I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time

Good eye — done!

ood point — we're in the early cold-start phase. Working on a quick-vote mechanic (pick A vs B) to drive volume fast. Appreciate the feedback.

well it took 10s of second to load very little.

tapping on the muesli vs corn flakes comparison gave me no visual feedback to indicate it was ever going to do anything.

then it died.

when it came back I tried tapping on Visual Studio Code, expecting a page to come up but nothing happened. after enough time to flip back to hn and tap that sentence out (on my phone) and there was a page load happening. another 5s after that, a page with a lot of things on it but very little content appeared.

so a couple thoughts:

if you're going to manage page loads and nav with javascript, visual feedback is not optional. (better yet, don't do it with js at all. you don't have to go full SSR, just let your web server handle more of the effort)

every example you have there is going to boil down to personal preference or context dependence. like corn flakes vs museli, no one is going to make buying decisions based on that. there is no "better" only in that comparison, only "better for my situation". same goes for local businesses, IDEs, and whatever else. these scores don't tell me if it will work for me, only that it's popular. this is why the best review sites these days compare and present the results as "if you prefer X, then consider A. if you're on a budget but want Y, then B is a good choice." people want to know what's best for them. if you've got the data then frame a new users experience around "what are you looking for and what do you care about" rather than this zillionth hot-or-not-with-a-twist clone.

> visual studio appears to be highest rated product with 2 ratings

That's why Bayesian average is superior; if you don't have enough ratings you basically get assigned the average for all products (or, likely, all similar products in this case).