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Show HN: FiveStar.io – The best Amazon products, by budget

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Re: Show HN: FiveStar.io – The best Amazon products, by budget

#22

I dont get it... doesn't amazon already have searching by price/rating?

Amazon does, but I find their results rather wonky at times. Filtering by rating works fine, but sorting on price seems to rarely work right -- they are often way out of order. Also filtering on price doesn't seem to work very well either.

On this, I would guess the price range categorization makes that more absolute. I would play with it more but I don't really have time right now.

Re: Show HN: FiveStar.io – The best Amazon products, by budget

#25

Some or all of the item prices seem to be based on the lowest "Used" price. This is not always ideal -- I am not about to buy a bookcase normally around $50 from the one seller that has it at $12. Being able to exclude used prices would be great. Otherwise great UI and idea.

Doesn't matter, got your browser cookied with the affiliate program. ;)

Re: Show HN: FiveStar.io – The best Amazon products, by budget

#28

Each key press adds to the push state history. Spams the back button

Is this really the top comment on this thread? And I thought HN had come so far.

This is an amazing website! Kudos to the creator(s).

It's exactly the way I wish I could browse Amazon, and since it's currently swallowing the HN firehose, I'm impressed that it's up and working. Given that it's so useful I will actually use it for shopping from now on, I feel like we can definitely cut it some slack on its day-one execution.

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