Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

Re:Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for dur... by SoSoRoCoCo on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @01:14PM (#24710396)

Funny you call out the Fibrox. I don't think full-tang is a prerequisite for BIFL. Why? Because I have my grandmother's kitchen knife from Ireland from the 1910's and it isn't full tang and is still a workhorse despite having the handle replaced sometime in the 70's.

So what is a rating system to do when people have very different ideas on BIFL?

For this existential dilemma, it would be helpful if the top DIMENSIONS of quality were explored. In this case with a knife: tang, bolster, handle material, riveting, metal type, hardness, grind angle, etc are all variables that have either a PREFERENCE scale or a DURABILITY scale. I don't think a simple NoSQL-comment-style database is sufficient to define what elements need to be considered to rank a product as high quality vs. low quality.

You must know about AvE's YouTube channel, yes? He's an engineer who deeply understands metallurgy and machining and industrial design, so he can explore these vectors of quality for power tools:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWv6Pn_zP0rI6lgGt3MyfA

This kind of professional analysis is needed FIRST, to determine what the key metrics are. Then the rating system should grade based on this, rather than 5-stars.

Five star reviews are dead. Long live multiple variables!

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Re:Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for dur... by driverdan on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @02:42PM (#24711269)

That would be great but also very time consuming to do and manage.

> So what is a rating system to do when people have very different ideas on BIFL?

Objective vs subjective is something that's hard to overcome without a complex system like you suggest. I agree it's at the heart of the problem I described and I don't know if there's a practical solution, especially for a side project.

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