Show HN: RedditPicks – get most recommended products from Reddit community

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2 points by jakelazylion 2 years ago | 2 comments

Hi HackerNews Community!

I wanted to share a side project I've been working on that stemmed from a personal frustration. Like many of you, I often find myself searching online for product recommendations, like the best iPhone 15 case or the ideal running shoes for beginners. However, I consistently run into the issue of Google delivering click-bait web pages that don't really answer my questions.

To tackle this, I've built a simple yet effective solution. Essentially the tool aggregates and analyzes relevant Reddit posts to summarize the most recommended products from the community.

The process works offline, which means there's a slight delay in generating a full report. However, I'm working on enhancing the speed and efficiency.

I personally find this tool very useful that saves me tons of time on search for products. Please let me know if you have any suggestions, any feedback would be highly appreciated.

Jemaclus 2 years ago |

It's a cool idea, but I'd prefer to browse myself rather than receive an email :)

I am very interested in your methodology here, though. Are you using the Reddit API or scraping the pages? How do you determine what is a product recommendation? Do you determine quality of the recommendation (eg, "Product X is awesome" vs "Product X sucks")?

jakelazylion 2 years ago | |

Thanks for the feedback! Though currently it's a little slow, let me try to make it realtime.

Reddit allows you to get json format of each post. Basically I'm not doing anything smart, just sort products by total upvotes, which I find quite helpful.