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For a weekend project this looks and feels very polished. Possible suggestions: it looks like it is 'just' retrieving one's list of subscribed subreddits then…",{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},"7079694","ecesena","I have a Reddit account but no subreddits. The result is a \"Sorry, we couldn't find any products!\". I'd recommend a fallback... it may be not personalized, but at least it gives…",{"value":57,"source":46,"evidence":58},"Reddit users",[59,60],{"id":49,"by":50,"text":51},{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},{"value":62,"source":63,"evidence":64},"Earns Amazon referral fees on product links","maker",[65],{"id":66,"by":11,"text":67},"7079909","Well, yeah, that's the idea. 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Funny that half my recommendations I already have.",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"7081088","macarthy12","Had the exact same project on my todo list! Validate my idea :-)",[124,132,136,143],{"value":125,"source":109,"evidence":126},"Products are manually curated, not algorithmic",[127,131],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"7079391","notatoad","from the faq: 3) How do you find these products? Most of the products on our site are hand picked. 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