk of recent 1 star reviews.[1] So I ended up having to also check various meta-review sites or other product review sites just to to buy a stupid cable. For certain product categories, reviews have become mostly noise.
[1] I tend to discount really effusive, highly detailed 5 star reviews for basically mundane products. "This ethernet cable was both highly attractive and yet lighter than others I've bought in the past. I plugged it in and it immediately started working! I was amazed!"
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#63I attempted to signup with my google account. Firefox pops up a window briefly which then closes. I'm running on ubuntu, firefox with umatrix & ublock origin.
Problem persists with addons turned off so perhaps you've been HNs DOSed.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
The weight of the rating will be weighted based on the "years owned" of a review and the trustworthiness score of the reviewer.
How do you manage trustworthiness? This is an issue I've been thinking about for quite some time and haven't found a satisfactory solution to. I like this idea and a lot of similar information sharing sites but I find in today's environment, anything successful will be targeted by misinformation and gamed which makes it difficult to determine if the information was provided in an uninfluenfed manner from the product…
A strong community of invested users is achieving these goals of trustworthiness on a bargains aggregator site I use.
Any bs is quickly shot down by the users, typically within minutes. It is a hard crowd for someone not posting a true bargain!
Sockpuppets are detected nearly instantly as some blessed members check the post history of accounts and flag and suspicious or new accounts that are posting things that don't pass the sniff test.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 RottenTom…
How does having a "professional critic" only prevent you from getting fake reviews? It could easily be manipulated by companies paying reviewers for biased reviews. Same as sponsored YouTube reviewers. I think there might be some value in keeping it a niche community with known usernames and maybe moderators. Amazon reviews are not a community, and I think Amazon might not want to fix the issue as bad as we think. In…
> How does having a "professional critic" only prevent you from getting fake reviews? It could easily be manipulated by companies paying reviewers for biased reviews. Same as sponsored YouTube reviewers.
It doesn't of course, but (going back to the RT comparison) it would be a major scandal if it were ever discovered that a well-known professional movie critic were being paid off by a studio for biased reviews. A website that focused on this could keep track of and remove the special status of reviewers caught doing that. Given that obtaining the "professional reviewer" status is quite expensive (relative to making an RT account) and such people have much more to lose than a random user, I tend to trust the RT critic score much more than the user score.
If it's possible to establish a similarly robust reputation system for user reviews with no external source of validation (e.g. a newspaper/journal hiring someone as a reviewer) I'm definitely all for that! That seems much more difficult to me though. But maybe if it continues as a niche community as you say, it could work. I hope it does.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#66A 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 ma…
The batteries absolutely fail before the tools do. As long as you stick to a range (for me, Makita Lxt) you’ll just need a few working batteries between all your tools as a diyer. At least that’s what I’ve found. They slowly fall apart, but you still get fairly good value from them.
I started “collecting” tools a year ago and my first batteries are starting to go now. They’re actually still plenty good enough good enough for my impact driver (best tool ever) but they die too quickly in my chainsaw. Couldn’t say how many hours they’ve given me but it’s a lot.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#67Looks great. How do I create an account?
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#68Interesting, I hope you are onto something! How would you prevent me from taking some $ from Corporate to write a genuine sounding but heavily biased review? I am not trying to be snarky, but in my understanding that is exactly how micro-influencing on Instagram etc. works and IMO its very dangerous for your value proposition.
See my comment above for a model that seems to be working really well for a similar site.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#69This is a really great idea. Good job, it looks great. What kind of privacy can I expect if I sign in with my Google account?
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#70I wish there was a link to take me to buy the actual product