ThingsOnReddit
Web and SaaS
affiliate product discovery
SHOW HN2017
153points
68comments
#246of 2,242 in 2017
Top 11%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
14 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 13 critical, out of 50 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Idea: 7 for, 5 againstExecution: 6 for, 4 againstDesign: 0 for, 3 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clever idea and clean execution
From 3 comments
Hey, this is awesome! You literally built a product I specifically asked for here in a thread here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15002985 (it’s idea #2). Great…
dsacco on HNThis is stinkin' amazing. Great idea and nice implementation.
terrble on HNThis is a clever site. Nicely done! I can't help but laugh at London's best, though: https://i.imgur.com/HWgujDq.png
arjie on HN
Good UI and UX
From 2 comments
This is not nearly a direct copy of your product. This one features a well designed UX that immediately engages and encourages further exploration. Yours made me bounce in 2…
johnwheeler on HNThis is stinkin' amazing. Great idea and nice implementation.
terrble on HN
Objections
Amazon affiliate content rejection risk
From 3 comments
I'd be curious to see the success of this with Amazon Affiliates, since it is nearly a direct copy of a site I made 2 months ago (that Amazon shut down due to lack of original…
kfriede on HNour site was also rejected from amazon affiliate a couple times due to the same problem, eventually we changed the content and get passed, I wrote a medium post for that,…
guohuang on HNgreat idea, while we were doing toptalkedbooks.com, my partner and I were thinking about doing the exact same thing for our next project. Nice UI, good execution, good luck! just…
guohuang on HN
Keyword search and curation are weak
From 2 comments
I searched for laptop (as suggested) and got webcams and other stuff, doesn't really seem curated at all?
Moter8 on HNThe keyword searching was really bad, agreed. Akin to trying to search on Craigslist with ads having a giant list of keywords in them.
kfriede on HN
Some product picks look poor or off-topic
From 2 comments
The top product on cooking page [1] shows the folly of using reddit for product recommendations... [1] https://thingsonreddit.com/things/r/Cooking?page=1&order_by=score
kruipen on HNThe first link I clicked on was from a comment where the author was giving an example of what _not_ to buy because it's wildly overpriced for what it does. Hopefully that's not…
BugsJustFindMe on HN
Mobile navigation is clumsy
From 1 comment
Great idea and execution. You're probably building a nice passive income product. The user experience on mobile is a bit clumsy. I would recommend putting some work into that.…
chatmasta on HN
Vulnerable to product placement gaming
From 1 comment
In the age of product placement I'd be extremely worried about redditors gaming the site to promote their products. Cool site though.
ben_jones on HN
Requests
Support more retailers beyond Amazon
From 1 comment
Yes, amazon dominates the product links, so it was easiest to start with that. In the future though, I'd love to add more.
brudolph on HN
Add time-period filtering
From 1 comment
This would be interesting if it wasn't just live. Eg, if I could select a time period to show the most popular stuff from. Also a better way of discovering subs to browse, rather…
chillydawg on HN
Show prices more clearly
From 1 comment
As someone who frequents /r/watches, I appreciate this. But it would be great to see prices more easily highlighted.
kilroy123 on HN
Group multiple products from one post
From 1 comment
Multiple products in a post should be grouped. There's a few pages where all the products are from a single highly upvoted post
waiseristy on HN
Fix pagination
From 1 comment
Your pagination has stopped working
Giorgi on HN
Questions
Is it Amazon-only?
From 1 comment
Does this link are of amazon products only?
techaddict009 on HN
What is the tech stack and build time?
From 1 comment
Very cool! Congrats on shipping! What's your tech stack? How long did it take you to build this,starting from the idea to build and launch i.e. deploying code to…
justboxing on HN
How are product images retrieved?
From 1 comment
Very nice idea and execution. Btw, how do you get the main product image url to display on your site? Is there an api for that?
kidproquo on HN
Alternatives named
HackerNewsBooks
From 2 comments
Another for books: http://hackernewsbooks.com/ (Not affiliated, just where I took some pointers from)
kfriede on HNSocial Media product links are the new ToDo App: http://hackernewsbooks.com/ http://www.dev-books.com/ http://toptalkedbooks.com/ http://reddittopbooks.com/tech/
awb on HN
TopTalkedBooks
From 2 comments
http://toptalkedbooks.com is another one for books
guohuang on HNSocial Media product links are the new ToDo App: http://hackernewsbooks.com/ http://www.dev-books.com/ http://toptalkedbooks.com/ http://reddittopbooks.com/tech/
awb on HN
Takcek
From 1 comment
Some other similar sites with niches: books- https://takcek.com laptops- http://www.laptophits.com
msnangersme on HN
LaptopHits
From 1 comment
Some other similar sites with niches: books- https://takcek.com laptops- http://www.laptophits.com
msnangersme on HN
fastandes
From 1 comment
I'd be curious to see the success of this with Amazon Affiliates, since it is nearly a direct copy of a site I made 2 months ago (that Amazon shut down due to lack of original…
kfriede on HN