Gear Caliber

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Launch tags:

iOS•Web App•Virtual Reality

Launch Team

Raj Gokal

Web3 Infrastructure for Everyone

Maker

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!

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8yr ago

Kesava Mandiga

Wingman (YC S19)

@jadlimcaco @rajgokal Love the idea behind this. Let me take it out for a spin and I'll come back. 👏

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8yr ago

Raj Gokal

Web3 Infrastructure for Everyone

Maker

@jadlimcaco @k3sava spin away! let me know if you end up making a decision on something big you've been thinking about buying!

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8yr ago

Kesava Mandiga

Wingman (YC S19)

@rajgokal You folks had me at first look! Beautiful design and super easy readability. I was looking at the categories and it looks pretty big for a side project. I'd like separate categories for Laptops and Tablets though.

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8yr ago

Raj Gokal

Web3 Infrastructure for Everyone

Maker

@k3sava booya. that design is all @marte47, he's a beast. and yeah it's a big side project :) we have spent way too much time on this thing. Catch us at Workshop Cafe every Tuesday...

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8yr ago

Kesava Mandiga

Wingman (YC S19)

@rajgokal Another one. Search can be better... I just tried searching for Dell XPS and it couldn't find it. Just "XPS" works though.

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8yr ago

Christian Montoya

DIY Wordle

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...

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8yr ago

Raj Gokal

Web3 Infrastructure for Everyone

Maker

@cm0nt0y4 get out of my head. almost all of these are on the backlog! this is a side project for us though, so we just wanted to see if folks would use this enough to support those features. Right now email newsletter (sign up at bottom of the page) isn't filtered, but I totally want to have alerts for categories and/or brands. Filtering by brand has been in the back of my mind, and the category dropdown is probably the oldest piece of the site so due for major refresh. Your feedback is on point!

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8yr ago

Christian Montoya

DIY Wordle

@rajgokal Oh I didn't even notice the email signup. Maybe it should be sticky on the bottom of the page.... Good luck with the project :)

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8yr ago

Raj Gokal

Web3 Infrastructure for Everyone

Maker

@cm0nt0y4 ultimate decision was to leave it for now and not break while these wonderful PH'ers are visiting. But I'll follow up separately and get your feedback on email collection.

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8yr ago

Kesava Mandiga

Wingman (YC S19)

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.

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8yr ago

Raj Gokal

Web3 Infrastructure for Everyone

Maker

Slowly spreading out, turns out it's pretty tough! We have UK and Canada, but will expand if today validates our product idea a bit more.

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8yr ago

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Reviews of Gear Caliber

Keegan J. Sard

Anchor

•7 reviews

Great concept

Agree with others re links for International buyers

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8yr ago

Mischa Armada

•1 review

It would be helpful to see more bulleted descriptions of the necessary, standout stuff I should know off the bat, rather than having to dig. (i.e., Huawei's P10 has a Leica camera.)

Would also be great to have an easy sharing mechanism on the pages.

Aside from that -- well done! Eager to try it out more.

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8yr ago