Seems similar to the wire cutter no?
Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
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Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#152A few months ago, I began developing the Buy For Life platform. It started as a simple list where people could add brands that manufacture durable products. It now evolved into a full platform with aggregated product reviews from all over the web, discussions, and various metrics to calculate a score for each brand and product. I want to help people finding the most durable and sustainable products in the world. It s…
attempted to add an item. Here's my thoughts: first, adding an item is a LOT of labor to enter data that's freely available from amazon's APIs for most products you're going to encounter. not only would this be _much_ easier if you just allowed me to paste in an amazon link, or name that you searched for on amazon, you could also easily generate affiliate links and make money. I used _my_ affiliate link for the produ…
what do you do about amazon changing products but using same SKUs? or counterfeit products in 1 shipment and 1 in not.
Amazon is the biggest offender in the buy it for now category i think
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the ship has sailed on the trustworthiness of online reviews from rando people. Pretty much every store or review site that aggregates user-submitted content has done a poor job of removing spam and fake reviews, and people are finally starting to realize how worthless the ratings are. Even if someone does crack this nut and figures it out, they won't be believed because of how fake everything has been for th…
>I think the best thing online stores can do at this point is just nuke all user-submitted ratings and reviews. They're 99% garbage. Yes, in order to re-start, but what then? The whole user reviews concept is bonkers, I would add that there are - besides "fake" reviews - "real" ones BUT written by clueless people (in good faith, but completely disconnected from an objective rating), and in this it is also way off the…
I think the "restart" goes back to trusted reviewers/companies offering reviews as their business. E.g. Consumer Reports, Wirecutter, etc.
Then it's entirely how much you trust the reviewers, and whether you agree with their matrics/tastes.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#154The search doesn't work.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great idea! List of more durable items: Stainless steel frying pan instead of nonstick frying pans where the non stick coating wears off. Cast iron even better. Plain bicycle without electric parts easier to recycle metal. Durable quality Screens drivers. Non electric espresso maker. Bailetto. Corded headphones no batteries that wear out. Changable parts. No wireless protocol that go obsolete. LifePo4 lithium iron ba…
> Stainless steel frying pan instead of nonstick frying pans where the non stick coating wears off. Cast iron even better. They're called nonstick for a reason; stainless steel does not compare. You'll have more sticking problems cooking eggs on a steel pan drowning in butter than on a (new) nonstick pan with minimal grease. I do own an 18th-century cast iron pan and it has pretty good seasoning. I use it for many th…
Stainless steel frying pans have their place, so I'm not sure why you're saying they "don't compare." Sure, they "don't compare" for a non-stick scrambled egg, but there are more things that get made in the kitchen.
For me personally, my most-used pans in order are my 12" cast iron, my 10" cast iron, my 12" All-clad stainless steel, my 6" cast iron, and my 6" non-stick is last, mostly for eggs.
Stainless is excellent for anything like a pasta sauce where you're starting with sautéing onions and such.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#156The website does not work and it is a malware.
>We're sorry but buyforlifeproducts doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.
You ask me to run your proprietary computer code in order to display text and images. HTML technology does support displaying of text, images, forms. The only reason to add JavaScript is to:
* record user mouse movements and keystrokes
* spy on his browser fingerprint
* use 0-day exploits on user
* add trackers, ads
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great idea! List of more durable items: Stainless steel frying pan instead of nonstick frying pans where the non stick coating wears off. Cast iron even better. Plain bicycle without electric parts easier to recycle metal. Durable quality Screens drivers. Non electric espresso maker. Bailetto. Corded headphones no batteries that wear out. Changable parts. No wireless protocol that go obsolete. LifePo4 lithium iron ba…
> Stainless steel frying pan instead of nonstick frying pans where the non stick coating wears off. Cast iron even better. They're called nonstick for a reason; stainless steel does not compare. You'll have more sticking problems cooking eggs on a steel pan drowning in butter than on a (new) nonstick pan with minimal grease. I do own an 18th-century cast iron pan and it has pretty good seasoning. I use it for many th…
100% -- I never use my stainless frying pans because they are such a nightmare to get food to release and clean up afterwards.
We use a cast iron and a nonstick - that's it. You can cover 95% of use cases with that.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#158What happens if your website gets popular, someday you lose your job and money, then some entities offer you a bribe to influence something on your site?
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#159A few months ago, I began developing the Buy For Life platform. It started as a simple list where people could add brands that manufacture durable products. It now evolved into a full platform with aggregated product reviews from all over the web, discussions, and various metrics to calculate a score for each brand and product. I want to help people finding the most durable and sustainable products in the world. It s…
Is it brand based, or product based? In the URL I see /brand/ and /product/.
I have trouble finding reliable floor lamp like [this](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/c38e8535-2ee2-477d-9e9a-836...). The base is almost always coming off after using for a few years so the whole thing is unstable.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#160A few months ago, I began developing the Buy For Life platform. It started as a simple list where people could add brands that manufacture durable products. It now evolved into a full platform with aggregated product reviews from all over the web, discussions, and various metrics to calculate a score for each brand and product. I want to help people finding the most durable and sustainable products in the world. It s…
Among the challenges for a site like this is the dimension of time. An outstanding brand one year can become a scourge five years later. But does the site's algorithm account for this?
This is real - lots of previous BiFL brands/products have gotten significantly diluted over time as the company cuts materials costs, etc.