Original Summary

Background: I needed a desk chair. Three evenings later I had 31 tabs, a spreadsheet comparing warranties, and no chair. The problem wasn't a lack of information. It was that nothing would just tell me what to buy. So, I built TierShop. You type in what you're buying and it gives you three results: the cheapest one actually worth owning, the one most people should buy, and the nice one. Compared on whatever actually differs for that category, chairs on adjustment range and warranty, baby wipes on cost per wipe. Then it commits to one and says why. Three decisions I'd defend: Three results, never more. A fourth card puts you back in comparison mode, which is the thing I was trying to escape. It picks one. "It depends on your needs" is just the original problem in a nicer font. It names a winner and explains the trade-off it made. Sometimes it'll be wrong. I'd rather it be wrong and useful than safe and useless. It refuses. Ask it for houses in LA and it'll tell you a house isn't a product with three tiers and send you to Zillow. That refusal actually broke the app this morning, my code counted "did we get three picks?" before "did it decline?", so a correct refusal looked like a crash. A user found it. Fixed within the hour. Honest state of it: five beta testers, one paying customer (me), and a bug list those testers found that I never would have. Every search reads the live web, which costs me real money per search, so there's no unlimited free tier and no ads; two free searches, then it's a subscription. What I'd actually like: throw a purchase you've been putting off at it and tell me where it's wrong. Especially if it picks something stupid, that's the useful feedback. https://tiershop.net/?ref=rd   submitted by   /u/c23chaos [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/19 20:15:44