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by miguel-muniz 1234 days ago
> Back then i noticed something, it was quite tedious to easily sift and search through knives based on length, steel, brand, and what not to find the knife for me

A lot of hobbies have this same problem. Dunno why there isn't a self-host solution. Something like https://pcpartpicker.com/ but flexible to any type of product/community

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I think the main problem here is the lack of datasets! the most annoying part of this whole project is writing the scraper
There was a post the other day about this concept... open source databases for various datasets.