AI-Reviewer (buyforlife)
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AI-Reviewer (buyforlife)
Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3
buyforlife.comHow HN took it
8 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Idea: 4 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 5 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful summaries and good hands-on results for known products
From 3 comments
Looked at a few products I'm familiar with, and it appears you're doing pretty damn well at summarizing the high and low points for them. Nice work, bookmarked. It's pretty rare…
tyingq on HNThis is awesome and love the site. Especially with Amazon’s fake reviews issue, this is very much needed
hstan4 on HNGreat work! I'm a person that thinks of every purchase in terms of amortization, or my periodic cost for lifetime, this suits me!
Cd00d on HN
Clever badges and cost-per-period amortization view
From 2 comments
Great work! I'm a person that thinks of every purchase in terms of amortization, or my periodic cost for lifetime, this suits me!
Cd00d on HNAnyone have any insight into elapse time on the waiting list for GPT-3 access?
ibejoeb on HN
Objections
Lifetime cost estimates appear arbitrary
From 1 comment
Not really related to the GPT-3 thing, which seems cool, but a point of confusion and / or criticism: > if warranty = lifetime, then price/expected lifetime The #4 item showing…
bscphil on HN
Scraping reviews without credit raises ethical concerns
From 1 comment
Looks cool, but I do think there are ethical concerns with "scraping" reviews other people write and then not giving them credit. It reminds me of a talk I watched where a guy…
dealforager on HN
Summaries replace personal judgment with black-box recommendations
From 1 comment
>Summarizing product reviews Dont know about you, but I dont give a flying F about random peoples reviews regurgitated by black box machine learning. When I buy something I…
rasz on HN
Requests
Links to original reviews per bullet
From 2 comments
It would be good to have links to the original reviews which were used for bullet points.
fsflover on HNPossibly, the parent commenter is looking for per-bullet links? (I'd want that as well.)
CharlesW on HN
Amazon.ca affiliate or regional links
From 2 comments
This is fantastic. Could you please provide alternative shopping links? Amazon.com links don’t resolve for Amazon.ca customers
fudged71 on HNRight. But for those Amazon affiliate links can you also provide an Amazon.ca affiliate link?
fudged71 on HN
Statistical fake review detection
From 1 comment
Looks awesome and good job on hands-on demos. Is it possible to extend it to run statistical analyses to spot fake reviews without third party tools or at least discrepancies and…
Bancakes on HN
B2B version for company reviews
From 1 comment
Is anyone selling (or open sourcing) a solution like this? I would love to feed our company's reviews into a program that could generate a bulleted list like this to summarize…
_adamb on HN
Questions
What the target bullet lists were for GPT-3 training
From 1 comment
Really well done. What are you using as a target for GPT-3? I see where you got the reviews, but where do you get the bulleted lists to learn from?
jarbus on HN
How the lifetime estimates are calculated
From 1 comment
Not really related to the GPT-3 thing, which seems cool, but a point of confusion and / or criticism: > if warranty = lifetime, then price/expected lifetime The #4 item showing…
bscphil on HN
Cost of prompts for summarizing many reviews
From 1 comment
Multiple things to think about here: 1. For summarizing, in my experience GPT-3 still has some ways to go. It gets it right a lot of the times, but when it misses, it misses bad.…
nutanc on HN
Alternatives named
Wirecutter and GearLab review sites
From 1 comment
Hey HN! Finding and researching good products can be very time-consuming and frustrating. Every time I want to buy a product, I waste hours reading reviews and researching the…
hubraumhugo on HN
Fakespot for detecting fake Amazon reviews
From 1 comment
Hey HN! Finding and researching good products can be very time-consuming and frustrating. Every time I want to buy a product, I waste hours reading reviews and researching the…
hubraumhugo on HN