[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":513},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-34604281":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":47,"post_text":50,"what":51,"said":83,"maker_in_thread":241,"shape":254,"grid":258,"attempts":477,"same_week":478,"maker_shows":49,"maker_hidden":506,"reader_version":507,"card":508},"34604281","KnifeGeek","Online Database of Pocket Knives","title","Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.knifegeek.io\u002F","knifegeek.io","ICodeSometimes",1675210082,2023,140,88,455,3109,15,"notable","consumer_social","knife database","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"pocket knife database","knife search","edc knives","knife filter","mixed",-0.16,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},9,19,1,17,46,{"design":37,"idea":39,"execution":42,"docs":44,"privacy":45},{"positive":33,"critical":38},11,{"positive":40,"critical":41},6,0,{"positive":41,"critical":43},4,{"positive":41,"critical":41},{"positive":33,"critical":46},2,[33,33,41,48,33,41,49,41,48,48,49,41,33,41,46,33,49,41,49,49,49,41,48,33,33,33,49,33,49,49,49,33,48,33,48,48,49,49,33,49],5,3,"Hey HN!\n\nAbout a year ago i stumbled upon the world of swords, knives, and EDC gear. A weirdly addicting (and expensive) hobby to have.\n\nBack then i noticed something, it was quite tedious to easily sift and search through knives based on length, steel, brand, and what not to find the knife for me. There were some great youtube channels that helped me pick out what i wanted however i had to sit through multiple 30 minute videos just to review 10-15 knives or so each.\n\nRecently i've been having a little trouble sleeping so i decided to pickup a new passion project to work on late at night, here",{"problem":52,"audience":58,"pricing":59,"motivation":63,"time_to_build":58,"stack":67,"openness":80,"stage":81,"team_size":82},{"value":53,"source":54,"evidence":55},"Hard to sift and search knives by length, steel, brand and other specs","maker",[56],{"id":57},"post",null,{"value":60,"source":54,"evidence":61},"Completely free to use",[62],{"id":57},{"value":64,"source":54,"evidence":65},"Hobby interest in knives and a late-night side project",[66],{"id":57},[68,74],{"value":69,"source":54,"evidence":70},"Next.js",[71],{"id":72,"by":11,"text":73},"34607983","Used nextjs so this was Link component weirdness in action. swapped it out now and good to go!",{"value":75,"source":54,"evidence":76},"fp-ts",[77],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},"34608175","also using fp-ts to try out functional programming, it's really perfect for this type of thing, pipe reads really nicely here.","free","launched","solo",{"praise":84,"objections":101,"requests":143,"questions":196,"alternatives":219},[85],{"value":86,"source":87,"evidence":88},"Useful, well-organized database for knife enthusiasts","commenter",[89,93,97],{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"34616957","pencilforhire","I think this is a great idea and looks very cool, I know my wife will look through it she loves knives like these :)",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"34625841","IYasha","As a person who never walks out without one (and, consequently, never relocated to Germany), I approve! :))",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"34604984","jacobsenscott","Cool, a little feedback: Back button is broken, for example search for balisong knives, click on one, click back - your search is gone. Also, suddenly the search stopped working…",[102,113,124,132],{"value":103,"source":87,"evidence":104},"Images look poor, with white aliased borders and transparency issues",[105,109],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"34605228","quaxar","I'm a knife collector, so this site seems cool. One thing that can be improved is how the knives are displayed. The white aliased border around the thumbnails looks really really…",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"34617956","qup","It's better, but I think maybe your browser isn't rendering things the same way mine is, so I took a screenshot for you. There's transparency issues with the knife images, which…",{"value":114,"source":87,"evidence":115},"Search results are sparse or inaccurate, with missing folding knives and wrong data",[116,120],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"34609677","exhilaration","When I search for \"Folding blade\" and blade length \"0-3 in\", I only get 7 results from your site. A similar search on BladeHQ gets me 12,000+ results. I think you have too few…",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"34610826","dsr_","First check: Spyderco R C67 Result: Spyderco R C67 GFP shows up, but not the original knife or any of the other variants. --- Second check: Benchmade mini AFCK Result: found…",{"value":125,"source":87,"evidence":126},"Forced login after advanced searches is jarring and unexplained",[127,131],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"34605115","jehb","Forcing me to create an account after a certain amount of interaction without explaining what the account is for, or providing any information about how my personal data will be…",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},{"value":133,"source":87,"evidence":134},"Links and open-in-new-tab do