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Show HN: I built a site to track your buy it for life items

by nahtnam on 6/8/24, 11:22 PM with 12 comments

Hey HN,

I've been on a mission to buy higher quality, sustainable products, especially when replacing things I use frequently. To better understand the value of these items, I built a site to track how often I use them. Here is my list so far: https://www.costperuse.com/@nahtnam

Feel free to sign up and share the items that have served you well! https://www.costperuse.com/

You can also generate a sharable link for X (Twitter), complete with an open-graph image of your stats. Example: https://x.com/nahtnam/status/1797875287793004947

If there's interest, I have plenty of ideas to improve the site. With enough data, I aim to create lists of the best BIFL (Buy It For Life) items in various categories.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

  • by tithe on 6/8/24, 11:25 PM

    Consider defining or showing a few examples on the landing page describing exactly what a "buy-it-for-life" item is.

    I'm not sure if you mean items I'll be buying until death (like soap, toothpaste, and socks), or things I buy once and expect them to last for a lifetime.

    I see the "ZSA - Moonlander" example, but I'm unsure how to interpret what I'm seeing: "Hours" means how long I've had this particular item? And for what I paid for it, "Cost per hour" is just that.

    Congratulations on the launch!

  • by ttyprintk on 6/10/24, 4:07 AM

    I would use this for appliances. Repair info, sources for parts, maybe videos. Is the “buy it for life” community mostly for smaller purchases?

  • by apsurd on 6/9/24, 2:55 AM

    there's no way to buy the product though. seems like that's the ultimate conversion metric?

  • by dilliwal on 6/9/24, 5:59 AM

    can't signup, redirects me to localhost. liked the concept