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

by crayz on 3/30/10, 12:17 PM with 3 comments

• by crayz on 3/30/10, 12:18 PM

  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

• by brk on 3/30/10, 12:36 PM

  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.