Ask HN: Is there any interest in a “curated” online store?

Re:Ask HN: Is there any interest in a “curated” online store? by brudgers on Saturday July 04, 2020 @08:51AM (#23731909)

If I want a filing drawer from Office Depot, I can just go to the Office Depot website. And if I want an oven mitt from Walmart, I can just go to Walmart. By which I mean that there's not much curation going on because at the scale of everything from filing mitts to oven drawers there can't be.

Curation of oven-mitt offerings means that there's someone who is obsessed with oven-mitts sorting through all the different offerings. If it scales it isn't curation.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any interest in a “curated” online store? by TravisSc6tt on Saturday July 04, 2020 @09:45AM (#23732129)

I see what you're saying, but I'm not curating products--I'm curating online stores on which users can then find products. Does that make sense?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any interest in a “curated” online store? by brudgers on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:32AM (#23732447)

I understand what you are doing. It makes sense in the sense that it's easy. And it makes sense in the sense that there are a myriad of webscraping "middleman" services so there's probably a business there.

However, to me, it's not curation in a meaningful sense because big box stores sell the same white label oven mitts from the same factories as Amazon. And for oven mitts and filling drawers fakes aren't a problem when purchasing from Amazon.

It's not clear to me, what problem it would solve. But I wish you all success.

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