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Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives

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

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So this might be tricky, but seeing as there are different laws about carrying knifes, it might be a good idea to start to collect laws by jurisdictions, so that users do not end up wanting what they cannot legal have.

There are more than 50 jurisdictions in the US alone. Massachusetts has a particularly odd law, which was apparently written by a staffer who had just watched too many Shaw Brothers wuxia films:

Whoever manufactures or causes to be manufactured, or sells or exposes for sale, an instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as a dirk knife, a switch knife or any knife having an automatic spring release device by which the blade is released from the handle, having a blade of over one and one-half inches or a device or case which enables a knife with a locking blade to be drawn at a locked position, any ballistic knife, or any knife with a detachable blade capable of being propelled by any mechanism, slung shot, sling shot, bean blower, sword cane, pistol cane, bludgeon, blackjack, nunchaku, zoobow, also known as klackers or kung fu sticks, or any similar weapon consisting of two sticks of wood, plastic or metal connected at one end by a length of rope, chain, wire or leather, a shuriken or any similar pointed starlike object intended to injure a person when thrown, or a manrikigusari or similar length of chain having weighted ends; or metallic knuckles or knuckles of any other substance which could be put to the same use and with the same or similar effect as metallic knuckles, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months; provided, however, that sling shots may be manufactured and sold to clubs or associations conducting sporting events where such sling shots are used.

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

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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 warran…

It's huge, especially for premium, arguably overpriced US brands like Benchmade, Spyderco, and Microtech.

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

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A permalink option would be great. More generally, putting search parameters in the URL would be great, for basic browser features like open-in-new-tab, bookmark, etc....

Something else that might help is merging aliases for steel types. "Magnacut" and "CPM Magnacut" are the same thing because all Magnacut is made by Crucible with a powder metallurgy process. This is error-prone though; "D2" and "CPM D2" are not the same thing, and the powder version has substantially increased toughness.

Next-level: let people search by groups of steels that are essentially copies of each other. M390, 20CV, and 204P are made by different companies, but the chemistry and powder metallurgy processes are nearly identical, producing nearly identical results.

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

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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…

There are a few sites that summarize knife laws, for example:

https://www.akti.org/state-knife-laws/

https://knifeup.com/knife-laws/

They do, of course include disclaimers that they're not offering legal advice. I think attempting to combine that with a parametric search might be more legally risky, as it makes a specific statement of "X knife is legal in Y jurisdiction", which people might act on without further interpretation or analysis.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 The hover effect, too. Nice experiment to learn something, now it's time to burn it with fire.

This made me laugh quite a bit, took over an hour to do that hover thing and i felt fancy for it too. I just removed it as i agree it looks a little shoddy

It's better, but I think maybe your browser isn't rendering things the same way mine is, so I took a screenshot for you. There's transparency issues with the knife images, which I bet is part of why the hover looked so bad for me, and why you're getting complaints about the visuals. I'm guessing it doesn't look the same for you.

This is chrome on ubuntu: https://imgbox.com/mCWq87NW

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

#79
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 what a dope service, love it.

I'd love to get access to the data, can totally drop a "Powered by looria" thing on the site as well :D

Can you shoot an email to hello@knifegeek.io w some details? Can take a CSV, JSON, api access, or whatever!

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

#80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Actually i've got the price data all in the DB but was just worried it would get out of sync pretty often and since i've only got a few sources.

Once i've got more sources per knife i'll go ahead and add in "Where to buy" links as well as pricing filters!

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