https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mbtrillaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 01 May 2026 13:22:44 +0000I run a free comparison site in a different vertical, and the "publishes its losses" line is what made me click. Methodology page on a niche aggregator earns its keep two ways: readers can check you didn't just rank things by vibes, and it's about the only piece of content that holds up once AI summaries start chewing through your other pages. Question I keep coming back to though: how often do you actually update the methodology vs quietly nudge it? The discipline of versioning a formula is harder than writing it, because when a result comes out wrong the temptation to move the threshold instead is huge.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:49:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909564mbtrillahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909564https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909564My experience matched this almost too closely. Had a comparison-aggregator side project sitting at maybe 20% done for over a year. I'd open it once a month, scroll through the still-need-to-do list, get tired, close the tab. Pairing with Claude for a couple of weekends got me past the half-built wall. The thing that surprised me wasn't raw speed. It was that I stopped having to spend an hour reloading my own old code into my head before I could do anything. That re-entry tax is what always killed it for me. The hype is annoying but the people dunking on these tools mostly aren't using them for the boring stuff they're actually decent at.

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