I have recently discovered macros on google sheets. With an option of scheduling them in the cloud and simplicity of writing them, even with my limited coding skills , it allows me to put together pretty complex dashboards.
But the system is certainly conducive to "pump and dump" - whatever the NFT equivalent is called. A malicious actor can just artificially inflate the prices (by trading between different accounts, no money switching hands) and sell whenever a moron comes along and places a bid.
People who want to make a pizza as good as Jeff's. I found this page over ten years ago and my pizzas are rightly famous among friends. I'm always happy to point them at the source for the information.
^ this. I was excited to try it out, but there is no wayI create an account just to take a quick look. I am 99% sure this will not work for me and my team, but I wanted to just check, maybe show it to my team. This needs no registration demo.
Misleading. It’s just a hole in a wall to another apartment that is abandoned. If you make a hole in a wall behind your bathroom mirror, you will actually find yourself in another apartment, this is how it works.
Reviews and rankings are broken across the industries. For products I usually start my journey at NYT Wirecutter https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/.
I was also recently looking for a place at Apartments.com, as I learned all places get 5 star ranking to start, and it’s of course not clear at all in the UX. I think at the moment google maps does pretty good job with rankings.
I'm finding Wirecutter to be less-than-useful, though. There's the question marks around their funding model, but the deeper problem is their "the best X" format. It requires setting up a very specific rubric that tends to favor Cadillac models, and leaves you with very little information to go on if you don't have Cadillac needs.
Concrete example: I recently bought a new office chair. My shopping process involved a lot of reading reviews and a lot of sitting in actual chairs. The chair I ended up with, an Ikea Långfjäll, wasn't even considered by Wirecutter because it lacks a lot of adjustability features. But there are a lot of truly independent reviews (by which I mean, people talking on Web forums or mentioning the chair they use on their personal blogs) with the general consensus being, "This chair is fantastic if it fits your body and you don't need/want all the bells and whistles." A couple people even said they happily switched to it from an Aeron chair or similar. Which describes me well enough, insofar as my office was supplying me with Herman Miller love up until the pandemic hit.
So, all in all, I'm loving this chair. But, if I were constrained to the Wirecutter "The best X" format, I wouldn't include it, either, because its lack of adjustability means it just won't be suitable for lots and lots and lots of people.
The funding model is extremely sus. I used to trust them but your criticisms are right on, and their 'the best x' lists have a curious tendency to prioritize brands that already have high ad spend, rather than surface little known indie choices.
The possible saving grace of their funding model is that, even if the manufacturer itself doesn't have an affiliate program, they can probably still get some sort of affiliate link through Amazon or Wal-Mart.
That said, there's just no amount of "not actually sketchy" that will prevent this sort of revenue model from seeming sketchy. Hard not to wonder if there are small Internet-only companies that only sell direct-to-consumer who are being shut out of independent reviews, or are feeling pressure to give them a cut in order to avoid being cut out.