not work on results",[135,139],{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"34605321","nabilhat","A small friction point is that middle click, ctrl-click, and right-click \u002F open in new tab are all unavailable to access details for a knife. If I wanted to compare a few…",{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"34605674","theelous3","Being unable to middle mouse click knives to open new tabs is a usability dealbreaker for me. Wrap the image with links, not binding awkward events. It'll also reduce your load a…",[144,155,167,178,189],{"value":145,"source":87,"evidence":146},"Metric unit option, now added",[147,151],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"34605450","Loranubi","Please add a option to display metric units instead.",{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"34608189","animal531","Can we get a converter so that we don't have to use imperial units?",{"value":156,"source":87,"evidence":157},"Filter by lock type, opener type, and folding\u002Ffixed",[158,162,166],{"id":159,"by":160,"text":161},"34604961","E39M5S62","Neat! I'd love to be able to filter by lock type - is that something you've considered?",{"id":163,"by":164,"text":165},"34609102","duckworth","As a longtime pocketknife enthusiast one search criteria I would love to see is a way to filter by rear Flipper, Thumbstud or Thumb Hole opener. I spent an hour last week trying…",{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},{"value":168,"source":87,"evidence":169},"Shareable URLs with search parameters in the URL",[170,174],{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"34611068","Zak","A permalink option would be great. More generally, putting search parameters in the URL would be great, for basic browser features like open-in-new-tab, bookmark, etc....…",{"id":175,"by":176,"text":177},"34605192","amluto","On that note, search results don’t appear to be real links, so built-in open-in-new-tab functionality doesn’t work.",{"value":179,"source":87,"evidence":180},"Dropdown menus for filter values",[181,185],{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"34608118","ajvs","Dropdown menus instead of text input boxes would help, I'm a newbie to this world so I'm not sure what to search for.",{"id":186,"by":187,"text":188},"34606868","alexwasserman","I’m not much of a knife guy but have a couple and know what I’m looking for feature wise, less so on specific steel types. But, proper drop downs would help a lot, I can’t always…",{"value":190,"source":87,"evidence":191},"Multiple photos per knife",[192],{"id":193,"by":194,"text":195},"34609199","Yizahi","Speaking about images, please try to add multiple photos for each knife to show every angle. Great site, thanks for your effort.",[197,208],{"value":198,"source":87,"evidence":199},"How was the database built and what stack is used",[200,204],{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},"34606763","fbdab103","How did you build the database? Were you able to piggy back off of existing efforts or did you go vendor to vendor, scraping your way? Journey of a thousand miles and all that,…",{"id":205,"by":206,"text":207},"34611773","mailjenil","I want to get similar website for other hobbies. I am good at getting the dataset but I am weak at web development. Whats the stack behind website? Is there an easy way I can…",{"value":209,"source":87,"evidence":210},"Would the site cover multitools or other hobbies like flashlights",[211,215],{"id":212,"by":213,"text":214},"34608793","xrayarx","Playing around with the site, for me the search was also broken at some point. Unfortunately it was not reproducible for me. On another note I sadly miss multitools",{"id":216,"by":217,"text":218},"34605654","wkat4242","It'd be great if there was this for flashlights too. I know there's candlepower forums etc but it's hard to really find what I'm looking for. There's so much on the market.",[220,224,228,235],{"value":221,"source":87,"evidence":222},"BladeHQ",[223],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},{"value":225,"source":87,"evidence":226},"Knifecenter",[227],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},{"value":229,"source":87,"evidence":230},"Looria",[231],{"id":232,"by":233,"text":234},"34609950","hubraumhugo","Adding to this: Getting people to write reviews on your own platform will be hard, but there are a ton of knife enthusiasts on Reddit and we've aggregated their opinions on…",{"value":236,"source":87,"evidence":237},"Parametrek flashlight database",[238],{"id":239,"by":172,"text":240},"34611042","There is: http:\u002F\u002Fflashlights.parametrek.com\u002F",{"comments":242,"answered":243,"key":244},29,7,[245,248,251],{"id":246,"text":247},"34607933","This made me laugh quite a bit, took over an hour to do that hover thing and i felt fancy for it too. I just removed it as i agree it looks a little shoddy",{"id":249,"text":250},"34607929","> The white aliased border around the thumbnails looks really really bad, and really turns me off from staying on the site. That is completely fair, looking into ways to improve…",{"id":252,"text":253},"34620284","Actually i've got the price data all in the DB but was just worried it would get out of sync pretty often and since i've only got a few sources. 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