Whether you're doing research on products, looking for alternatives to ingenuine reviews on e-commerce sites, or conducting a last-minute check before hitting "order", Reviewside helps by displaying reviews from other sites, right where you need them.
@laura_nagyova Great question! This is exactly the concern I had when I look at reviews on Amazon.
I pull reviews directly from 3rd party sites. I rushed to finish MVP before Black Friday so it only supports YouTube, CNET, and Wirecutters now. The reviews I pulled are the exact same reviews you would get if you search the product on those sites.
Obviously, it can't detect how biased are the reviews on those sites. However, I realized if I cross check from multiple review sites, or see a video demo from a buyer instead of promo materials from the seller, I would be more confident in the product.
Hi Product Hunt, and thanks @katmanalac for hunting!
I made Reviewside as a side project after frustration with the research process during Amazon’s Prime Day. I found myself constantly switching between YouTube and Amazon while conducting product research. Although Amazon provides plenty of reviews for each item, I found that many reviews seemed ingenuine or contained too much irrelevant information. I realized I was wasting too much time combing through the reviews to dig out information that I wanted. At this point, a single high quality third-party YouTube product review would have been able to influence my purchase decision.
Eventually, I concluded that minimizing buyer remorse is best done through aggregation of information from many third-party reviews. To make the process more streamlined and to help more people like me before Black Friday craziness, I would like to share it with everyone.
Here is how it works:
- Highlight the product name on any website
- Right click and select “Find reviews”
- Extension will display reviews on the right hand side of the page
The current version is a MVP and only supports YouTube, CNET, and Wirecutter integrations. A few other features I’m currently thinking about (using GPT-3):
- Semantic feature search/summarization of each review source
- Grid-like feature comparison across different products
- Embed these features into smaller E-Commerce sites for more product review coverage
Would love to hear your thoughts! Please share any feedback you have here, or reach out directly at hwjwill@berkeley.edu!
Reviewside is awesome!! I've used it a couple times already while online shopping, and it saves time looking for reviews. Really excited to see where this goes in the future, especially filtering reviews using AI
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