Sick of bullshit Google search results? Trust Reddit more, but find sifting through it a pain? RedditRecs collates comments across Reddit and lists monitors by popularity. Skip irrelevant comments and zoom in to the ones you care about.
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This is my first public project since (seriously) learning to code 2 months ago!
I had a bunch of project ideas, but I went with this first because:
1. I personally struggled when I was first researching portable monitors
- Google sucks now with all the bullshit SEO listicles
- I ended up wasting money on a bad one on my first buy
- I do research on Reddit sometimes but it is tedious
2. I noticed others struggling too
- People asking for recommendations on Reddit
- Growing trend of adding "reddit" to Google search results
- I've been using portable monitors as a digital nomad for >2 years
3. I have first-hand experience on what is confusing and what matters when choosing one
- I am somewhat up to date with the digital nomad niche and community
- My hunch is that the portable monitor market will grow as remote work becomes more widespread
4. I had a relatively good idea of how I could put it together
- From playing with LLMs, I already knew how to use it for cheap yet accurate sentiment analysis and data extraction
- A quick check confirmed that Reddit has an API for getting post and comments data, so I knew I didn't have to deal with scraping which can get complex
TLDR: I had a hunch that there'll be demand, that it'll be simple enough for a first project, and that I have an advantage being a user myself
Improvements that I am working on:
- Detect and filter users that may be affiliated with or incentivized to promote certain products
- Fix some instances where newly posted comments aren't captured
- Extract key specs (e.g. screen size) for easier narrowing down
- System for visitors to flag inaccurate data extraction / classification
Let me know what you think!