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I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time
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Re: I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time
#32Clicked on a random link and was pleasantly surprised with what I found. Not sure I would do it again though. Caught me at a good time. Peaked my interest. And bam. Gone again.
We have rank change notifications, personalised feeds based on your interests, and weekly digests already — signing up unlocks all of that. Glad it peaked your interest.
Re: I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time
#33Looks done to me, no need to lose more time. Just needs a business model. Best business model for you is "managed content", allow companies to disguise their own ads as ads for your site. I.E. car company pays you to generate a "which is better" between two of their car models and embed it into an ad.
Thanks! Business model is already live — companies can claim their page (£99/mo for analytics, respond to reviews, manage their listing) and buy promoted placements that are clearly labelled as sponsored. Rankings themselves can never be bought. The trust is the product.
Re: I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time
#34Looks done to me, no need to lose more time. Just needs a business model. Best business model for you is "managed content", allow companies to disguise their own ads as ads for your site. I.E. car company pays you to generate a "which is better" between two of their car models and embed it into an ad.
Clever. And since its subtle its not like the usual amped up noise blurb of many ads. But what if your product loses? Fake votes to make your Ford F-150 win vs a Rivian?
Rankings are trust-weighted — account age, voting consistency, and cluster detection make ballot-stuffing impractical. Companies pay for analytics and visibility, not influence over scores.
Re: I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time
#35I saw a product, it had a 1 rating. I added a higher rating. The total rating went down... bug?
As always, the problem with this kind of site is that as soon as you gain any kind of traction the marketers and bots will come and ruin the rating reliability.
Re: I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time
#36I saw a product, it had a 1 rating. I added a higher rating. The total rating went down... bug? As always, the problem with this kind of site is that as soon as you gain any kind of traction the marketers and bots will come and ruin the rating reliability.
Not a bug but I understand why it looked like one. We just switched to Bayesian scoring to prevent low vote entities gaming the rankings. Your vote is counted, it just takes more votes for the displayed score to diverge from the baseline. UX is being improved. On the bots point: votes are trust-weighted (account age, consistency, cluster detection) specifically for that reason. Appreciate you reporting it.
Re: I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time
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Re: I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time
#38> What's actually the best?
Community-ranked products, services, and places. No ads, no paid placements. Just real opinions from real people.
Opinions from REAL people. No ads, no paid placements. - that is what I care.
Remove all metrics (numbers) for now. It looks like scam. You can add them later after initial phase of project.
Design: use base-ui and emilkowalski skills set for redesign. The user interface screams AI and ppl are starting to leave such sites quickly. (Churn rate is high.)
Domain: I would use something else. Io tld and missing “e” in peaked make it hard to remember/memorate.
Good luck with the project.
Re: I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time
#39I love your headline here :-)
Re: I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time
#40Looks done to me, no need to lose more time. Just needs a business model. Best business model for you is "managed content", allow companies to disguise their own ads as ads for your site. I.E. car company pays you to generate a "which is better" between two of their car models and embed it into an ad.
Clever. And since its subtle its not like the usual amped up noise blurb of many ads. But what if your product loses? Fake votes to make your Ford F-150 win vs a Rivian?
That's why you make sure the poll is two models sold by the same company.