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One guy bought over 4 thousands LED lamps over years, meticulously measured their actual specs and made a huge online catalog https://lamptest.ru/ https://lampt

One guy bought over 4 thousands LED lamps over years, meticulously measured their actual specs and made a huge online catalog https://lamptest.ru/ https://lamptest.ru/ I follow his project a bit and it looks like consumers are really at loss. Generally there is no reliable way to choose a good led lamp without consulting such catalog. Lamps packaging often lies about actual specs, lamps with the same packaging but manufactured in different years might have different quality etc

leobg 4y ago
Great site. I wish he had an English translation. But I forgive him. This is what the Internet should be! Individual people who do one thing really well. So happy to see that this still exists online.
- walterbell 4y ago
  Could we improve discovery of these indie sites via HN or elsewhere? A standard tag for Algolia/web search could work, if any spam comments with the same tag were flagged.
  - leobg 4y ago
    That would be the benevolent Engelbart version of AI, wouldn’t it? Instead of dumb capitalism, clickbait and silly content marketing driving human activity, to have an AI that saves us from wasting our time figuring out the answer to questions that have been answered long before. And then, instead, points us to those questions that have not yet been asked, much less answered. What experiments have not yet been done. After all, no GPT-4, no matter how many billions of parameters, could tell you what the best battery is in the world if it wasn’t for that one human dude in his garage in Denmark, or Latvia, or wherever, who actually tested them all.
    - walterbell 4y ago
      There have been attempts to reboot webrings for indie site discovery. With AI harvesting and monetizing indie sites, there is some risk of future content being gated by pay/auth/bot walls. Another approach could be private overlay P2P VPNs where participants are invited/vetted by the social contract of a small community. (random indie site: wet/dry shop vacuums, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411206)
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- thuttinger 4y ago
  There is one guy that does the same for batteries, chargers, power supplies and more: https://lygte-info.dk/ https://lygte-info.dk/
  - leobg 4y ago
    Thank you. Had been looking for something like this! Batteries are one of these items where you really don’t know what you’re getting.
  - Self-Perfection 4y ago
    Guess what. Lamptest guy from my comment above tests batteries as well. Here are his websites for this project (same data but different design): https://battest.ru/ https://battest.ru/ https://batterytest.ru/ https://batterytest.ru/
- klabb3 4y ago
  I wish it had a Swedish translation. I do NOT forgive him.

leobg 4y ago

Great site. I wish he had an English translation. But I forgive him. This is what the Internet should be! Individual people who do one thing really well. So happy to see that this still exists online.

walterbell 4y ago
Could we improve discovery of these indie sites via HN or elsewhere? A standard tag for Algolia/web search could work, if any spam comments with the same tag were flagged.
- leobg 4y ago
  That would be the benevolent Engelbart version of AI, wouldn’t it? Instead of dumb capitalism, clickbait and silly content marketing driving human activity, to have an AI that saves us from wasting our time figuring out the answer to questions that have been answered long before. And then, instead, points us to those questions that have not yet been asked, much less answered. What experiments have not yet been done. After all, no GPT-4, no matter how many billions of parameters, could tell you what the best battery is in the world if it wasn’t for that one human dude in his garage in Denmark, or Latvia, or wherever, who actually tested them all.
  - walterbell 4y ago
    There have been attempts to reboot webrings for indie site discovery. With AI harvesting and monetizing indie sites, there is some risk of future content being gated by pay/auth/bot walls. Another approach could be private overlay P2P VPNs where participants are invited/vetted by the social contract of a small community. (random indie site: wet/dry shop vacuums, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411206)
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thuttinger 4y ago
There is one guy that does the same for batteries, chargers, power supplies and more: https://lygte-info.dk/ https://lygte-info.dk/
- leobg 4y ago
  Thank you. Had been looking for something like this! Batteries are one of these items where you really don’t know what you’re getting.
- Self-Perfection 4y ago
  Guess what. Lamptest guy from my comment above tests batteries as well. Here are his websites for this project (same data but different design): https://battest.ru/ https://battest.ru/ https://batterytest.ru/ https://batterytest.ru/
klabb3 4y ago
I wish it had a Swedish translation. I do NOT forgive him.