<story><title>Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products</title><url>https://www.buyforlifeproducts.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>driverdan</author><text>I like the concept but since it&amp;#x27;s open to the public it will suffer from ignorance.&lt;p&gt;For example, take the Salomon Quest boots that are listed. I own a pair of them. While they&amp;#x27;re good boots for the price they do not deserve an A- score. They are not BIFL. The soles are glued making them not resoleable. The sole on one of mine has started coming unglued too.&lt;p&gt;The same can be said for the Victorinox Fibrox knife that has an A+ rating. I also have one of those. It&amp;#x27;s a great knife for its low price but it does not deserve an A+ since it isn&amp;#x27;t full tang and is very thin and easy to damage.&lt;p&gt;This is a common issue with &amp;quot;BIFL&amp;quot; discussions. People overrate something because they don&amp;#x27;t understand that parts will wear out from use, something isn&amp;#x27;t repairable, or they don&amp;#x27;t have experience with a higher quality item.&lt;p&gt;Do you have any thoughts for dealing with this issue?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>floatrock</author><text>Op can&amp;#x27;t avoid this problem if following the reviews-masquerading-as-affiliate-marketing pattern.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s needed is to turn it all upside down: rather than reviewing new products, review &lt;i&gt;broken&lt;/i&gt; products.&lt;p&gt;Make a site about how things break -- review broken and worn-out products to teach how to identify cheap products (where are the stress points, what manufacturing techniques exist to alleviate those). Then compare those with used products well past their warranty period that &lt;i&gt;haven&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; broken, and look at why they haven&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;Repairability also comes to mind. Everything breaks eventually -- can&amp;#x27;t cheat entropy -- but when it does, can you easily repair it? Right-to-repair movement would get in on the action.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products</title><url>https://www.buyforlifeproducts.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>driverdan</author><text>I like the concept but since it&amp;#x27;s open to the public it will suffer from ignorance.&lt;p&gt;For example, take the Salomon Quest boots that are listed. I own a pair of them. While they&amp;#x27;re good boots for the price they do not deserve an A- score. They are not BIFL. The soles are glued making them not resoleable. The sole on one of mine has started coming unglued too.&lt;p&gt;The same can be said for the Victorinox Fibrox knife that has an A+ rating. I also have one of those. It&amp;#x27;s a great knife for its low price but it does not deserve an A+ since it isn&amp;#x27;t full tang and is very thin and easy to damage.&lt;p&gt;This is a common issue with &amp;quot;BIFL&amp;quot; discussions. People overrate something because they don&amp;#x27;t understand that parts will wear out from use, something isn&amp;#x27;t repairable, or they don&amp;#x27;t have experience with a higher quality item.&lt;p&gt;Do you have any thoughts for dealing with this issue?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noxToken</author><text>Another thing is product revisions. Version 1 might be an actual BIFL product. Version 2 might have a small yet significant revision impacting quality. Even process revisions like offloading part of the manufacturing process or a different part supplier can impact the longevity of a product.</text></comment>