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See my comment above for a model that seems to be working really well for a similar site.
Comments orders shift over time, making this reply rather useless. Please provide a link if you're going to cite another comment.
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See my comment above for a model that seems to be working really well for a similar site.
If you're going to plug a site that works well, you should link to the site, I guess. I want to see it... maybe.
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>Stainless steel frying pan instead of nonstick frying pans where the non stick coating wears off. Cast iron even better. that's misleading if not outright wrong. the counterpart to nonstick is not cast iron or stainless steel -- it's carbon steel. carbon steel pans compare well to nonstick when seasoned (good woks are still carbon steel, and you can still find good carbon steel skillet pans, just not by lodge).
Which pans would you recommend? I have found non stick ones to be garbage because the coating gets scratched. I have a SS pan but its super sticky even with oil. My cast iron one works well and is fairly non stick but a pain to clean.
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I love the idea, but the site needs some more work. For example, on an iPhone with chrome I’m unable to actually search for anything (there is no “search” button on the keyboard on the search bar. I can enter text but it just sits there. Possibly incorrect annotations on the widget?).
Could you try again? I made some changes and tested it on Chrome and Firefox.
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How to build the next Google: all good results these days are within communities, and Google search has become useless for most of these searches. So don't build a search engine: build a "rotten tomatoes for X" where the sources for each X are "the top N subreddits/communities/editorial-sites/forums for X". For example, supplements: examine.com, reddit /r/supplements /r/nootropics (long tail ones), wikipedia, etc. Th…
I think wikipedia, HN, etc. are less suseptible because people don't use those sites as heavily to make purchasing decisions. Any community that helps with purchasing will be targeted by those interested in sales who figure out how to meet the "high bar" no matter what that may be. Even purchase verification isn't high enough these days (see recent unsolicited package scams such as the seeds from China).
However, at some point the whole review process might become unusable for legitimate users, resulting in too few reviews, rendering the whole endeavour futile.
E.g. if a shitty product earns a seller 20US$, and they expect to sell exactly 100 more over a site like this, then they can easily invest 1000 US$ into trying to make their product seem good, even if it isn't.
Thinking of this, by that reasoning a non-negligible part of the high cost of good quality products might also stem from the fact that advertising genuinely good quality must be expensive like hell (I guess).
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How to build the next Google: all good results these days are within communities, and Google search has become useless for most of these searches. So don't build a search engine: build a "rotten tomatoes for X" where the sources for each X are "the top N subreddits/communities/editorial-sites/forums for X". For example, supplements: examine.com, reddit /r/supplements /r/nootropics (long tail ones), wikipedia, etc. Th…
I had a similar idea: build a kind of "stackexchange" of search engines. You start with a "generic" search engine infrastructure, and each community runs its own instance, tweaked accordingly. This would mean: * The community chooses what goes in the search database, the rules for the crawler etc. * People in the community can vote on stuff, etc. * The engine can be customized to have some "semantic" understanding of…
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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…
I never liked battery powered tools, because I tend to use them rarely. The battery is almost always dead when I want to use one. Then I have to delay whatever I want to work on to charge one. Assuming that they still hold a charge, which they may not. A corded tool, I can leave in a box for 3 years, then pick up, plug in, and run it all day if I need to, then put it away for another few years, and never have to worr…