Ask HN: Feedback on a "weekend project" - funny Amazon reviews

by crayz • 16 years ago

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crayz2• 16 years ago

I whipped up a site to collect all the best funny/parody Amazon reviews. There seems to be something of an ad hoc community who've been posting parody, facetious or just plain caustic reviews on Amazon for years, and it seemed worth gathering them up in one place (with some basic voting/commenting/etc). And of course, hopefully make a few bucks off referral links

I'd be happy to hear some feedback, positive and negative, from HN people. Thanks

brk• 16 years ago

Your site brought something to my attention in that these reviews can be humorous when you stumble across them unexpectedly, but when they are all gathered up at once they become sort of "meh" overall.

This has nothing to do with your site specifically, but when reading the first dozen or so, I became very bored with the content and not really compelled to return. A lot of them seemed to be trying too hard to be funny. Perhaps your concept of a voting system to bring the very best ones to the top would alleviate this somewhat.

crayz2• 16 years ago

Yeah, I'm aware this is a bit of a problem, but it seems an inescapable aspect of the format (maybe I'm just not thinking creatively enough about UI, though)

Anyhow, thanks for the feedback. This was sort of a trial run for shaking off my coding rust :)

Ask HN: Feedback on a "weekend project" - funny Amazon reviews

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