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Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#62

Post by gooseus »

Pretty sweet, good job outta you!

One thing, I'd love to be able to filter by which knives are legal in my city (NYC). An approximation that might be easier than adding jurisdiction white/black lists/flags to the data might be specific custom filters.

For instance, in NYC I think the law is against locking blades and blades over a certain blade length. So a quick apply of those filter parameters would do a decent job of removing the items that would be illegal to buy.

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#63

Post by Waterluvian »

gooseus wrote: post #62

Pretty sweet, good job outta you! One thing, I'd love to be able to filter by which knives are legal in my city (NYC). An approximation that might be easier than adding jurisdiction white/black lists/flags to the data might be specific custom filters. For instance, in NYC I think the law is against locking blades and blades over a certain blade length. So a quick apply of those filter parameters would do a decent job…

I wonder if this, while being a really good idea, is next to impossible without some serious liability concerns. A lot of the time the law does not enumerate specific models of weapon, and there end up being grey areas where a weapon could possibly be characterized as having a banned trait.

Though it may work as you’ve described it: don’t have searches for “is legal in X?” But rather provide search for those criteria. Plus a big legal disclaimer that it could be wrong.

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#64

Post by exhilaration »

When I search for "Folding blade" and blade length "0-3 in", I only get 7 results from your site. A similar search on BladeHQ gets me 12,000+ results.

I think you have too few knives labeled as folding -- I don't see any Spydercos or Kershaws that come back with the folding checkbox, and only a few CRKTs. A quick fix might be to hide the folding checkbox.

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#65

Post by hubraumhugo »

quaxar wrote: post #17

I'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…

Adding to this: Getting people to write reviews on your own platform will be hard, but there are a ton of knife enthusiasts on Reddit and we've aggregated their opinions on Looria. Happy to give you access to this data if you're interested :)

r/Knifeclub: https://www.looria.com/reddit/knifeclub/products

r/Knives: https://www.looria.com/reddit/knives/products

r/EDC: https://www.looria.com/reddit/edc/products

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#67

Post by zrobotics »

hubraumhugo wrote: post #65
quaxar wrote: post #17

I'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…

Adding to this: Getting people to write reviews on your own platform will be hard, but there are a ton of knife enthusiasts on Reddit and we've aggregated their opinions on Looria. Happy to give you access to this data if you're interested :) r/Knifeclub: https://www.looria.com/reddit/knifeclub/products r/Knives: https://www.looria.com/reddit/knives/products r/EDC: https://www.looria.com/reddit/edc/products

Wow, very cool site. Searching for some highly gamed products like graphics cards brings up ratings from multiple sites, not just reddit, and gives realistic results. It seems like it's human-curated for now though, searching for "tap" or "tap set" doesn't bring up anything at all, although the search for "tap" brings up tape measures.

Plus, this comment is how you do marketing well, not pushing your own site at all but adding something helpful to the discussion. I'm definitely impressed with my initial look at the site.

Back on topic, I really like all the different search parameters, but especially for knives you should probably have a price min/max slider. When I was last looking for a knife, it was a PITA since many of the enthusiast recommendations were focused on $200+ and hand-forged one-off knives. I know price is way harder to filter by, but that would be a genuinely useful addition since when I was shopping I knew that I wasn't going to spend over 150 but I also wasn't interested in anything under 30 since it was almost certainly junk.

The knife geek site is super impressive though, I really like how fast and responsive the UI is, especially if this is a weekend project.

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#68

Post by donatj »

Somewhat related - I received what I thought was a really nice Buck Knife for Christmas from my father who is notoriously frugal.

On returning home, I am curious what my dad paid for such a nice knife so I go on Buck’s website and cannot find it nor anything with a similar shape. I look to the box for a model number, nothing. No information on the box at all other than the logo and some talk of how amazing the warranty is. I scanned the barcode on the box, no results.

Then I get curious and Google “counterfeit Buck knife” and eventually I find a Reddit thread pointing me towards an Alibaba Express listing which is my exact knife sans Buck logo on the blade.

I am really curious where my dad got the knife, but I don’t want to bring it up to him. It’s still a very nice looking and feeling knife, we’ll see how the blade holds up of course.

All this is to say that I had no idea this whole underworld of counterfeit knives existed.

Re: Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

#69

Post by dsr_ »

First check: Spyderco R C67

Result: Spyderco R C67 GFP shows up, but not the original knife or any of the other variants.

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Second check: Benchmade mini AFCK

Result: found three variants, two of which are the same 812S.

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Third check: A.G. Russell Lightweight One-Hand Knife

Result: no A.G. Russell knives.

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Fourth check: Kershaw Leek

Result: found 10 variants, none of which is the base model.

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Fifth check: Gerber E Z Out

Result: found 4 variants, none of which is the base model.

I own all of these knives. None of them is particularly exotic; they are all factory-made, with the smallest batch being 1200 for the R variant that I have, and probably many thousands for the Gerber and the Kershaw

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