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The website is supposed to be crowdsourced. I want users to create accounts and upload their own products that they trust. The only products on the site right now are the ones I've been able to co-sign myself. My mum even added some products on the site that she's found to be super reliable.

I don't really want to just pull data from some third party and flood the website with products I or other people haven't actually recommended

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Put yourself in the shoes of someone arriving at your website for the first time. What reason do they have for signing up an account and adding products to your database? A product like this needs an incentive, a hook.

Sometimes that incentive is financial. Sometimes it’s prestige through points, votes or badges. Sometimes it’s power through moderation rights. What’s yours?

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