I want to be able to sort by number of reviews
Thanks for your input, will add this feature to my backlog.
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
#42Any plans for browser extensions to dynamically add these ratings when, say, browsing Amazon?
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#43Looks awesome! I would love to have an RSS feed for new "highly rated" products from this site.
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#44It says this site is 100% free. Is your plan to run it as a public service like Wikipedia or something?
Likely affiliate commission for products. Many of the products are available on Amazon (or other platforms) that will share a piece of the profit if you send them customers.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#45How did you handle difference in personal scale. An A- from two people are not always on same scale. If a person looking at these reviews has an internal scale different from the existing reviews, they may not be making an optimal choice. Sometimes the issue is minimized by simply very large number of reviews..
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#46This is great project. Especially now when there are talks of rights to repair, digital ownership, and planned obsolensence. My only gripe is that the website/service is chock-a-block full of Google stuff which puts me off using it.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#47A 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…
> the longer you own something, the longer you own
> something, the more you save
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#48Cool project. How do you intend to keep ratings aligned with durability rather than “I bought this a few weeks ago and really like it so I’ll give it 5 stars!”?
The weight of the rating will be weighted based on the "years owned" of a review and the trustworthiness score of the reviewer.
> and the trustworthiness score of the reviewer.
Out of curiosity, how resistant is that score to being gamed?
I love the idea for your platform, and would probably be willing to pay some amount for access, if there's a good way to verify that it's not being manipulated.
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#49How do you plan on keeping out fake reviews?
Yeah this is cool, but if it gets any traction I'd expect the fake reviews to quickly make the site useless without a ton of investment into spam detection. Given that Amazon sucks at this as a trillion dollar company with purchase data, I don't have much hope for a new startup or personal project (not sure which it is), but I'd really love to be proven wrong. To be honest I was hoping it was even more like RottenTom…
How does having a "professional critic" only prevent you from getting fake reviews? It could easily be manipulated by companies paying reviewers for biased reviews. Same as sponsored YouTube reviewers.
I think there might be some value in keeping it a niche community with known usernames and maybe moderators. Amazon reviews are not a community, and I think Amazon might not want to fix the issue as bad as we think. In Amazon all the reviews are anonymous and it's not clear at a glance what kind of buyer is giving a review.
Re: Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
#50A 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…
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 truly differentiate, and can appeal to everyone, not just people that are concerned with reducing their environmental footprint.