This is a project I've been working on for a few weeks now, and want HN to be the first to try it out. It's a search engine that shows you products highly scored by reddit comments and submissions.
I had the idea by realizing that often when I'm looking to buy a product, I search through reddit to find what is most upvoted and take that into consideration. Now I built a site to do just that.
This is the first public launch of it, and there is still much work to be done. Currently, a historical build of comments is still running (about 250k done out of 500k+) so search performance may be degraded. Also, the mobile site is atrocious, so best experience is currently on desktop.
Looking forward to feedback and constructive criticisms!
Hey all. Inspired by another Show HN a couple weeks ago, and also as a way to showcase what I can do while I looking for dev / data engineering / data science jobs, I built this app looks for new comments and threads on reddit that have links to amazon products and when I find one, display it on the site. Site itself is a Rails app, and the scraper is written in Python.
I don’t have too much data now, it’s only been running for something like 2 weeks, and I haven’t gone back in time yet either, but still fun to look and see what’s being talked about on random subreddits, and I really do see some bizarre product links. Next steps could be looking for other links, like youtube video mentions, or even more general NER trying to get products that aren’t linked, or scraping other sites for Amazon mentions, like here on HN. Let me know what you think.
Hello everyone! I just launched https://follab.app. A platform to collect, organize and analyze customer feedback in order to make better product decisions.
Cool sites - I like this idea of sharing concepts and getting feedbacks. One other larger one is producthunt.co. I'd be curious to see a full list if you happen to do some more competitive research!
I've been looking for something like a combination of these for a while:
- Show HN
- Beta List
It would be great to be able to submit products and get the collective feedback from those reading Hacker News. This is something that Product Hunt is trying to solve but it's still early days. Another interesting inclusion would be Product Hit as they try to crowd source feature requests.
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