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nerdponx on Jan 20, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Diskprices.com makes $5k/month with affiliate mark...

Diskpriced has a lot of organic popularity because it actually is extremely useful. The lesson here has nothing to do with UI design. There is real value in aggregating, cleaning, and providing structured access to information that helps people make decisions.

ilrwbwrkhv on Jan 20, 2024 [–]

Excel sheets as a service

ethbr1 on Jan 21, 2024 | [–]

Continually updated Excel sheets as a service.

The use case (buying cheap disks) requires currently-accurate information, which naturally maps to this sort of service.

ilrwbwrkhv on Jan 22, 2024 | | [–]

I'm sure there is something like this already right?

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