Gear Caliber

Howdy Product Hunters! Thanks so much @jadlimcaco for hunting! Glad you're a fan. I’m one of the small team of makers. We originally built this tool as a side project for ourselves, but over the last few months we’ve turned it into something others can hopefully enjoy. The inspiration came while shopping for VR, smart phones, drones, home automation devices, etc. and looking for “The Answer” on what to buy, with new gear coming out every week. We were pretty shocked by the number of fake Amazon reviews out there, and learned that a lot of user reviews on the net for consumer products, especially electronics, are heavily gamed and influenced. Add to that the selection bias and lack of cross-product research, and it became clear we wanted to orient our shopping more around professional reviews. This led us to ask, why isn’t there a Rotten Tomatoes for “stuff”? Well now it exists, and we have 10,000+ reviews on hundreds of products. We’re adding new stuff every day, and for each product we summarize all the reviews into a one-page brief and metascore. We’d love your feedback!

This is a very pretty and useful aggregation of gear reviews. Nice to see this kind of information in such an easy to digest format. My only request is that the category dropdown also be added above the new/popular grid on the front page, because once I scroll past the masthead, I don't see the dropdown anymore. (I know it's a faux pas to duplicate content like this, but I think the usefulness is worth it.) I would also love to receive top new aggregations in an email newsletter :) and maybe subscribe to certain categories? Also what if I could filter by brand? Maybe I want to just see all Apple or Samsung products. Also, also, what if I could subscribe to a certain category or brand? I have a lot of ideas I guess...

Most electronics on Amazon.com are available for shipping to India, but it'd be easier if the site could serve links to the user's country of choice. Kind of like what WireCutter does.

Pros:

Beautifully designed and super-easy to browse through! Lists out reviews from popular sites to make picking your next gadget easier.

Cons:

Links only to Amazon.com, so need more options for international users.

Cool concept and design. @rajgokal Can you expound a little bit more on the team that worked on this? Would love to know more about the process. Also, the main feedback I would like to give is that when I first land on the site, it's not clear to me what the site is right away. Looks like a shopping site, but maybe explore concepts about the reviews that you're aggregating and what separates the site. Currently see the percentages but not knowing how you came to that number.

Interesting concept. Having multiple review sources adds ease in getting a feel for a product without doing a lot of google searching. And the site looks good.

It seems like you guys update it often, which is great. I love this rotten tomatoes like experience for stuff. Very cool!

Beautiful, love the design. Also its a great place to find reviews collectively that will help users make informed decisions. Great work guys.