Show HN: Not an original idea, but was good practice. Built it in about 5 weeks.

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Surely this is nothing more than an advert for an amazon (and other) affiliate site? Saying "not an original idea" doesn't give carte blanche to basically spam a site.

Amazon and Thinkgeek are the only two affiliates we work with. I look for stuff all over the internet, Etsy, etc.

How is it any different than any other block that curates content and advertises with affiliates or direct sponsors?

In other news, I got a lot of practice making categorized content which will come in handy for my other projects. I learned a lot about Modified Preorder Tree Traversal in MySQL, which is pretty neat. Sorry to offend, I was excited about building something fun. Have you built anything lately, even just to learn something new?

also, you apparently do work for canonical which pretty blatently used amazon in their unity search for affiliate gain... come on.

This is what Show HN is for. It surfaced some products that I actually want, stuff I wouldn't have found elsewhere. What's wrong with that?

I think your Google ads could be deemed wrongful. They are blended into the content with your social network thingies underneath. An ad is supposed to clearly be an ad. You are going against that in two ways and I don't think it serves you, Google, the advertisers, the social networking thingies or the random site visitor to do it like that.

that's a good point. other similar sites seem to all have a huge "ADVERTISEMENT" text above the ad. will look in to that.

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