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I’d love to build some kind of front end, “plain” website that allows to purchase from a number of established online vendors, but uses their APIs or affiliate
by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I’d love to build some kind of front end, “plain” website that allows to purchase from a number of established online vendors, but uses their APIs or affiliate interfaces and strips away all the dark pattern evil. At one point that more or less described Amazon, but they’ve been using some amount of that too.
- Liquix 7y agoSome amount? Amazon is rife with dark patterns! Amazon's choice, default "featured" search order, inability to filter certain categories by price, childish refusal to sell Google/Apple/<any competitor big enough to actually compete> devices, Prime walled gardens, etc...
- i_am_nomad 7y agoYou’re right, though Amazon’s dark patterns are more back-end, operations-level practices - I really meant the web interface. Even still, that has dark patterns embedded in it, like the refusal to sort by price you mentioned.
- ativzzz 7y agoCraigslist is the one site that comes to mind that matches your description. Looking at their jobs page I see this: > a tech nirvana, no VCs, MBAs, sales, marketing, biz dev, or pivoting Looks like the trick is to ignore capitalism and avoid hiring businessmen that focus exclusively on growth. But would a company like CL survive being created today? Is it only effective because it's been around so long and has the network effect compounded over many years? Your idea about the plain version of Amazon sounds neat on paper. But of course the question is, how is it going to compete against Amazon?