Are swiss army knives not considered knives in the knife enthusiast circles?
Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives
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#32Forcing me to create an account after a certain amount of interaction without explaining what the account is for, or providing any information about how my personal data will be used is an antifeature. Depending on the jurisdiction, it may also be a legal issue. That said, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is a work in progress and that you'll be adding additional information about how you u…
That is a completely fair point, i'll bump up the interaction limit to 1000 while i figure out another way to rate limit interactions with the advanced search page. Yeah you're right, i've been working on this for two weeks so far and haven't thought that portion out yet. Will see if i can add some form of anonymous login to avoid needing an email. Just need the email to associate with an account to persist the colle…
You can do this with a persistent cookie. Of course the saved data won't transfer from device to device without a login. But username/password is sufficient for that so long as you don't allow freeform discussion. If you allow any kind of anonymous discussion then you've just created a new 4chan.
Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives
#33> Back then i noticed something, it was quite tedious to easily sift and search through knives based on length, steel, brand, and what not to find the knife for me
A lot of hobbies have this same problem. Dunno why there isn't a self-host solution. Something like https://pcpartpicker.com/ but flexible to any type of product/community
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#34Are swiss army knives not considered knives in the knife enthusiast circles?
Yes
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#35> Back then i noticed something, it was quite tedious to easily sift and search through knives based on length, steel, brand, and what not to find the knife for me A lot of hobbies have this same problem. Dunno why there isn't a self-host solution. Something like https://pcpartpicker.com/ but flexible to any type of product/community
There was a post the other day about this concept... open source databases for various datasets.
Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives
#36Are swiss army knives not considered knives in the knife enthusiast circles?
They are (though Leatherman style folders are more popular), but knives that don't lock in the open position aren't very popular.
Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives
#37How did you build the database? Were you able to piggy back off of existing efforts or did you go vendor to vendor, scraping your way?
Journey of a thousand miles and all that, but building the inventory feels like the most vital, yet boring part of the entire endeavor.
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#38I’m not much of a knife guy but have a couple and know what I’m looking for feature wise, less so on specific steel types.
But, proper drop downs would help a lot, I can’t always remember all the terms.
And, once I’ve found a knife, showing one’s with similar features would be really cool.
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#39Wow! Thank you! It’s an interesting (and expensive!) hobby. I’m not sure how realistic this is, but I always wanted to be able to search for knives “with similar shapes”. Like “knives with fat a belly” or something like that. If there exists good knife silhouettes it may be possible! Either way congrats on the great site!
Thank you! Actually thats a great idea and should be doable! I already do some analysis on the images. Will take a stab at it in the next few days and post back here.
> Will take a stab at it
Well done, sir
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#40I'm a knife collector, so this site seems cool. One thing that can be improved is how the knives are displayed. The white aliased border around the thumbnails looks really really bad, and really turns me off from staying on the site. One major reason why people like knives is that they look beautiful. The image thumbnail does the complete opposite. Please use 24bit PNG with proper alpha, on a lighter background, so b…
> The white aliased border around the thumbnails looks really really bad, and really turns me off from staying on the site.
That is completely fair, looking into ways to improve the images now. Agreed that blades are quite beautiful and the website should do em more justice. Thanks a ton for the input!