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I built an online database for the best "Buy It For Life" products

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Re: I built an online database for the best "Buy It For Life" products

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Good on the author for putting something out in the world. I'd love a site like this to exist with data I can trust. I think this is missing the mark on the execution side a bit. To start, there are only 8 items. They all appear to be stuff the author personally likes with no research or other quantifying data to back up these recommendations. In fact, there are more categories than items? It takes upwards of 10 seco…

The website is supposed to be crowdsourced. I want users to create accounts and upload their own products that they trust. The only products on the site right now are the ones I've been able to co-sign myself. My mum even added some products on the site that she's found to be super reliable. I don't really want to just pull data from some third party and flood the website with products I or other people haven't actua…

Put yourself in the shoes of someone arriving at your website for the first time. What reason do they have for signing up an account and adding products to your database? A product like this needs an incentive, a hook.

Sometimes that incentive is financial. Sometimes it’s prestige through points, votes or badges. Sometimes it’s power through moderation rights. What’s yours?

Re: I built an online database for the best "Buy It For Life" products

#32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also Ray-Ban for $220, another Kara submission. Bad price to quality ratio.

That’s my mum who submitted that. She was submitting from the perspective of stylistically timeless goods. The wayfarer is a staple pair of glasses that never goes out of fashion

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Re: I built an online database for the best "Buy It For Life" products

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BTW, there is also a subreddit called r/BuyItForLife, looks like this is inspired by that subreddit.

I personally like the idea of the subreddit, though unfortunately it seems to be pretty USA-centric. There are brands that just doesn't exist in my country, personally.

Also, there seems to be advertisement? Personally it's better for website like this to stay away from advertisement... almost defeats the purpose

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