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from the faq: 3) How do you find these products? Most of the products on our site are hand picked. We sometimes use automated tools to search Reddit for product links, and only import the awesome ones.

that's boring. i was expecting some sort of algorithmic awesomeness, just pasting the amazon urls of things you see on reddit into a website is not especially novel.

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I'm the opposite, and I find this a fine example of 'doing things that don't scale'. It works, it shipped, in a weekend. The fancy stuff can wait.

It's a perfectly fine business decision. It works and it shipped, which is an awesome way to make money. I'm not trying to take anything away from the product here, but there isn't anything interesting about it. I feel like the bar for a show HN post should be a bit higher than a template for amazon referral links.

That feature would definitely be on the roadmap if I keep working on it. Would be really fun to build. But I decided to just start small, and see if this is something people might actually use.

So you've just built a site so you can collect referral fees?

Well, yeah, that's the idea. I just thought it would be cool if there were a site that could show me T-Shirts for all of my favorite bands and TV shows, and it grew from there.

I'm really keen to write a chat app in Go this weekend which matches up similar Reddit users based on common subreddits. I was thinking to host it at chat.youshouldbuythese.com, and use that to drive traffic to the site.

Now that it's been a week, would you be willing to post a followup? What did you learn? How's the ROI? Any surprises?

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