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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

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Post by Reedx »

hubraumhugo wrote: post #58
0goel0 wrote: post #52

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23030451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22804573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22717494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22523434 And more

I constantly tried to get feedback to validate the idea. As I mentioned before, it started as a simple list of brands and has now evolved into a full platform, thanks to feedback from users :) It seems that HackerNews user want a certain maturity of a product/website.

There's also just a huge amount of randomness involved. It's common for a story get posted a bunch of times, all ignored, then on the nTH submission it happens to get traction and hits the front page.

Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

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Post by quacked »

masukomi wrote: post #40
hubraumhugo wrote: post #2

A 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…

I disagree with your input about adding affiliate links, because I think that they would end up working contrary to the goal of this project. Sellers constantly reuse listings to sell updated versions of their products, with variable results. This is a huge issue with Amazon listings.

OP lets you add an affiliate link to order Graeter's ice cream. There's 20 years of 5-star aggregate reviews and a link to go buy it, so you do. But in year 21, Graeter's changed their all-sugar formula to corn syrup, and now you falsely believe that the aggregated five-star rating is supposed to apply to the corn syrup formula.

If one is designing for a lasting product review, the information needs to be snapshotted at a certain point in time- ie "In 2020, this part number from this company was constructed well." Modern listings may reflect the 2020+ product, rather than the 2020 construction that got the good reviews.

Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

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Post by tupputuppu »

fbn79 wrote: post #149
dumbfounder wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the comparison to Rotten Tomatoes makes sense because you aren't aggregating professional reviews of these products. To me it is just another product review site tackling a niche. But the idea of tracking cost per month is very intriguing (a measure of TCO, which you may want to tackle as well, because for some products that may include electricity usage, upkeep, etc). I think it is something that can t…

I agree with you. It's more like metacritics than rotten-tomatoes

Even metacritic focus is/was aggregating professional critics' scores, although nowadays they have plenty of community reviews as well

Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

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Post by SamBam »

newsclues wrote: post #25
rileyteige wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> average cost per month of ownership Speaking strictly to that, I cannot agree more. This is exactly how I look at purchases, especially larger ones. I'm sure many others think the same way.

As a poor person this is so valuable. Cheap boots are more expensive....

The Samuel Vimes Boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

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Post by Vaslo »

julius wrote: post #28
hubraumhugo wrote: post #2

A 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…

Good idea. Thanks for making that site. I am an asshole. I copy&pasted a fake 5 star review from Amazon, using a fake account. Do you have a plan to stop brands from doing this to you?

Ever try fakespot?

Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

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Post by Lio »

globular-toast wrote: post #124
bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #92

How will you deal with the whole Pyrex vs. pyrex thing?

Similar problem with other brands that have been "diluted" over the years. Elsewhere in the thread someone mentioned Dr Martens who now make shoes in China that are complete garbage quality.

That's true. The original contract manufacturer for Dr Martens, Solovair, is still making their own shoe designs in the same factory in England though.

If you want a nice pair of monkey boots, Solovair are the guys to go and see not Dr Martens.

These are exactly the sort of small manufacturers I like to know about and this is an interesting project to find them.

If you're going to get something once it's nice to find a firm that actually does both the design and the manufacture in their own factories even if you pay a small premium over a generic knock off.

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